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As we previously reported, on June 26, 2013, in the case of U.S. v. Windsor, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) – which defined “marriage” as “only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife” and “spouse” as only “a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife” – was unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment.
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As we previously reported, on June 26, 2013, in the case of U.S. v. Windsor, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) – which defined “marriage” as “only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife” and “spouse” as only “a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife” – was unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment.
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If your landlord intends to sell or refinance the building in which you lease space, you will most likely first hear about it when you receive a letter requesting that you sign and deliver what’s called an Estoppel Certificate to the landlord, the prospective purchaser and/or the proposed new lender (either for a refinancing of a loan by the landlord or for a new loan to the prospective purchaser).
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Over the past five years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and UK-based Reckitt Benckiser, a leading rodenticides manufacturing company, have been battling over the Agency’s efforts to remove Reckitt’s popular “D-Con” brand products from retail stores.
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Providing outstanding legal services and counsel depends upon the clear, concise and timely transfer of information between client and attorney, or between attorneys representing different clients. Over the last decade, email has become the most commonly-used - and generally most efficient - method of exchanging information. Unfortunately, during that same period, email has in some instances served as a serious obstacle to achieving the goal of effective communication.
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