"You can't get a hotel in Odessa for less than three hundred dollars," ERCOT's general counsel, Bill Magness, said.
The campaign's outside general counsel, Bill Canfield, said he believed that fewer than 10 planes were involved and that the amount to be reimbursed was "in five but not six figures".
But following questions from The New York Times, the Perry campaign's outside general counsel, Bill Canfield, said late Monday night that the campaign would re-examine the issue by seeking "the formal opinion of outside counsel" who has both election law and aviation experience.
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In defence of a system where government, military, security or police lawyers are allowed to rely on secret evidence untested by public or journalistic scrutiny – or even disclosure and argument with a victim and counsel – the bill's proponents misrepresent our current law.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges of New York, the lead bankruptcy counsel, has billed about $1.6 million and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, also of New York, which serves as litigation and tax counsel, has billed Global Crossing more than $600,000, people close to the company said.
Mr. Hyman, Netflix's general counsel, says the bill lets people opt in to continual sharing by giving their affirmative consent — or to choose not to share at all.
Mr. Cardozo's office of the corporation counsel has been billed nearly $679,000 for the months of November and December, bringing the total to $1,372,040.
At a news conference in Battery Park, Mr. Bloomberg was asked if he would ask the city's corporation counsel to challenge the bill, thus using public resources to protect his right to spend his private resources.
Asked why most of the Republicans in the Legislature again voted against the bill, Michael Deegan, counsel to the Republican caucus, said they relied on the opinion of state Supreme Court Justice Allan Winick, who ruled last year the Legislature did not have the authority to divest the Town of Hempstead of zoning powers and give them to the village.
Peter Taylor, the committee's general counsel noticed that the bill did not limit the amount or location of the lands that the Pequots could buy with the settlement funds.
