• Commonwealth v. Karagiannis

    Publication Date: 2023-08-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Carbon County
    Judge: Judge Nanovic
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 1038 CR 2020

    Defendant appealed his sentence arguing there was insufficient evidence to support his convictions for unlawful contact with a minor. The court found there was sufficient evidence for the jury to infer that defendant had verbal and non-verbal contact sufficient to support his convictions. The court noted that defendant's acquittal on the underlying substantive offenses did not weaken the sufficiency of evidence to support the unlawful contact convictions.

  • Berkelhammer v. Voya Institutional Plan Serv. LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-08-21
    Practice Area: Discovery
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: U.S. District Court for Connecticut
    Judge: District Judge Garcia
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 3:22-mc-00099

    Court Denies Motion to Compel Where Information Sought was Not Relevant to Underlying Action

  • Compagnie des Grands Htels d'Afrique S.A. v. Starman Hotel Holdings LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-08-21
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew S. Dupre, Sarah E. Delia, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE; David Spears, Cynthia Chen, Zacharia Chibane, Spears & Imes LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: David E. Ross, S. Michael Sirkin, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jeffrey L. Willian, Devora W. Allon, Gilad Y. Bendheim, Patrick J. Gallagher, Vera C. Esses, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: 1:18-cv-00654-SB-SRF

    Court dismissed complaint seeking to pierce corporate veil where plaintiff failed to present evidence that parent and subsidiary failed to observe corporate formalities.

  • In Re: Proton Pump Inhibitors Prod. Liab. Litig.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-21
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Manufacturing | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas G. Macauley, Macauley LLC, Wilmington, DE; Martin Bienstock, Bienstock PLLC, Washington, D.C. for plaintiff.
    for defendant: James J. Freebery, Daniel J. Brown, Makenzie Windfelder, Hayley J. Reese, Chelsea A. Botsch, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Arthur E. Brown, William Hoffman, Matthew Douglas, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY; Amy K. Fisher, Katherine D. Althoff, Carolyn E. Riggs, Ice Miller LLP, Indianapolis, IN; Philip A. Rovner, Jonathan A. Choa, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sherry Knutson, Tucker Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL; Craig A. Thompson, Venable LLP, Baltimore, MD for defendants.

    Case Number: N17C-07-001 PPI

    Plaintiff brought the underlying personal injury action against defendants alleging that defendants were responsible for developing, manufacturing, marketing, and distributing proton pump inhibitor products that were unsafe, defectively designed, lacked proper warnings, and were unfit to be marketed and sold in the United States. Defendants individually and collectively moved to dismiss the claims. Plaintiff brought the case as administrator of a health care plan directly and as subrogee of its members' claims for a variety of injurie

  • Clark v. United States

    Publication Date: 2023-08-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Justice Freeman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Louise Arkel, Evan J. Austin, and Rahul K. Sharma (Office of Federal Public Defender)
    for defendant: Mark E. Coyne and Steven G. Sanders (Office of the United States Attorney)

    Case Number: 21-2704

    Defendant Wishing to Challenge Remedy for Granted §2255 Motion Obligated to Obtain Certificate of Appealability

  • State v. O'Donnell

    Publication Date: 2023-08-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Rabner
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leo J. Hurley, Jr. (Connell Foley, attorneys; Leo J. Hurley, Jr., of counsel and on the briefs, and Alexa C. Salcito and Brian K. Dempster, on the briefs)
    for defendant: Angela Cai, Deputy Solicitor General (Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General, attorney; Angela M. Cai, Jeremy M. Feigenbaum, Solicitor General, and Jennifer E. Kmieciak, Deputy Attorney General, of counsel and on the briefs)

    Case Number: A-17-22 (087023)

    Candidate Could Be Charged with Official Bribery Even Though They Lost Election

  • United States v. Teijeiro

    Publication Date: 2023-08-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Duncan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-10227

    Appellant pled guilty to possession of child pornography.

  • Pittman v. State of Texas

    Publication Date: 2023-08-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Valenzuela
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 04-21-00376-CR

    Appellant Andell Pittman was sentenced to 20 years in prison with credit for time served after a jury found him guilty of burglary of a habitation with intent to commit assault.

  • In the Matter of Featherston

    Publication Date: 2023-08-21
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Parker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 07-22-00375-CV

    The parties were married in 2015 and had one child.

  • Edmiston v. Borrego

    Publication Date: 2023-08-21
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Barksdale
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-50102

    John Robert Schubert, Jr. was arrested after he placed a series of irrational phone calls.