• February 17, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Shooting at Runaway Driver Not Excessive Force, Court Rules

    Holding that the law isn't clear as to whether shooting at a suspect fleeing in a vehicle is acceptable, a federal appeals court nonetheless upheld

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  • February 14, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

    6 Candidates Trump Wants to Place on the Fifth Circuit Set for Vetting

    President Donald Trump is wasting no time making a big impact on the Texas federal judiciary as a special committee is beginning the process of interviewing at least six of his candidates f

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  • Kramer v. Kastleman, 14-1038 (TexApp Dist 01/27/2017)

    Publication Date: 2017-02-08
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-01-27
    Court: Supreme Court of Texas
    Judge: EVA M. GUZMAN JUSTICE
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 14-1038

    ON PETITION FOR REVIEW FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD DISTRICT OF TEXAS Argued September 13, 2016 JUSTICE GUZMAN delivered the opinion

  • February 7, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Constraints on a Federal Magistrate Judge in Civil Litigation

    Because it is common for federal civil cases to be assigned to both a district judge and a magistrate judge, this article examines the roles a federal magistrate judge can—and cannot̵

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  • Arizona Dream Act Coalition v. Brewer

    Publication Date: 2017-02-06
    Practice Area: Immigration Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-02-02
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: David G. Campbell, District Judge, Presiding Before: Harry Pregerson, Marsha S. Berzon, and Morgan B. Christen, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karen Tumlin (argued), Shiu-Ming Cheer, Nicholas Espiritu, Linton Joaquin, and Nora A. Preciado, National Immigration Law Center, Los Angeles, CA; Tanya Broder, National Immigration Law Center, Oakland, CA; Jorge Martin Castillo and Victor Viramontes, Mexican American Legal Defense Educational Fund, Los Angeles, CA; Rodkangyil Danjuma, ACLU Foundation of Northern California, San Francisco, CA; Lee Gelernt and Michael K.T. Tan, American Civil Liberties Union, New York, NY; James Lyall and Daniel J. Pochoda, ACLU of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; Jennifer C. Newell and Cecillia D. Wang, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Immigrants' Rights Project, San Francisco, CA; Kelly Flood, ASU Alumni Law Group, Phoenix, AZ, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
    for defendant: Dominic Draye (argued) and John Robert Lopez, IV, Arizona Attorney General's Office, Phoenix, AZ; Timothy Berg, Sean Hood, and Douglas C. Northup, Fennemore Craig P.C., Phoenix, AZ, for Defendants-Appellants.

    Case Number: No. 15-15307

    Cite as 17 C.D.O.S. 1086 ARIZONA DREAM ACT COALITION; CHRISTIAN JACOBO; ALEJANDRA LOPEZ; ARIEL MARTINEZ; NATALIA PEREZ-GALLEGOS; CARLA CHAVARRIA; JOSE R

  • Raequel L. Graham v. Charlesetta Jones

    Publication Date: 2017-02-03
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPELLATE DIVISION, FOURTH DEPARTMENT
    Judge: Whalen, P.J., Smith, Centra, Peradotto, and Carni, JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 15-01907

    Osborn, Reed & Burke LLP, Rochester (Jeffrey P. Dipalma of Counsel for Defendant-Appellant.Dolce Panepinto, P.C., Buffalo (Anne M. Wheeler of Counsel), for Plaintiff-Respondent.

  • February 2, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

    SCOTUS Nomination Came Just in Time for Hardiman's Court

    President Donald Trump, a practiced showman, built up suspense in the lead-up to the televised announcement of his nomination for the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. D. Brooks Smith, chief

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  • February 1, 2017 | Litigation Daily

    New Year, New Job: Top Lateral Litigator Moves in January

    Nothing like a fresh start for the new year. Prominent litigators around the country made lateral moves this month, including a 23-lawyer group to launch Drinker Biddle’s off

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  • January 30, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Eyes Shift to Hardiman as Trump Prepares His Supreme Court Pick

    As President Donald Trump prepares to announce on Tuesday night his nominee to fill the late Justice Antonin Scalia's seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, all eyes in Pennsylvania

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  • Microsoft v. United States, 14-2985

    Publication Date: 2017-01-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: Federal Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Katzmann, C.J., Acobs, Cabranes, Pooler, Raggi, Hall, Livingston, Chin, Lohier, Jr., Carney, Droney, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Microsoft Corporation: Robert M. Loeb and Brian P. Goldman, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York, NY; Guy Petrillo, Petrillo Klein & Boxer LLP, New York, NY; James M. Garland and Alexander A. Berengaut, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC; Bradford L. Smith, David M. Howard, John Frank, Jonathan Palmer, and Nathaniel Jones, Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA; on the brief, E. Joshua Rosenkranz, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.
    for defendant: For Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York: Serrin Turner, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief, Justin Anderson, Assistant United States Attorney, New York, NY. For Amici Curiae Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, American Civil Liberties Union, The Constitution Project, and Electronic Frontier Foundation, in support of Appellant, Brett J. Williamson, David K. Lukmire, Nate Asher, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, New York, NY; Faiza Patel, Michael Price, Brennan Center for Justice, New York, NY; Hanni Fakhoury, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA; Alex Abdo, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY. For Amicus Curiae Apple, Inc., in support of Appellant: Kenneth M. Dreifach, Marc J. Zwillinger, Zwillgen PLLC, New York, NY and Washington, DC. For Amici Curiae BSA | The Software Alliance, Center for Democracy and Technology, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, The National Association of Manufacturers, and ACT | The App Association, in support of Appellant: Andrew J. Pincus, Paul W. Hughes, Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, DC. For Amicus Curiae Anthony J. Colangelo, in support of Appellant: Steven A. Engel, Dechert LLP, New York, NY. For Amici Curiae AT&T Corp., Rackspace US, Inc., Computer & Communications Industry Association, i2 Coalition, and Application Developers Alliance, in support of Appellant: Alan C. Raul, Kwaku A. Akowuah, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, DC. For Amicus Curiae Ireland: Peter D. Stergios, Charles D. Ray, McCarter & English, LLP, New York, NY and Hartford, CT. For Amici Curiae Amazon.com, Inc., and Accenture PLC, in support of Appellant: Peter Karanjia, Eric J. Feder, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, New York, NY. For Amici Curiae Verizon Communications, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., eBay Inc., Salesforce.com, Inc., and Infor, in support of Appellant: Michael Vatis, Jeffrey A. Novack, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, New York, NY; Randal S. Milch, Verizon Communications Inc., New York, NY; Kristofor T. Henning, Hewlett-Packard Co., Wayne, PA; Amy Weaver, Daniel Reed, Salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, CA; Orin Snyder, Thomas G. Hungar, Alexander H. Southwell, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY; Mark Chandler, Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA; Aaron Johnson, eBay Inc., San Jose, CA. For Amici Curiae Media Organizations, in support of Appellant: Laura R. Handman, Alison Schary, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Washington, DC. For Amici Curiae Computer and Data Science Experts, in support of Appellant: Philip Warrick, Klarquist Sparkman, LLP, Portland, OR. For Amicus Curiae Jan Philipp Albrecht, Member of the European Parliament, in support of Appellant: Owen C. Pell, Ian S. Forrester, Q.C., Paige C. Spencer, White & Case, New York, NY. For Amicus Curiae Digital Rights Ireland Limited, National Council for Civil Liberties, and The Open Rights Group, in support of Appellant: Owen C. Pell, Ian S. Forrester, Q.C., Paige C. Spencer, White & Case, New York, NY; Edward McGarr, Simon McGarr, Dervila McGirr, McGarr Solicitors, Dublin, Ireland.

    Case Number: 14-2985

    Cite as: Microsoft v. US, 14-2985, NYLJ 1202777615376, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided January 24, 2017)CASE NAMEMicrosoft Corporation, Appellant v. United States of Am