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  • P.M.B. v. Ridgefield Bd. of Educ.

    Publication Date: 2019-12-23
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure | Education Law
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellants: Gerry A. McMahon, The Law Offices of Gerry McMahon, LLC, Danbury, Connecticut.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellee: Linda L. Yoder, on the brief, Peter J. Murphy, Shipman & Goodwin LLP, Hartford, Connecticut.
    Case Number: 19-1131-cv

    Connecticut Statute's 45-Day Filing Limit Applies to Federal Appeals Under the IDEA

  • Chacon v. Gribble

    Publication Date: 2019-12-09
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Kelly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 03-18-00737-CV

    J.L.C. was born in 2016 and within months, the Attorney General filed a petition to establish the parent-child relationship, alleging appellee mother's then-husband and the presumed father was not the biological father and that appellant, with whom appellee had an extra-marital relationship, was the biological father.

  • Matter of Motors Liquidation Co. v. General Motors LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-12-03
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy | Contractual Disputes | Damages
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Dennis Jacobs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellants: Gregory W. Fox, William P. Weintraub (on the Brief), Goodwin Procter LLP, New York, New York.
    for defendant: For Appellees: Richard C. Godfrey, Andrew B. Bloomer (on the Brief), Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, Illinois. Erin E. Murphy, C. Harker Rhodes IV (on the Brief), Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, District of Columbia. Arthur J. Steinberg, David M. Fine, Scott I. Davidson (on the Brief), King & Spalding LLP, New York, New York.
    Case Number: 18-1940

    New GM Did Not Contractually Assume Claims for Punitive Damages Based on Old GM's Conduct

  • U.S. ex rel. Kraus v. Wells Fargo & Co.

    Publication Date: 2019-11-27
    Practice Area: Banking and Finance Laws
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Federal Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Chief Judge Robert Katzmann
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellants: James J. Sabella, Sharad A. Samy, Kyle J. McGee, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, New York, and Tejinder Singh, Goldstein & Russell, P.C., Bethesda, Maryland, on the brief, Jay W. Eisenhofer, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, New York.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellees: Stephen G. Rinehart, on the brief, Amy Pritchard Williams, Troutman Sanders LLP, Charlotte, North Carolina. For the United States, Amici Curiae: Joseph H. Hunt, Assistant Attorney General, Richard P. Donoghue, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Charles W. Scarborough, Joshua M. Salzman. For Amici Curiae Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System: Richard M. Ashton, Joshua P. Chadwick, Yvonne F. Mizusawa, Katherine A. Pomeroy. For Amici Curiae Federal Reserve Bank of New York: Meghann E. Donahue, Michele Kalstein. For Amici Curiae Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond: Keith Goodwin, Gregory J. Ewald.
    Case Number: 18-1746

    Federal Reserve Banks Are 'Agents' of U.S. Under 31 USC §3729(b)(2)(A)(i)

  • Paxton v. Escamilla

    Publication Date: 2019-11-18
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Government
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Baker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 03-18-00346-CV

    Appellee, the Travis County Attorney, received a Public Information Act request for each deferred prosecution agreement his office executed in domestic-violence cases since 2015.

  • State Of Texas v. City Of Double Horn

    Publication Date: 2019-11-11
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure | Government
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Baker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 03-19-00304-CV

    The State of Texas complained that the trial court erred in denying its petition for leave to file an information in the nature of quo warranto, seeking to invalidate and void the incorporation of the City of Double Horn for failure to comply with statutory requirements for incorporation and to remove the officers of the City of Double Horn from office.

  • In Re Bertucci

    Publication Date: 2019-11-04
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Goodwin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 03-19-00245-CV

    The probate court denied relator's motion to exclude the court appointed auditor's report based on his exceptions to the report and ruled that the report was "conclusive as to the accounts stated therein."

  • Davis v. Morath

    Publication Date: 2019-10-28
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Civil Appeals | Education Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Triana
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 03-18-00377-CV

    Appellants, who are teachers employed with the Dallas Independent School District, filed a collective grievance challenging their appraisals under the DISD's newly adopted teacher-appraisal system, which the Commissioner of Education dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.

  • State Of Texas v. Pena

    Publication Date: 2019-10-21
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Baker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 03-18-00765-CR

    Appellee was charged with possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine and filed a motion to suppress evidence.

  • Dulin v. State Of Texas

    Publication Date: 2019-10-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law | Damages
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Kelly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 03-18-00523-CR

    A jury found appellant guilty of one count of indecency with a child, nine counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child, one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14, and one count of "super" aggravated sexual assault of a child.