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  • Chinese American Civil Alliance of Greater New York v. Adams

    Publication Date: 2024-10-02
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Joseph F. Bianco
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant: Joshua P. Thompson, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, California, on the brief, Glenn E. Roper, Pacific Legal Foundation, Highlands Ranch, Colorado.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellees: Claude S. Platton and Deborah A. Brenner, on the brief, Philip W. Young, for Hon. Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, New York, New York. For Intervenors-Defendants-Appellees: Janai S. Nelson, Samuel Spital, Rachel Kleinman, and Kevin Jason, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., New York, New York; Jin Hee Lee and Molly M. Cain, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Washington, District of Columbia; Sarah Hinger, American Civil Liberties Union, New York, New York; Stefanie D. Coyle, Arthur Eisenberg, and Emma Hulse, New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York; Francisca D. Fajana, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, New York, New York; Elizabeth A. Ritvo, Brown Rudnick LLP, Boston, Massachusetts; John G. Doyle, Brown Rudnick LLP, Washington, District of Columbia; Caitlin Felise C. Ramiro and Samuel J. Hickey, Brown Rudnick LLP, New York, New York, on the brief, Michaele N. Turnage Young, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Washington, District of Columbia.
    Case Number: 22-2649

    Court Erred in Finding Aggregate Disparate Impact by SHS Policy Not Shown

  • Green Meadows Housing Partners, LP et al v. Macon-Bibb County

    Publication Date: 2024-10-01
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Cobb, Michael Eber, Cameron Roberts, (Caplan Cobb LLP), Atlanta, Harold Melton, Charles Peeler, Thomas Reilly, Dominyka Plukaite, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: K. Cooke, (Gautreaux Law, LLC), Macon, Michael McNeill, (Macon-Bibb County Attorney’s Office), Macon, for appellee; Michael Lambros, (The Lambros Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A24A0693

    Court reverses ex parte order and vacates nuisance findings in a County's public-nuisance case against apartments, and affirms that Civil Practice Act applies to nuisance abatement actions

  • Katuwal v. Kafle

    Publication Date: 2024-09-30
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure | Contractual Disputes
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Wallach
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 02-23-00404-CV

    Ferguson International owned a convenience store that received a loan from the Small Business Administration.

  • In the Interest of A. E., a Child

    Publication Date: 2024-09-24
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michelle Gopman, (Office of the DeKalb County Public Defender), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Calandra Harps, Christopher Carr, Bryan Webb, (Senior Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, Nathan Hayes, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Lytia Brown, Joshlynn Clark, (Brown Geiger & Associates), Atlanta, for appellee; Ronald Richards, (The Law Office of Ronald M. Richards & Associates, LLC), Decatur, for other party.
    Case Number: A24A1018

    Court reverses juvenile court's order that granted temporary custody of a minor child to DFCS, citing insufficient evidence of parental unfitness, and remans case for an evidentiary hearing

  • Dial v. Burge

    Publication Date: 2024-09-23
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Todd Harding, (Attorney at Law), Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: LeAnne Cooper, (Petrelli Previtera, LLC), Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0885

    Court reverses dismissal of petition for child support modification based on alleged income loss where petition was filed within an exception of the two-year limitation in OCGA § 19-6-15 (k) (2)

  • In the Matter of J.H.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Wise
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 14-22-00894-CV

    In 2021, appellant engaged in delinquent conduct by committing aggravated robbery with a firearm on two occasions.

  • In the Int. of R.R.A.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-23
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Poissant
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 14-22-00217-CV

    In March 2020, the children at issue were removed from appellant's care due to homelessness and his positive methamphetamine tests.

  • McClelland v. Katy Indep. Sch. Dist.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-23
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Contracts | Education Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Wise
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 14-22-00432-CV

    Appellant, a high school football player, was disciplined for making a racially charged video and later for possessing marijuana.

  • U.S. v. Suquilanda

    Publication Date: 2024-09-23
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Criminal Law | Immigration Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Eunice C. Lee
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellee: Jane Y. Chong, on the brief, Won S. Shin, Assistant United States Attorneys, for Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellant: S. Isaac Wheeler & Allegra Glashausser, Federal Defenders of New York, Inc., New York, NY, on the brief, Erwin Chemerinsky, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA.
    for defendant: For Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Justice Strategies, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, Legal Aid Justice Center, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, and National Immigration Law Center, amici curiae in support of Defendant-Appellant: Nicholas D. Espiritu, Los Angeles, CA & Max S. Wolson, Washington, DC, National Immigration Law Center; Ghita Schwarz, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, New York, NY. For Legal Service Providers and Immigrant Rights Organizations, amici curiae in support of Defendant-Appellant: Ann Garcia, Khaled Alrabe, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, Washington, DC; Charles Roth, National Immigrant Justice Center, Chicago, IL. For Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Human Rights First, and Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, amici curiae in support of Defendant-Appellant: Michele A. McKenzie, McKenzie Scott PC, San Diego, CA. For Critical Race and Nation Studies, and Professor Eric Fish, amici curiae in support of Defendant-Appellant: Alexander G. Tievsky, Edelson PC, Chicago, IL, for the Center for Immigration Law and Policy, the Aoki Center. For Dr. S. Deborah Kang, amicus curiae in support of Defendant-Appellant: Philip L. Torrey, Crimmigration Clinic, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA. For Immigration Scholars, amici curiae in support of Defendant-Appellant: Amanda Valerio, Washington, DC & Alexia D. Korberg, Melina Meneguin Layerenza, Patrick McCusker, New York, NY, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.
    Case Number: 22-1197-cr

    Defect in NTA Did Not Strip Immigration Court of Jurisdiction to Order Initial Removal

  • In re Krystal Christon

    Publication Date: 2024-09-23
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Johnson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 10-24-00158-CV

    The parties' final decree of divorce included a residential geographic restriction to Bezos County, Montgomery County or a contiguous county imposed upon the mother who was granted the exclusive right to designate the primary residence of the child.