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  • In re Miller

    Publication Date: 2017-08-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-08-25
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leslie Conrad, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Petitioner.
    for defendant: Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Paul M. Roadarmel, Jr., Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Allison H. Chung, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.
    Case Number: No. B278902

    Evidence insufficient to show that aider and abettor acted with reckless indifference to human life (Baker, J.)

  • Kennedy v. Bremerton School District

    Publication Date: 2017-08-28
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Constitutional Law | Employment Litigation
    Industry: Education
    Date Filed: 2017-08-23
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Ronald B. Leighton, District Judge, Presiding Before: Dorothy W. Nelson, Milan D. Smith, Jr., and Morgan Christen, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rebekah Ricketts (argued) and Benjamin D. Wilson, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Dallas, Texas; Daniel S.J. Nowicki, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Palo Alto, California; Jeffrey Paul Helsdon, Oldfield & Helsdon PLLC, Fircrest, Washington; Hiram Sasser and Michael Berry, First Liberty Institute, Plano, Texas; Anthony J. Ferate, Ferate PLLC, Edmond, Oklahoma; for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Michael B. Tierney (argued) and Paul Correa, Tierney & Blakney P.C., Seattle, Washington, for Defendant-Appellee.
    Case Number: No. 16-35801

    High school football coach had no First Amendment right to engage in public prayer at football games (M.D. Smith, J.)

  • United States v. Walter-Eze

    Publication Date: 2017-08-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: Legal Services | Health Care
    Date Filed: 2017-08-25
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: R. Gary Klausner, District Judge, Presiding Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Circuit Judge, and Carol Bagley Amon,* District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ellen R. Meltzer (argued), Special Counsel; Joanna K.W. Bowman, Alexander F. Porter, and Blanca Quintero, Assistant United States Attorneys; Sung-Hee Suh, Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Leslie R. Caldwell, Assistant Attorney General; Fraud Section, Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: David J. Bernstein (argued), Law Office of David Jay Bernstein PA, Deerfield Beach, Florida, for Defendant-Appellant.
    Case Number: No. 15-50315

    Conflict between counsel's interest and client's interests did not warrant presumption of prejudice (Amon, J.)

  • August 25, 2017 | New York Law Journal

    Attorneys Say 'Martoma' Does Little to Settle Insider Trading Concerns

    The Second Circuit's split decision in an insider trading case 'United States v. Martoma' was a clear win for attorneys at the DOJ and SEC. But it may not put to rest uncertainty over the nature of relationships that may create liability under securities law.

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  • Center for Biological Diversity v. Mattis

    Publication Date: 2017-08-22
    Practice Area: Environmental Law | Civil Procedure
    Industry: Defense | Federal Government
    Date Filed: 2017-08-21
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Edward M. Chen, District Judge, Presiding Before: Ferdinand F. Fernandez, Mary H. Murguia, and Paul J. Watford, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sarah Burt (argued) and J. Martin Wagner, Earthjustice, San Francisco, California, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
    for defendant: Mark R. Haag (argued), Peter Kryn Dykema, and Andrew C. Mergen, Attorneys; John C. Cruden, Assistant Attorney General; Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Jonathan C. McKay, Office of General Counsel, Department of the Navy, Washington, D.C.; Phillip J. Riblett, Office of the Legal Adviser, United States Department of State, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellees.
    Case Number: No. 15-15695

    Non-profit environmental organization had standing to challenge government's approval of new military base in Okinawa (Murguia, J.)

  • August 18, 2017 |

    Judge Follows Suit in Ordering Google to Comply With Warrant

    Following suit with two other federal district court judges, U.S. District Judge Juan Sánchez of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Thursday…

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  • People v. Button

    Publication Date: 2017-08-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-08-17
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathleen A. Kenealy, Acting Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland, Assistant Attorney General, Arlene A. Sevidal and Christine Yoon Friedman, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Allison L. Ehlert, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number: No. D070341

    No need for Boykin-Tahl advisement regarding stipulation that has potential impact on future sentencing decisions only (Aaron, J.)

  • August 17, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Pa. Judge Follows Suit in Ordering Google to Comply With Warrant

    U.S. District Judge Juan Sanchez's ruling is another rebuke of a controversial ruling by the Second Circuit last year in favor of tech companies that warrants under the Stored Communications Act cannot reach outside the United States.

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  • Skulason v. California Bureau of Real Estate

    Publication Date: 2017-08-17
    Practice Area: Privacy | Criminal Law | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Date Filed: 2017-08-16
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for Plaintiff and Respondent: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, Kathleen A. Kenealy, Acting Attorney General, Diane S. Shaw, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Lisa W. Chao, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Stephen Lew, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Nhan T. Vu, Deputy Attorney General.
    for defendant: Counsel for Defendant and Appellant: Kelly A. Woodruff, Farella Braun + Martel LLP, Aviva J. Gilbert, Farella Braun + Martel LLP.
    Case Number: No. A147047, A147814

    Bureau of Real Estate had no mandatory duty to remove from website publicly available information about licensee's dismissed misdemeanor convictions (Humes, P.J.)

  • August 16, 2017 | Litigation Daily

    The Arbitration Fight You Didn't Know Was Happening—And that Skadden Is Winning

    For all the attention being paid these days to mandatory arbitration of consumer financial disputes, there's another unlikely battleground: roof shingles. Seriously.

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