• People v. Vasquez

    Publication Date: 2017-09-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-08-29
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland, Assistant Attorney General, Eric A. Swenson, Lynne G. McGinnis and Kristine Alton Gutierrez, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Carl J. Fabian, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. D069298

    Prejudicial error to allow victim's handwritten "timeline" of alleged sexual abuse to be displayed at trial (Aaron, J.)

  • Jane Doe, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Lt. Gen. Franklin Lee Hagenbeck, Brig. Gen. William E. Rapp, Defendants-Appellants, United States of America, Defendant, 15-1890-cv

    Publication Date: 2017-09-01
    Practice Area: Litigation | Civil Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Wesley, Livingston, and Chin, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellee for Jane Doe: Rebecca Ojserkis, Jonas Wang, Erin Baldwin, Kathryn Wynbrandt, Bethany Li, Michael J. Wishnie, Veteran Legal Services Clinic, Jerome M. Frank Legal Services Organization, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellants for Lt. Gen. Franklin Lee Hagenbeck and Brig. Gen. William E. Rapp.: Christopher Connolly, Benjamin H. Torrance, Assistant United States Attorneys, New York, NY, for Joon H. Kim, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Amici Curiae for Amici Curiae Federal Courts and Constitutional Law Professors, in support of Jane Doe.: Caitlin J. Halligan, Joel M. Cohen, Casey K. Lee, Kathryn M. Cherry, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY. For Amici Curiae University Administrators, in support of Jane Doe.: Paul W. Hughes, Travis Crum, Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, D.C. For Amici Curiae Former Military Officers, in support of Jane Doe.: Penelope A. Preovolos, Ben Patterson, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA. For Amici Curiae National Veterans Legal Services Program, Protect Our Defenders, Service Women's Action Network, in support of Jane Doe.: John D. Niles, James Anglin Flynn, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, D.C. For Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union, American Association of University Women, Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic at the City University of New York School of Law, Human Rights Watch, National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence, National Women's Law Center, in support of Jane Doe.: Sandra S. Park, Steven Watt, Lenora M. Lapidus, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY.

    Case Number: 15-1890-cv

    Former West Point Cadet's Sexual Assault Liability Suit Stymied by Second C

  • August 31, 2017 | Litigation Daily

    Litigators of the Week: Grabbing the Prize After the Prize Fight

    Floyd Mayweather's defeat over Conor McGregor wasn't the only boxing win worth talking about this past week—lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers scored a total knockout of dozens of class actions brought over a 2015 bout dubbed the “Fight of the Century.”

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  • Quinault Indian Nation v. Pearson

    Publication Date: 2017-08-31
    Practice Area: Native American Law | Tax
    Industry: Retail | State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-08-29
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Benjamin H. Settle, District Judge, Presiding Before: M. Margaret McKeown, Consuelo M. Callahan, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rob Roy Smith, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, Seattle, Washington, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
    for defendant: Robert E. Kovacevich, Spokane, Washington; Randal B. Brown, Covington, Washington; Aaron L. Lowe, Spokane, Washington; for Defendants-Appellants.

    Case Number: No. 15-35263 No. 15-35267

    Sovereign immunity barred defendant's counterclaims against Indian tribe (McKeown, J.)

  • 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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