• People v. Echavarria

    Publication Date: 2017-08-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-08-03
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland, Assistant Attorney General, A. Natasha Cortina and Meagan J. Beale, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Allison H. Ting, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. E065257

    Juror misconduct mandated reversed of murder conviction (Miller, J.)

  • Watson v. United States, 16-655

    Publication Date: 2017-08-04
    Practice Area: Immigration Law | Civil Rights
    Industry: Federal Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Katzmann, Ch.J., Jacobs, and Livingston, C.J.J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee Davino Watson: Robert J. Burns on the brief, Mark A. Flessner, Holland & Knight LLP, Chicago, IL.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant United States of America: Varuni Nelson, James R. Cho, and Elliot M. Schachner on the brief, Joseph A. Marutollo, for Robert L. Capers, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY. For Amici Curiae National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild; American Immigration Council, in support of Davino Watson: Trina Realmuto, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, Boston, MA; Mary Kenney, American Immigration Council, Washington, DC.

    Case Number: 16-655 (L)

  • Watson v. USA, 16-655

    Publication Date: 2017-08-04
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Katzmann, Ch.J., Jacobs, and Livingston, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee Davino Watson: Robert J. Burns on the brief, Mark A. Flessner, Holland & Knight LLP, Chicago, IL.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant United States of America: Varuni Nelson, James R. Cho, and Elliot M. Schachner on the brief, Joseph A. Marutollo, for Robert L. Capers, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY. For Amici Curiae National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild; American Immigration Council, in support of Davino Watson: Trina Realmuto, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, Boston, MA; Mary Kenney, American Immigration Council, Washington, D.C.

    Case Number: 16-655

    Wrongly Detained U.S. Citizen's FTCA Claim Untimely; Government Did Not Act With

  • August 2, 2017 | New York Law Journal

    The Coming Religion Wars

    Civil Rights and Civil Liberties columnist Christopher Dunn writes: Amid the tumult engulfing the White House and Congress, one easily loses sight of ominous developments emanating from the third branch of government. But the judiciary has been busy, and civil rights and civil liberties are under assault on many fronts. One of those fronts is the separation of church and state.

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  • Virginia Properties v. T-Mobile, 16‐2973

    Publication Date: 2017-08-02
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Constitutional Law
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom | Construction
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Calabresi, Pooler, C.JJ., and Vilardo, D.J.1
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff‐Appellant Virginia Properties, LLC: Seth L. Levine, Christos G. Papapetrou, on the brief, Kenneth E. Lee, Levine Lee LLP, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendant‐Appellee T‐Mobile Northeast LLC: Darren W. Johnson, on the brief, Roberta Kaplan, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY. Also on the brief: Daniel C. Folchetti, Law Office of Lori D. Fishman, Tarrytown, NY, for Third‐Party Defendants‐ Cross‐Defendants‐Cross‐Claimants‐Appellees Innovative Engineering, Inc.; Patrick W. Brophy, McMahon, Martine & Gallagher, LLP, Brooklyn, NY, for Third‐Party Defendants‐Cross‐Defendants‐Cross‐Claimants‐Appellees Skyline Steel Fabricators & Erectors, Inc. For Appellee KMB Design Group, LLC: Joyce E. Boyle, McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP, New York, NY.

    Case Number: 16‐2973

    Second Circuit Junks $700K Sanctions Order Against Pla

  • In the Matter of I.F.M., 14-15-00781-CV (TexApp Dist 07/18/2017)

    Publication Date: 2017-08-02
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-07-18
    Court: Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourteenth
    Judge: JOHN DONOVAN, JUSTICE
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 14-15-00781-CV

    The state charged IFM, a 15-year old minor, with theft of property from a department store. A jury returned a verdict of "true." The trial court then conducted a disposition hearing and ent

  • August 1, 2017 | National Law Journal

    Most Memorable Footnote? Here's What a Few Lawyers Told Us.

    A federal agency brief that a Washington judge threw out recently might be memorable for what the court called "excessive" footnotes—48 of them, stretching hundreds of lines. We asked a few veteran U.S. Supreme Court and appellate lawyers to share the footnotes that, for them, have stood the test of time.

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  • Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. v. Superior Court (Prime Healthcare La Palma, LLC)

    Publication Date: 2017-08-01
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Dispute Resolution | Civil Procedure | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care | Insurance
    Date Filed: 2017-07-31
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Gregory N. Pimstone and Joanna S. McCallum for Petitioners.
    for defendant: No appearance for Respondent.King & Spalding, Marcia Augsburger and W. Scott Cameron for Real Parties in Interest.

    Case Number: No. B272284

    Trial court lacked jurisdiction to confirm partial arbitration award (Small, J.)

  • International v. Lufkin, 12-15-00223-CV (TexApp Dist 07/12/2017)

    Publication Date: 2017-08-01
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-07-12
    Court: Court of Appeals of Texas, Twelfth
    Judge: JAMES T. WORTHEN, CHIEF JUSTICE
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 12-15-00223-CV

    Manufacturer Lufkin Industries purchased the Express Solution, a software package for business operations, from appellant IBM. However, several tests of the software failed, pushing back the impleme

  • USA v. Huertas, 15-4014

    Publication Date: 2017-07-31
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Winter, Jacobs, and Pooler, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellee: with Marc H. Silverman, on the brief, Alina P. Reynolds, for Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, New Haven, CT.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellant: Jennifer Mellon, for Terence S. Ward, Federal Defender, District of Connecticut, New Haven, CT.

    Case Number: 15-4014

    Suppression's Denial Upheld; Defendant Never Submitted to Police Authority, Was Never