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  • Lazar v. Bishop

    Publication Date: 2024-12-31
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Court of Appeal, 2nd District
    Judge: Presiding Justice Edmon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: B321752

    Cause of action for breach of real estate brokers' fiduciary duties, seeking damages related to property rights and pecuniary interests only, is assignable

  • In re Estate of Tot S. Richards

    Publication Date: 2024-12-30
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Trusts and Estates
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Bailey
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 11-23-00031-CV

    Decedent died testate in 2018. His will named his three daughters, appellant Leinenbach and appellees Foster and Richard, as co-executors.

  • Peterman v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-12-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Padgett
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frances Kuo, Atlanta, Melissa Akins, (DeKalb County Public Defender), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elaine Thompson, Fani Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A1381

    Court affirms convictions for sexual assault offenses against minor, rejecting merger, sufficiency, and evidentiary challenges

  • United States v. Villarreal

    Publication Date: 2024-12-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 23-20144

    Appellant was charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana, conspiracy to kidnap, and kidnapping.

  • United States v. White

    Publication Date: 2024-12-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 23-10194

    Appellant appealed his 120-month sentence for being a felon in possession arguing the district court improperly applied U.S.S.G. § 2A2.1(a)(2), the guideline for attempted murder, was supported by information external to the indictment and factual resume that led to erroneous findings that appellant acted with specific intent to kill and did not act in self-defense, because the application of the guideline based on judicial factfinding violated his right to a jury, and because the sentence was substantively unreasonable.

  • The People &c.,Respondent,v.Edward Mero,Appellant.

    Publication Date: 2024-12-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Court of Appeals, New York State
    Judge: Associate Judge Caitlin Halligan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew C. Hug, for appellant.
    for defendant: Emily Schultz, for respondent.
    Case Number: No. 122

    People Edward Mero

  • Phhhoto Inc. v. Meta Platforms Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-12-18
    Practice Area: Antitrust
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant: Irving Scher, on the brief, Scott Martin, Hausfeld LLP, New York, NY; Sarah LaFreniere, Hausfeld LLP, Washington, D.C.
    for defendant: Phillip F. Cramer, Sperling & Slater, LLC, Nashville, TN; Eamon P. Kelly & Nathan A. Shev, Sperling & Slater, LLC, Chicago, IL, for Josh Davis, Christopher R. Leslie, Robert H. Lande, Peter C. Carstensen, John B. Kirkwood, Edward D. Cavanaugh, Darren Bush & Harry First, as amici curiae Nada Djordjevic, DiCello Levitt LLP, Chicago IL; Gregory S. Asciolla, DiCello Levitt LLC, New York, NY; Robin A. van der Meulen, Scott & Scott Attorneys at Law LLP, New York, NY; Kristen Marttila, Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P., Minneapolis, MN, for The Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws, as amicus curiae For Defendant-Appellee: Alex Treiger, on the brief, Aaron M. Panner, Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C.
    Case Number: 23-763

    Sherman Act's Statute-of-Limitations Should Have Been Equitably Tolled; Claim Is Timely

  • Van Loon v. Dep't of the Treasury

    Publication Date: 2024-12-16
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Constitutional Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Willetts
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 23-50669

    In 2022, the Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Tornado Cash, an open-source, crypto-transaction software protocol that facilitates anonymous transactions by obfuscating the origins and destinations of digital asset transfers. Appellants, users of Tornado Cash, argued that inclusion of Tornado Cash on the Specially Designated National and Blocked Persons list exceeded OFAC's statutory authority.

  • West Harbour, LLC v. Orleans Harbour Homeowners Ass'n, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-12-09
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Real Estate
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Wise
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 14-23-00249-CV

    Appellant owns Lot 35 and appellee owns adjacent lot 34. Prior owners of Lot 34 built a peninsula extending into the Colorado River.

  • City of McLendon-Chisholm v. City of Heath

    Publication Date: 2024-12-09
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Constitutional Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Carlyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 05-23-00881-CV

    Appellee city brought suit over issues, ordinances, regulations, and agreements pertaining to development, land use, zoning, governance, and related matters involving land within the city limits and extraterritorial jurisdiction of appellant city, with which it shares a border.