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  • Appellate Division, Second Department: December 27, 2024

    Publication Date: 2024-12-27
    Practice Area: Appellate Division Activity | Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department, Motion List & Order on Application
    Judge: Unsigned
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    Case Number: DOCKET

    Motion List & Order on Application released on:December 23, 2024

  • 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. 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
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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.

  • 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
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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.

  • 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

  • December 17, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Here We Go Again: The Fosamax Preemption Saga Continues

    Unless the Third Circuit’s decision is reversed, this decision revives hundreds of cases, many of which have been dormant since at least 2017.

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  • 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
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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.

  • LKF v. MTF

    Publication Date: 2024-12-13
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Supreme Court, Nassau
    Judge: Justice Edmund M. Dane
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: (redacted)

    Court Orders Plaintiff to Put Money Back into 529 Accounts

  • Jones v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2024-12-13
    Practice Area: Public Utilities | Tax
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James W. Hurt, Jr., (Hurt Stolz, PC), Watkinsville, Irwin W. Stolz, Jr., (Hurt Stolz, PC), Athens, John Floyd Woodham, (Woodham Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joel Aldrich Jothan Callins, (City of Atlanta Law Department), Atlanta, Michael James King, Richard Joseph Valladares, Steven Jason Rosenwasser, Ernest Lamont Greer, (Greenberg Traurig, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0652

    Court affirms in part and reverses in part a challenge to certain ordinances connected to water bills to Atlanta residents, and remands for further analysis of atlanta utility fees