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  • Colon de Mejias v. Lamont

    Publication Date: 2020-06-29
    Practice Area: Energy and Natural Resources | Government | Public Utilities | Tax
    Industry: Energy | State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Peter Hall
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellants: Stephen J. Humes, Holland & Knight LLP, John M. Wolfson, Feiner Wolfson, LLC, Roger Reynolds, Connecticut Fund for the Environment, on the brief, Benjamin M. Wattenmaker, Feiner Wolfson, LLC, Hartford, CT.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellees: Phillip Miller, Assistant Attorney General, for William Tong, Attorney General for the State of Connecticut, Hartford, CT.
    Case Number: 18-3533

    Transfer From Energy Funds to General Fund Does Not Violate Contracts Clause, Is Not Tax

  • Harvey et al. v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2020-05-08
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Damages | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laurie Daniel, Matthew Friedlander, (Holland & Knight, LLP), Atlanta, Roger Harris, Douglas Clayton, (Swift, Currie, Mcghee & Hiers, LLP), Atlanta, Bruce Kirbo, (Attorney at Law), Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Erwin, Alfred Powell, (Powell & Erwin, P.C.), Camilla, W. McCall, Henry Williams, (Mccall WILLIAMS, LLC), Albany, Gregory Williams, (The Law Offices of Gregory Terrell Williams LLC), Camilla, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A2217

    Plaintiff's Closing Argument Violated Trial Court's Admonition Not to Enflame Jurors' Emotions

  • Fortress Investment Group, LLC et al. v. Holsinger

    Publication Date: 2020-04-24
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Consulting
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Coomer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laurie Daniel, Philip George, (Holland & Knight), Atlanta, Joyce Lewis, Jeffrey Horst, (Krevolin & Horst, LLC), Atlanta, Jeffrey Zaiger, Samuel Fraidin, Gregory Joseph, Honey Kober, (Joseph Hage Aaronson LLC), New York, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frank Lowrey, Jeffrey Chen, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, John Malley, (Spolzino, Smith, Buss, & Jacobs, LLP), White Plains, for appellee. Mark Maholick, (Hall Booth Smith, P.C.), Columbus, for other party.
    Case Number: A19A1750

    Court vacates injunction precluding enforcement of a restrictive post-employment covenant and remands for limitations on the scope of the injunction

  • Keen v. Georgia Southern & Florida Railway Company

    Publication Date: 2020-04-21
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Holland, Jessie Harrell, (Harrell and Harrell), Jacksonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Amanda Morris, Mark Toth, (Hall, Bloch, Garland & Meyer, LLP), Atlanta, Laurie Daniel, Matthew Friedlander, (Holland & Knight, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A2154

    Personal Injury Plaintiff Submitted Enough Evidence to Survive Summary Judgment on Duty and Breach Elements of Negligence Claim Under FELA

  • Khalia, Inc. v. Rosebud

    Publication Date: 2020-01-13
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Premises Liability
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laurie Daniel, Matthew Friedlander, (Holland & Knight, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Glenn Bass, Molly Moyer, (Scrudder Bass Quillian Horlock Taylor & Lazarus), Atlanta, Michael Rafi, (Rafi Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Kurt Kastorf, (Kastorf Law), Atlanta, Darren Summerville, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1891

    Court affirms premises liability award because property manager failed to preserve the matter for appeal, and the evidence supported it.

  • Avis Rent A Car System, LLC et al. v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2019-12-23
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Casey, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, LLP), Atlanta, Brantley Rowlen, Victoria Waller, (Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP), Atlanta, Laurie Daniel, Matthew Friedlander, (Holland & Knight, LLP), Atlanta, Robert Shannon, (Baker Donelson), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Darryl Adams, (Law Offices of Michael L. Neff), Atlanta, Naveen Ramachandrappa, Michael Terry, Amanda Seals, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Michael Neff, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellee. George Welborn, (Downey, Cleveland, Parker & Williams), Marietta, American Car Rental Association, Atlanta, William Custer, (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP), Atlanta, for other party. Brittany Wilson, (Shook, Hardy, & Bacon L.L.P.), San Francisco, Andrew Trask, (Shook, Hardy, & Bacon L.L.P.), Los Angeles, Mark Behrens, (Shook, Hardy, & Bacon L.L.P.), Washington, for AM.
    Case Number: A19A0928

    Car thief's criminal act was the intervening proximate cause of a party's injuries, and car rental company was not directly or vicariously liable for negligence

  • Platinum-Montaur Life Sciences LLC v. Navidea Biopharmaceuticals Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-12-03
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Michael Park
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant: Warren E. Gluck, Barbara P. Parlin, and Kathryn B. Daly on the brief, Robert J. Burns, Holland & Knight LLP, New York, New York.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellee: Robert C. Folland, Barnes & Thornburg, LLP, Columbus, Ohio.
    Case Number: 18-3535-cv

    Court Erred by Exercising Diversity Jurisdiction Absent Finding if Parties Fully Diverse

  • Houston Community College v. HV BTW

    Publication Date: 2019-07-15
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Real Estate
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Bourliot
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 14-18-00467-CV

    Appellant, Houston Community College, owns a vacant lot and appellee sought an easement on that lot.

  • Brown v. Maxwell

    Publication Date: 2019-07-15
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge José Cabranes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Intervenors‐Appellants Julie Brown and Miami Herald: Christine N. Walz, Madelaine J. Harrington, New York, NY, on the brief, Sanford L. Bohrer, Holland & Knight LLP, Miami, FL.
    for defendant: For Defendant‐Appellee Ghislaine Maxwell: Adam Mueller, on the brief, TY Gee, Haddon, Morgan and Foreman, P.C., Denver, CO. For Plaintiff‐Appellee Virginia L. Giuffre: Sigrid S. McCawley, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, on the brief, Paul G. Cassell, S.J Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. For Intervenor‐Appellant Alan M. Dershowitz: David A. Lebowitz, on the brief, Andrew G. Celli Jr., Emery, Celli, Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP, New York, NY. For Intervenor‐Appellant Michael Cernovich: Jay Marshall Wolman, Las Vegas, NV, on the brief, Marc Randazza, Randazza Legal Group, PLLC, Hartford, CT.
    Case Number: 18-2868-cv

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  • EnerQuest Oil Gas v. Antero Resources

    Publication Date: 2019-04-22
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure | Trade Secrets
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Sudderth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 02-18-00178-CV

    Antero intervened in a lawsuit and brought a trade secret misappropriation claim against appellant, EnerQuest Oil & Gas, LLC.