• Appellate Division, First Department: October 2, 2018

    Publication Date: 2018-10-03
    Practice Area: Appellate Division Activity | Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, First Department, Cases & Orders on Motion
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: DOCKET

    Appellate Division, First Department:October 2, 2018

  • Appellate Division, Second Department:October 1, 2018

    Publication Date: 2018-10-03
    Practice Area: Appellate Division Activity | Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department, Motion List & Order on Application
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: DOCKET

    Appellate Division, Second Department:October 1, 2018

  • October 3, 2018 | Law.com

    Inside Track: Law Firm Billing Gripes | NAFTA 2.0 Not a 'Complete Freaking Disaster' | And in Other SCOTUS News...

    This week on Inside Track we asked what GCs are looking for in their outside attorneys. Thanks to some vocal in-house legal leaders, we got down to the bottom of it and will hopefully give you some insight. Also, we look at the new NAFTA--otherwise known as the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement. Plus some other Supreme Court news.

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  • Coal. for Competitive Electricity v. Zibelman

    Publication Date: 2018-10-03
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Constitutional Law
    Industry: Energy | State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Dennis Jacobs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs‐Appellants: Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, Washington, DC; Henry Weissmann, Fred A. Rowley, Jr., Mark R. Yohalem, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, California; Jonathan D. Schiller, David A. Barrett, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, New York, New York; Stuart H. Singer, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
    for defendant: For Amici Curiae Energy Economists, in support of Plaintiffs‐Appellants: Aaron M. Panner, Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC. For amici curiae American Petroleum Institute, Natural Gas Supply Association in support of Plaintiffs‐Appellants: Ben Norris, American Petroleum Institute, Washington, DC; Dena Wiggins, Natural Gas Supply Association, Washington, DC. For Amicus Curiae Independent Market Monitor for PJM, in support of Plaintiffs‐Appellants: Jeffrey W. Mayes, General Counsel, Monitoring Analytics, LLC, Eagleville, Pennsylvania For Defendants‐Appellees: Peter J. Hopkins, Jeffrey A. Schwarz, Amber L. Martin, on the brief, Scott H. Strauss, Spiegel & McDiarmid LLP, Washington, DC; Paul Agresta, General Counsel, John Sipos, Deputy General Counsel, John C. Graham, Public Service Commission of the State of New York, Albany, New York. For Intervenors‐Defendants‐Appellees: David W. DeBruin, Zachary C. Schauf, William K. Dreher, on the brief, Matthew E. Price, Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC. For Amici Curiae Electricity Regulation Scholars in support of Defendants‐Appellees: Ari Peskoe, Harvard Law School Environmental Policy Initiative, Cambridge, Massachusetts For Amicus Curiae Institute for Policy Integrity, in support of Defendants‐Appellees: Bethany A. Davis Noll, Avi Zevin, on the brief, Richard L. Revesz, Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, New York, New York For Amici Curiae Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Defense Fund, in support of Defendants‐Appellees: Miles Farmer, on the brief, Thomas Zimpleman, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC; Michael Panfil, Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, DC For Amicus Curiae Nuclear Energy Institute, in support of Defendants‐Appellants: Ellen C. Ginsberg, on the brief, Jonathan M. Rund, Nuclear Energy Institute, Washington, DC For amici curiae States of California, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington, in support of Defendants‐Appellees: Seth A. Hollander, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief, Clare E. Kindall, Assistant Attorney General, for George Jepsen, Attorney General of Connecticut, New Britain, Connecticut; M. Elaine Meckenstock, Deputy Attorney General: Kathleen A. Kenealy, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Robert W. Byrne, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Sally Magnani, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Gavin G. McCabe, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Melinda Piling, Deputy Attorney General, Myung J. Park, Deputy Attorney General, Dennis L. Beck, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, on the brief, for Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, Oakland, California For Amici Curiae Independent Economists, in support of Defendants‐Appellees: Samuel T. Walsh, Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP, Washington, DC For Amicus Curiae American Wind Energy Association, in support of neither party: Gene Grace, on the brief, Julia Dreyer, American Wind Energy Ass

    Case Number: 17-2654-cv

    N.Y.'s ZEC Program for Nuclear Power Plants Not 'Field','Conflict' Preempted by FERC

  • October 2, 2018 | New York Law Journal

    Rising Star: Sharon K. Robertson

    Partner, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll

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  • October 2, 2018 | New York Law Journal

    'AlbaniaBEG Ambient v. Enel': The Backstory

    The First Department's February 2018 decision in AlbaniaBEG Ambient SH.P.K v. Enel S.P.A., 160 A.D.3d 93 (1st Dept. 2018), surprised many practitioners…

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  • K.D. v. Downingtown Area Sch. Dist.

    Publication Date: 2018-10-02
    Practice Area: Education Law
    Industry: Education
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 18-1176

    The appellate court clarified that the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Endrew F. v. Douglas Cty. Sch. Dist. did not implicitly overrule its meaningful-benefit test applicable to a public-school student's individualized education programs and that the minor child's programs were reasonably calculated to enable her to make appropriate progress. The appellate court affirmed the district court's judgment in favor of the school district.

  • Appellate Division, Second Department:September 27, 2018

    Publication Date: 2018-10-01
    Practice Area: Appellate Division Activity | Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department, Motion List & Order on Application
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: DOCKET

    Appellate Division, Second Department:September 27, 2018

  • Appellate Division, First Department: September 27, 2018

    Publication Date: 2018-10-01
    Practice Area: Appellate Division Activity | Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, First Department, Cases decided
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: DOCKET

    Appellate Division, First Department:September 27, 2018

  • Wood v. State Of Texas

    Publication Date: 2018-10-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Criminal Appeals
    Judge: Judge Richardson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: PD-1100-17

    Appellant was indicted for attempted capital murder of her infant child and entered into an open plea of guilty.