• Gerlach v. K. Hovnanian's Four Seasons at Beaumont, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-09-01
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Court of Appeal, 4th District
    Judge: Justice Menetrez
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: E075228

    Claims of roofing defects under Right to Repair Act must be supported by evidence of actual failure

  • U.S. v. Greebel

    Publication Date: 2022-08-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | White Collar Crime
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Richard Wesley
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellee: Varuni Nelson, Rachel G. Balaban, Beth P. Schwartz, on the brief, Thomas R. Price, Assistant United States Attorney, for Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, New York.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellant: Reed Brodsky, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY.

    Case Number: 21-993

    Notwithstanding ERISA Provision MVRA Authorized Garnishment of 401(k) Retirement Funds

  • Grajales v. Comm'r of Internal Revenue

    Publication Date: 2022-08-30
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Federal Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Richard Wesley
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant: Phillip J. Colastano and Andrew D. Lendrum, Agostino & Associates, P.C., on the brief, Frank Agostino, Agostino & Associates, P.C., Hackensack, NJ.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellee: David A. Hubbert and Jacob Christensen, Department of Justice, Tax Division, on the brief, Pooja A. Boisture, Department of Justice, Tax Division, Washington, D.C.

    Case Number: 21-1420

    Borrower Is Liable Under 10 Percent 'Exaction' Deemed a Tax, Not a Penalty, Under Tax Code

  • City of Hoboken v. Chevron Corp.

    Publication Date: 2022-08-29
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: Energy | State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Justice Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr. (Gibson Dunn & Crutcher); Thomas G. Hungar (Gibson Dunn & Crutcher); Joel M. Silverstein and Herbert J. Stern (Stern Kilcullen & Rufolo); Joshua D. Dick (Gibson Dunn & Crutcher); Andrea E. Neuman (Gibson Dunn & Crutcher); William E. Thomson, III (Gibson Dunn & Crutcher); William T. Marks and Kannon K. Shanmugam, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison); Daniel J. Toal and Theodore V. Wells, Jr. (Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison); Kevin H. Marino and John D. Tortorella (Marino Tortorella & Boyle); Paul J. Fishman (Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer); Matthew T. Heartney and John D. Lombardo (Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer); Jonathan W. Hughes (Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer); Nancy G. Milburn and Diana E. Reiter (Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer); Steven M. Bauer and Margaret Tough (Latham & Watkins); Daniel R. Brody and Jameson R. Jones (Bartlit Beck); Jeffrey S. Chiesa, Michael K. Plumb, and Dennis M. Toft (Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi); Daniel J. Brown and Alexandra M. Joyce (McCarter & English); Steven M. Bauer (Latham & Watkins); Anthony P. Callaghan (Gibbons); Sylvia-Rebecca Gutierrez and Thomas R. Valen (Gibbons); Daniel J. Brown and Alexandra M. Joyce (McCarter & English); Margaret Tough (Latham & Watkins); Robert W. Whetzel (Richards Layton & Finger); Kathryn M. Barber and Brian D. Schmalzbach (McGuireWoods); Jeffrey M. Beyer and Anthony J. Zarillo, Jr. (Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti); Kevin J. Mangan (Womble Bond Dickinson); Andrew G. McBride (McGuireWoods); David C. Frederick, Grace W. Knofczynski, and Daniel Severson (Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick); Steven L. Caponi (K&L Gates); Joseph J. Bellew (White & Williams); Megan H. Berge (Baker Botts); J. Scott Janoe (Baker Botts); Tristan L. Duncan (Shook Hardy & Bacon); Daniel B. Rogers (Shook Hardy & Bacon); Michael A. Barlow (Abrams & Bayliss); Robert P. Reznick (Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe); Shannon S. Broome and Ann M. Mortimore (Hunton Andrews Kurth); Shawn P. Regan (Hunton Andrews Kurth); Antionette D. Hubbard (Maron Marvel Bradley & Anderson); Robert E. Dunn (Eimer Stahl); Nathan P. Eimer, Pamela R. Hanebutt, and Lisa S. Meyer (Eimer Stahl); Jeffrey L. Moyer (Richards Layton & Finger); Vanessa Lavely and Kevin J. Orsini (Cravath Swaine & Moore); Joy C. Fuhr and Brian D. Schmalzbach (McGuireWoods); Christian J. Singewald (White & Williams); Michael A. Barlow (Abrams & Bayliss); Alexandra Ewing and Robert W. Whetzel (Richards Layton & Finger); Robert P. Reznick (Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe); J. Benjamin Aguinaga (Jones Day); Noel J. Francisco and David M. Morrell (Jones Day); David C. Kiernan (Jones Day); Tracy A. Roman and Kathleen T. Sooy (Crowell & Moring); Honor R. Costello (Crowell & Moring); Michael F. Healy (Shook Hardy & Bacon); Mackenzie M. Wrobel (Duane Morris); Michael L. Fox (Duane Morris); Blake K. Rohrbacher, Alexandra Ewing, and Robert W. Whetzel (Richards Layton & Finger)
    for defendant: Jonathan S. Abady, Matthew D. Brinckerhoff, Ananda V. Burra, andMax R. Selver (Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel); Gerald Krovatin and Helen A. Nau (Krovatin Nau); Stephanie D. Biehl, Matthew K. Edling, Quentin C. Karpilow, and Victor M. Sher (Sher Edling); Ralph K. Durstein, III and Christian D. Wright (Office of Attorney General of Delaware); Jameson A.L. Tweedie (Delaware Department of Justice)

    Case Number: 21-2728 & 22-1096

    State Law Tort Claims Arising from Climate Change Caused by Use of Fossil Fuel Products Did Not Create Federal Question Permitting Removal to Federal Court

  • NFTD v. Haynes Boone

    Publication Date: 2022-08-29
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure | Law Firm Client Relationships
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Hassan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 14-17-00999-CV

    A law firm, that successfully obtained attorney immunity and was granted summary judgment, failed to prove on appeal that the trial court was correct to grant the motion.

  • Chandler v. Phoenix Services

    Publication Date: 2022-08-29
    Practice Area: Antitrust | Civil Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Duncan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-10626

    In what is known as a Walker Process suit, appellants, oilfield services companies, brough antitrust claims against appellee for enforcing a fraudulent fracking patent.

  • Prible v. Lumpkin

    Publication Date: 2022-08-29
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Duncan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 20-70010

    Appellee, Ronald Jeffrey Prible, was indicted and convicted of capital murder for the deaths of Esteban Herrera and his family in 2001.

  • U.S. v. Hoskins

    Publication Date: 2022-08-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | White Collar Crime
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Rosemary Pooler
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee: David P. Burns, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Brian C. Rabbitt, Former Acting Assistant Attorney General, Daniel S. Kahn, Senior Deputy Chief, Fraud Section, United States Department of Justice, Lorinda I. Laryea, Assistant Chief, Fraud Section, United States Department of Justice, Sandra S. Glover, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief, David E. Novick, Assistant United States Attorney, for John H. Durham, United States Attorney, District of Connecticut, New Haven, CT.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant: Daniel S. Silver, Celeste L.M. Koeleveld, Benjamin Peacock, on the brief, Christopher J. Morvillo, Clifford Chance US LLP, New York, NY. Amici Curiae in support of Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant: Frederick T. Davis, International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators, New York, NY. Amici Curiae in support of Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant: Lindsay A. Lewis, Vice Chair, Amicus Curiae Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, James D. Gatta, Andrew Kim, Emily M. Notini, Daniel M. Gitner, Jeannie Rose Rubin, on the brief, Richard M. Strassberg, New York, NY.

    Case Number: 20-842

    Non-Citizen Properly Acquitted of FCPA Charges Under FRCP 29; No Agency Relationship

  • In the Interest of GCS Jr

    Publication Date: 2022-08-22
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Constitutional Law | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Palafox
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 08-22-00038-CV

    A mother and father, who had their parental rights terminated by the trial court, failed to prove any reversible error on appeal.

  • CAE Integrated v. Moov Technologies

    Publication Date: 2022-08-22
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Employment Litigation | Trade Secrets
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-50034

    A company, that sued a former employee for misappropriation of trade secrets, failed to prove on appeal that the district court erred in denying its motion for a preliminary injunction.