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  • February 21, 2025 | Litigation Daily

    Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

    Runners-up this week include teams at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner.

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  • Appellate Division, Second Department: February 21, 2025

    Publication Date: 2025-02-21
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department, Hand Down Lists
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: DOCKET

    Handdowns released on:February 18 & 19, 2025

  • Murray v. UBS Sec. LLC

    Publication Date: 2025-02-20
    Practice Area: Whistleblower Laws
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Michael H. Park
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellee: Robert B. Stulberg, Patrick J. Walsh, Stulberg & Walsh LLP; Scott A. Korenbaum, Scott A. Korenbaum, Esq.; Benjamin J. Ashmore, Sr., Herbst Law PLLC on the brief, Robert L. Herbst, Herbst Law PLLC, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellants: Eugene Scalia, Andrew G.I. Kilberg, Gabrielle Levin, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP on the brief, Thomas G. Hungar, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC.
    Case Number: 20-4202

    Jury Instruction Strayed From §1514A, Expanded Definition of 'Contributing Factor'

  • Ashley v. The State

    Publication Date: 2025-02-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maxwell Chase, Brookhaven, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert Franklin, Clayton Fuller, John Franklin, (Lookout Mountain Circuit District Attorney’s Office), LaFayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A1706

    Court Affirms Convictions for Methamphetamine Possession and Trafficking Despite Defendant's Sufficiency and Other Evidentiary Challenges

  • February 18, 2025 | Texas Lawyer

    Pivotal Trial Begins in Texas: Will Johnson & Johnson's Third Talc Bankruptcy Survive?

    U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez heard opening statements on Tuesday in a two-week trial over the fate of Johnson & Johnson's third talcum powder bankruptcy.

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  • Appellate Division, First Department: February 14, 2025

    Publication Date: 2025-02-14
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, First Department, Appeals & Motions
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: DOCKET

    Appeals & Motions List released on:February 11, 2025

  • February 11, 2025 | New York Law Journal

    A Golden Anniversary And Review of Discretion

    The authors write: Turning now to this month’s topic, “’Judicial discretion is a phrase of great latitude; but it never means the arbitrary will of the judge.’ . . . It is a legal discretion founded upon conditions which call for judicial action as distinguished from mere individual or personal view or desire.”

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  • Henry v. The State

    Publication Date: 2025-02-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Yurachek, (The Law Offices of Mark Allen Yurachek & Associate), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bradford Rigby, Lauren Fletcher, (Office of the District Attorney, Cordele Judicial Circuit), Cordele, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A1260

    Court Affirms Convictions for Furnishing Contraband to Inmates Over Defendant's Challenges to Sufficiency of Evidence and Claim of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

  • Clarke v. Town of Newburgh

    Publication Date: 2025-02-10
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department
    Judge: Justice Cheryl E. Chambers
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellants: Robert A. Spolzino, Jeffrey A. Cohen, David Imamura, Steven Still, and Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School [Ruth Greenwood, Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, Daniel Hessel, and Samuel Jacob Davis, pro hac vice], of counsel, Abrams Fensterman, LLP, White Plains, NY.
    for defendant: For Respondents: Misha Tseytlin and Bennet J. Moskowitz of counsel, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, New York, NY. Intervenor-Appellant Pro Se: Barbara D. Underwood, Judith Vale, Andrea Trento, Beezly J. Kiernan, Sandra Park, Lindsay McKenzie, and Derek Borchardt of counsel, Letitia James, Attorney General, New York, NY. Amicus Curiae Pro Se and for Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California: Robert Brent Ferguson of counsel, Campaign Legal Center, Washington, DC. Amicus Curiae Pro Se: Adam Lioz, Samuel Spital, Stuart Naifeh, Michael Pernick, and Maia Cole of counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York, NY. For Amici Curiae Town of Mount Pleasant and Town Board of the Town of Mount Pleasant: Ariana Dindiyal, Robert J. Tucker, Erika D. Prouty, Rebecca Schrote, and E. Mark Braden of counsel, Baker & Hostetler, LLP, New York, NY. For Amicus Curiae Town of Cheektowaga: Joseph Burns of counsel, Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak, PLLC, Buffalo, NY.
    Case Number: 2024-04376

    90-Day Safe Harbor Not Triggered by Resolution to Remedy Voting Rights Violation

  • Whitaker v. State of Texas

    Publication Date: 2025-02-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Rivas-Molloy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 14-22-00923-CR

    Appellant pled guilty to robbery with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment.