• Pearsall v. Medtronics, Inc., CV 14-3378

    Publication Date: 2015-12-15
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    Court: U.S. District Court, Eastern District
    Judge: District Judge Leonard Wexler
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Plaintiff By: Brian M. Dratch, Esq., Franzblau Dratch, P.C., New York, NY.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Defendant By: Andrew J. Calica, Esq., Mayer Brown LLP, Andrew E. Tauber, Esq., Daniel L. Ring, Esq., Chicago, IL.

    Case Number: CV 14-3378

    Cite as: Pearsall v. Medtronics , CV 14-3378, NYLJ 1202744753542, at *1 (EDNY, Decided December 7, 2015) CASENAME Furman Pearsall, Plaintiff v. Medtronics

  • Mondaca-Vega v. Lynch

    Publication Date: 2015-12-15
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    Date Filed: 2015-12-15
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge and Harry Pregerson, Alex Kozinski, Barry G. Silverman, William A. Fletcher, Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Jay S. Bybee, N. Randy Smith, Mary H. Murguia, Jacqueline H. Nguyen and Andrew D. Hurwitz, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matt Adams (argued), Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Seattle, Washington; and Martha H. Rickey, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Granger, Washington, for Petitioner.
    for defendant: August E. Flentje (argued), Stuart F. Delery, Colin A. Kisor, Elizabeth J. Stevens, Aaron S. Goldsmith, Katherine E.M. Goettel, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

    Case Number: No. 03-71369

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 13226 SALVADOR MONDACA-VEGA, Petitioner, v. LORETTA E. LYNCH, Atto

  • Javorsky v. Western Athletic Clubs, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2015-12-14
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    Date Filed: 2015-12-11
    Court: C.A. 1st
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Finkelstein Thompson LLP, Rosemary M. Rivas, Caitlyn D. Finley; Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP, Marc L. Godino for Appellant.
    for defendant: Keker & Van Nest LLP, Susan J. Harriman, Benjamin W. Berkowitz and John C. Bostic for Defendant and Respondent.

    Case Number: No. A142254

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 13195 DANIEL JAVORSKY, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. WESTERN ATHLETIC

  • Expressions Hair Design v. Attorney General of the State of New York, 13‐4533

    Publication Date: 2015-12-14
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Wesley, Livingston, and Carney, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs‐Appellees: Gary Friedman, Friedman Law Group, LLP, New York, NY, on the brief, Deepak Gupta, Gupta Beck PLLC, Washington, DC. For Amici Curiae The Kroger Company, Safeway Inc., Walgreen Co., Food Lion, LLC, Hy‐Vee Inc., H.E. Butt Grocery Co., The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Inc., Albertson's LLC, and Rite Aid Corp., in support of Plaintiffs‐Appellees: Linda P. Nussbaum, Grant & Eisenhofer, P.A., New York, NY. For Amici Curiae Consumer Action, National Association of Consumer Advocates, National Consumers League, and U.S. Public Interest Research Group, in support of Plaintiffs‐Appellees: J. Douglas Richards, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendant‐Appellant Eric T. Schneiderman, in his official capacity as Attorney General of the State of New York: Barbara D. Underwood, Solicitor General, Steven C. Wu, Deputy Solicitor General, on the brief, Judith Vale, Assistant Attorney General For Defendants‐ Appellants Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., in his official capacity as District Attorney of New York County, and Charles J. Hynes, in his official capacity as District Attorney of Kings County: Larry A. Sonnenschein, Ronald E. Sternberg, for Zachary W. Carter, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York. For Amicus Curiae Credit Union Association of New York in support of Defendants‐Appellants: Henry C. Meier, Associate General Counsel.

    Case Number: 13‐4533

    Cite as: Expressions v. Schneiderman, 13‐4533, NYLJ 1202744761352, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided September 29, 2015) CASE NAME Expressions Hair Design, Linda Fiacco,

  • December 14, 2015 | New York Law Journal

    Surveying the Application of 'Daimler' in the Circuits

    The decision in Daimler v. Bauman,1 is hailed as "arguably the most important U.S. Supreme Court rulin

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  • December 11, 2015 | The Recorder

    Scope of Hacking Law Focus of Ninth Circuit Cases

    SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit last week waded into familiar but unsettled territory under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The decades-old anti-hacking law has spawned a sharp

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  • December 11, 2015 | New York Law Journal

    Surveying the Application of 'Daimler' in the Circuits

    Stephen Baldini, Anthony Pierce and Stanley Woodward of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld write: The watershed decision in 'Daimler' reversed the notion that companies with substantial sales throughout the United States can be sued anywhere. While it has been nearly two years since the decision, there have been notably few challenges to the exercise of general personal jurisdiction in the U.S. federal circuit courts. Those courts that have addressed the issue, however, highlight who the beneficiaries of 'Daimler' are: non-U.S. entities, entities sued in inconvenient forums, and, potentially, entities whose websites are accessible in many jurisdictions.

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  • December 11, 2015 | The Recorder

    Scope of Hacking Law Focus of Ninth Circuit Cases

    Facebook is hoping Ninth Circuit Judge Susan Graber's property analogy, that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is like a trespass law, carries the day in a civil suit that is exploring the bounds of the controversial anti-hacking statute.

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  • Deaver v. Desai, 14-14-00683-CV (Tex.App. Dist.14 12/03/2015)

    Publication Date: 2015-12-11
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    Date Filed: 2015-12-03
    Court: Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourteenth District
    Judge: Tracy Christopher Justice
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    Case Number: 14-14-00683-CV

    Opinion of November 3, 2015 Withdrawn On Appeal from the 295th District Court Harris County, Texas Trial Court Cause No. 2014-18950 Panel consists

  • December 9, 2015 | The Recorder

    Hacking Law Gets Workout in Facebook Case

    SAN FRANCISCO — For the second time in as many months, a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit panel heard arguments Wednesday about what it means to access a computer "

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