• Ex Parte Roark

    Publication Date: 2024-11-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Criminal Appeals
    Judge: Judge Keller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: WR-56,380-03

    Applicant was convicted by a jury of injury to a child and was sentenced to 35 years' confinement.

  • Farhane v. U.S.

    Publication Date: 2024-11-08
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Criminal Law | Immigration Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Susan L. Carney
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Petitioner-Appellant Abderrahmane Farhane: Naz Ahmad, Mudassar Toppa, Clear Project, Main Street Legal Services, Inc., CUNY School of Law, Long Island City, NY; Alan E. Schoenfeld, Emily Barnet, Sandra Redivo, Trena M. Riley, Dylan Reichman, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, NY; Thad Eagles, Jeremy W. Brinster, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC; Asma S. Jaber, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Boston, MA, on the brief, Ramzi Kassem.
    for defendant: For Respondent-Appellee United States of America: Jun Xiang, Hagan Scotten, on the brief, Karl Metzner, for Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY. For Amicus Curiae Asian Americans Advancing Justice in Support of Petitioner-Appellant Abderrahmane Farhane: John C. Yang, Niyati Shah, Marita Etcubañez, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Washington, DC; Andrew Z. Michaelson, Mateo de la Torre, King & Spalding LLP, New York, NY. For Amicus Curiae Immigrant Defense Project in Support of Petitioner-Appellant Abderrahmane Farhane: Andrew Wachtenheim, Nabilah Siddiquee, Immigrant Defense Project, New York, NY. For Amici Curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Federal Defenders of New York, Inc., Federal Public Defender's Office for the Western District of New York, Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Connecticut, Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Vermont, and Office of the Public Defender for the Northern District of New York in Support of Petitioner-Appellant Abderrahmane Farhane: Joel B. Rudin, Matthew A. Wasserman, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, New York, NY; Richard D. Willstatter, New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, White Plains, NY; S. Isaac Wheeler, Federal Defenders of New York, Inc., New York, NY. For Amici Curiae Professors of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Immigration Law in Support of Petitioner-Appellant Abderrahmane Farhane: Alyssa Barnard-Yanni, Andrew D. Silverman, Daniel A. Rubens, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York, NY; Lauren A. Weber, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Seattle, WA.

    Case Number: 20-1666

    Lawyer Must Inform Naturalized Citizen of Risk of Deportation After Denaturalization

  • November 4, 2024 | National Law Journal

    Supreme Court Will Try to Settle 'Endless Game of Ping-Pong' Over Louisiana Congressional Map

    "Without this Court's intervention, the State will be sued again no matter what it does," Louisiana Solicitor General J. Benjamin Aguiñaga wrote in an appeal to the justices. "With all due respect to the judges in the cases below, this redistricting saga must end."

    4 minute read

  • In the Matter of J.M.

    Publication Date: 2024-11-04
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Criminal Law | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Wise
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 14-24-00478-CV

    A juvenile, who alleged that the trial court erred in transferring him to criminal district court, successfully proved on appeal that he was entitled to relief.

  • Sloan v. Sloan

    Publication Date: 2024-11-04
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Womack
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 02-23-00361-CV

    Prior to the parties' marriage, appellee owned a house in Florida and retired from his employment which resulted in a payment of pension benefits to him.

  • Williams v. Fryermuth

    Publication Date: 2024-10-31
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, U.S. - SDNY
    Judge: District Judge Philip M. Halpern
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 23-CV-2156

    Jail Is Not 'Person' Under 42 USC §1983; 'Monell' Claims Insufficiently Pleaded, Proved

  • Wilson v. Midland County

    Publication Date: 2024-10-28
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Ramirez
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-50998

    Plaintiff Erma Wilson was convicted of cocaine possession in 2001. Her appeal to a Texas court of appeals was unsuccessful.

  • Kwateng v. Gruenberg

    Publication Date: 2024-10-28
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, U.S. - SDNY
    Judge: District Judge J. Paul Oetken
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-CV-11089

    Remedies Not Exhausted; EEO Counselor Not Contacted Within 45 Days of Discrimination

  • October 23, 2024 | Daily Business Review

    Big Law Assembles as Cruise Lines Clinch Partial Victory in $439M Havana Docks Suit

    "As a member of the Cuban American community in South Florida whose family lost everything following the 1959 Cuban revolution, wholeheartedly agree with the dissent," said one attorney not associated with the lawsuit.

    8 minute read

  • Broden v. Rubenstein

    Publication Date: 2024-10-22
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, U.S. - SDNY
    Judge: District Judge Vincent L. Briccetti
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21 Civ 10411

    Psychiatric Patient's Confidentiality Breach Claims Partly Dismissed as Time-Barred