• December 17, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Harassment on Campus

    No one supports free speech rights more than this board. But we also recognize the limits of the First Amendment and the utter hypocrisy in the failure of these institutions to protect their Jewish students.

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  • In the Matter of Carl Lawrence Collins.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-15
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, III, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carl Lawrence Collins, (Law Office of Carl Collins III), Southfield, for appellee; Michael J Blakely, Jr., (The Blakely Firm), Decatur, for other party.

    Case Number: S23Y1064

    Court accepts lawyer's petition for voluntary suspension of his law license pending his appeal of criminal convictions for filing false tax returns

  • Lux Building, Inc. v. Inn Construction Corporation

    Publication Date: 2023-12-15
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Kings
    Judge: Justice Aaron D Maslow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 506996/2023

    Defendant Failed to Meet Its Burden That Their Principal Place of Business Was in Nassau

  • In the Matter of W. McCall Calhoun, Jr.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-15
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jenny K. Mittelman, Paula J. Frederick, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta,, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donald Clarence Evans, Jr., (Evans & Rhodes, LLC), Cartersville, for appellee; LaRae Dixon Moore, (Page Scrantom Sprouse Tucker & Ford PC), Columbus, for other party.

    Case Number: S23Y1160

    Court suspends attorney law license pending appeal of his felony and misdemeanor convictions related to his participation in the siege of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021

  • Ateres Bais Yaakov Academy of Rockland v. Town of Clarkstown

    Publication Date: 2023-12-15
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Contractual Disputes | Land Use and Planning
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Barrington D. Parker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant: Yehudah L. Buchweitz, Kevin M. Simmons, David Yolkut, on the briefs, Joshua Halpern, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Washington, DC, Dallas, TX & New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellees: John M. Flannery, on the brief, Eliza M. Scheibel, Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker LLP, White Plains, NY.

    Case Number: 22-1741-cv

    RLUIPA Suiut Remanded; Finality Attached to Zoning Ruling, Article III Traceability Met

  • December 14, 2023 | Law.com

    Growing Number of Law Firms Want to Add Office Space: The Morning Minute

    Want to get this daily news briefing by email? Here's the sign-up. WHAT WE'RE WATCHING DOUBLE SPACED - Don't put that Garfield coffee mug…

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  • People of the State of New York v. Red Rose Rescue

    Publication Date: 2023-12-14
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, U.S. - SDNY
    Judge: District Judge Kenneth M. Karas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for Plaintiff: Heather McKay, Esq., Julia K. Toce, Esq., Sandra E. Pullman, Esq., Zoe Ridolfi-Starr, Esq., Office of the New York Attorney General, New York, Rochester, and Watertown, NY.
    for defendant: Counsel for Defendants Red Rose Rescue, Christopher Moscinski, Matthew Connolly, William Goodman, Laura Gies, and John Hinshaw: Christopher A. Ferrara, Esq., Thomas More Society, Whitestone, NY. Counsel for Defendant Christopher Moscinski: Dennis J. Ring, Esq., Law Office of Dennis J. Ring, Whitestone, NY. Counsel for Defendant Laura Gies: Catherine Short, Esq., Life Legal Defense Foundation, Ojai, CA. Counsel for Defendant Laura Gies: John P. Margand, Esq., Law Offices of John P. Margand, P.C., Yonkers, NY. Counsel for Interested Party the United States of America: Amanda M. Lee, Esq., U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY.

    Case Number: 23-CV-4832

    Preliminary Injunction Only Partly Granted; Its Scope Limited to SDNY, EDNY

  • In the Matter of Cory Howerton Fleming.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-14
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas A. Pendarvis, (Pendarvis Law Offices PC), Beaufort, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, III, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23Y0970

    Court accepts attorney's petition for voluntary surrender of his law license in a disciplinary matter relating to representation of a client in a wrongful death action against Alexander Murdaugh

  • December 13, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

    People in the News—Dec. 13, 2023—Unruh Turner, Eastburn and Gray

    Attorney John K. Fiorillo, a partner at Unruh Turner Burke & Frees recently presented at the Real Estate Institute, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's flagship program on real estate law.

    4 minute read

  • U.S. v. Mendonca

    Publication Date: 2023-12-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Gerard E. Lynch
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellee: Kevin Trowel, Marietou Diouf, Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief, Genny Ngai, Assistant United States Attorney, for Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellant: Sarah Baumgartel, Federal Defenders of New York, Inc., Appeals Bureau, New York, NY.

    Case Number: 22-826-cr

    Challenges to Conviction Were Not Properly Preserved Below; Judgment Is Affirmed