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  • July 2, 2018 | Litigation Daily

    'Army' of Lawyers on Standby to Back Kavanaugh

    A swath of Washington's legal establishment is ready to jump into action if Brett Kavanaugh gets the nod this month.

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  • July 2, 2018 | Litigation Daily

    Daily Dicta: Down but Not Out—Three Big Cases With Big Reversals

    There's a board game for little kids called “Chutes and Ladders” that often left mine in tears—one minute, you're almost at the top and about to win; the next, you've plunged to the bottom. It's a lot like litigation, as these three cases show.

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  • Appellate Division, First Department: June 28, 2018

    Publication Date: 2018-07-02
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Appellate Division, First Department
    Judge: Unsigned
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    Case Number: DOCKET

    Appellate Division, First Department: June 28, 2018

  • APPELLATE DIVISION : FOURTH DEPARTMENT: JUNE 29, 2018

    Publication Date: 2018-07-02
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, Fourth Department
    Judge: Unsigned
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    Case Number: DOCKET

    APPELLATE DIVISION : FOURTH DEPARTMENT: JUNE 29, 2018

  • In The Interest Of H O

    Publication Date: 2018-07-02
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Keyes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 01-17-00633-CV

    Mother and child tested positive for amphetamines at the time of birth.

  • Ferrara v. Nutt

    Publication Date: 2018-07-02
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Contractual Disputes | Real Estate
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Keyes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 01-17-00084-CV

    Appellant entered into an agreement with appellee Nutt to lease residential property for a period of time and that appellant would purchase the property on or before August 2024.

  • In Re Xerox Corporation

    Publication Date: 2018-07-02
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Civil Procedure
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Guzman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 16-0671

    Texas sued Xerox under the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act, alleging that, while it was administering the Texas Medicaid program, Xerox misrepresented, concealed or failed to disclose certain material facts.

  • Matter of K.G. v. C.H.

    Publication Date: 2018-07-02
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, First Department
    Judge: Justice Judith Gische
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For appellant-respondent: Roberta A. Kaplan and John C. Quinn of counsel, Kaplan & Company LLP, New York, Danielle C. Lesser and Andrew P. Merten of counsel, Morrison Cohen LLP, New York, and Nancy Chemtob and Jeremy J. Bethel of counsel, Chemtob Moss & Forman, LLP, New York.
    for defendant: For respondent-appellant: Bonnie E. Rabin, Gretchen Beall Schumann, Tim James and Lindsay Pfeffer of counsel, Cohen Rabin Stine Schumann LLP, New York.; For amicus curiae: Virginia F. Tent, Matthew J. Pickel, Iris H. Xie and Naseem Faqihi Alawadhi of counsel, Latham & Watkins LLP, New York.
    Case Number: 309154/16

    Incomplete Record Bars Woman From Standing to Seek Custody of Unrelated, Nondaoptive Child

  • Terrell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-07-02
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clifford Louis Kurlander (Georgia Public Defender Council - Appellate Division), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Vanessa Therese Meyerhoefer (Department of Law), Atlanta; Paul L. Howard Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta; Arthur C. Walton (Fulton County Courthouse), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0478

    The Court affirmed defendant's convictions for murder and related crimes as the trial court did not deprive defendant of his right to testify on his own behalf when it informed him that he had to testify immediately or waive the right altogether.

  • Michael O. Mondy et al. v. Magnolia Advanced Materials, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-07-02
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Judges
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Oliver Mondy (Michael O. Mondy PC.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Erika Clarke Birg, Peter L. Munk (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17G1478

    When a motion to recuse the trial judge is filed after the judge has orally held a party's attorney in contempt, the recusal motion must be decided before the judge may properly proceed to enter a written contempt order.