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  • March 9, 2018 | New York Law Journal

    Dismissal, Sanctions Upheld in Ex-Allen & Overy Lawyer's Sexual Harassment Suit Against Firm

    The lawsuit brought by Deidre Holmes Clark, once a senior attorney at the firm's Moscow office, was thrown out after she repeatedly refused to submit to a court-ordered psychological exam.

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  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-03-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald Richard Parker (Georgia Public Defender Standards Council), Bainbridge; Katherine Lynn Dodd (Southwest Georgia Conflict Division-GPDC), Americus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew David O'Brien (Department of Law), Atlanta; Gregory W. Edwards, Kathryn O. Fallin (Dougherty County District Attorney's Office), Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1526

    Even assuming that defense counsel was deficient in opening the door for the prosecution to elicit otherwise inadmissible evidence of defendant's bad character, defendant could not show that the allegedly deficient performance prejudiced him, in light of the strong evidence of his guilt, and thus could not prove his ineffective assistance of counsel claim in connection with his convictions for felony murder and armed robbery.

  • Karwowski v. 1407 Broadway Real Estate LLC

    Publication Date: 2018-03-08
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Construction | Real Estate
    Court: Appellate Division, First Department
    Judge: Justice Barbara Kapnick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For appellant-respondent: Gregory J. Cannata of counsel, Gregory J. Cannata & Associates, LLP, New York.
    for defendant: For respondent-appellant: Sim R. Shapiro, Robert C. Baxter and Jennifer Warycha of counsel, Baxter Smith & Shapiro, P.C., Hicksville.; For respondent: David Weiser of counsel, Weiser & McCarthy, New York.
    Case Number: 595174/14

    All Needed to Trigger Indemnity Provision Was Claim Arising From Act by Tenant, Contractor

  • March 7, 2018 | National Law Journal

    Opioid Judge Allows Some Discovery, Motions to Go Forward in MDL

    U.S. District Judge Dan Polster in Cleveland told lawyers in the multidistrict litigation to come up with a plan by March 16 over the scope and timing of a “litigation track.”

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  • March 6, 2018 | New York Law Journal

    Corporate and Not-For-Profit Tenants

    In their Rent Stabilization column, Warren Estis and Jeffrey Turkel discuss the rights of owners and non-corporeal tenants under the RSL.

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  • March 6, 2018 |

    Fire Ins. Exch. v. Oltmanns

    Click Here for FC&S Legal Expert Analysis Fire Ins. Exch. v. OltmannsSupreme Court of UtahFebruary 28, 2018, FiledNo. 20160304 FIRE INSURANCE…

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  • ACE Partners LLC v. Town of East Hartford,

    Publication Date: 2018-03-06
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Renna Raggi
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellee: James R. Smart, Rory M. Farrell, on the brief, Daniel J. Klau, McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP, Hartford, Connecticut.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellants: Katherine E. Rule, on the brief, Thomas R. Gerarde, Howd & Ludorf, LLC, Hartford, Connecticut.
    Case Number: 14-3831-cv

    Connecticut Law Does Not Afford Pawn Shop's Operator a Constitutionally Protected Property

  • Towner v. Cnty. of Tioga

    Publication Date: 2018-03-06
    Practice Area: Discovery
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, U.S. - NDNY
    Judge: Magistrate Judge David Peebles
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff: Ronald R. Benjamin, Esq., of Counsel, Benjamin Law Office, Binghamton, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendants: Frank W. Miller, Esq., Charles C. Spagnoli, Esq., of Counsel, Frank Miller Law Office, East Syracuse, NY.
    Case Number: 3:15-CV-0963

    Bulk of Withheld Documents Not Subject to Disclosure; Email Did Not Mention Legal Advice

  • Altesse Healthcare Solutions, Inc. v. Wilson

    Publication Date: 2018-03-05
    Practice Area: Business Torts | Contractual Disputes
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 16-0922

    The defendants (Allen and Becky Wilson) owned a healthcare company. In June 2014, they sold their business to Altesse for $800,000, to be paid in installments.

  • Lee v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2018-03-05
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Fernandez-Vina
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen M. Orlofsky (Blank Rome and Archer & Greiner, attorneys; Stephen M. Orlofsky, Adrienne C. Rogove, Frank D. Allen, and William J. O'Kane, Jr., on the briefs); Denis F. Driscoll (Inglesino Webster Wyciskala & Taylor, attorney; Denis F. Driscoll, Nicholas A. Grieco, Alyssa E. Spector, and Owen T. Weaver, of counsel and on the briefs)
    for defendant: Steward M. Leviss (Berkowitz, Lichtstein, Kuritskym, Giasullo & Gross, attorneys; Stewart M. Leviss, on the briefs); S. Robert Princiotto (Marcus & Levy, attorneys; S. Robert Princiotto, on the briefs); Richard J. Abrahamsen (Abrahamsen Law Firm, attorneys; Richard J. Abrahamsen, on the briefs); Dennis J. Cummins, Jr. (Dennis J. Cummins, on the letter-brief)
    Case Number: A-7/8-16 (078043)

    Defendants Entitled to Absolute Immunity Where Alleged Causative Conduct Was Failure to Enforce Buillding Codes