• New York County, Surrogate's Court: January 22, 2025

    Publication Date: 2025-01-22
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Surrogate, New York County
    Judge: Surrogate Hillary Gingold and Rita Mella
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: DOCKET

    Decision and Orders & Decree and Orders signed between:January 14-16, 2025

  • Bennett v. The State

    Publication Date: 2025-01-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicole E. Baker, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Acworth, Ralph James Villani, (Office of the Appellate Defender), Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Grace Guthrie Griffith, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Julia Kalleen Greene, Lee Darragh, (Hall County District Attorney’s Office), Gainesville, Anna Victoria Fowler, (Northeastern Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Gainesville, for appellee.

    Case Number: S24A1374

    Court Affirms Convictions in Attempted Robbery and Fatal Shooting of Elderly Victim, Rejecting Defendant's Challenges to Evidence and Jury Instructions

  • City of New York v. Exxon Mobil Corp.

    Publication Date: 2025-01-22
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Anar Rathod Patel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 451071/2021

    Suit Dismissed By Court, City Defendants Failed to State A Cause of Action

  • New Yorkers for Religious Liberty Inc. v. Keil

    Publication Date: 2025-01-22
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellants: Barry Black, Nelson Madden Black LLP, New York, NY; Sujata Sidhu Gibson, Gibson Law Firm PLLC, Ithaca, NY, on the brief, John J. Bursch, Bursch Law PLLC, Caledonia, MI.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellees: Richard Dearing, Devin Slack, on the brief, Susan Paulson, for Hon. Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, New York, NY.

    Case Number: 22-1801

    Second Circuit Dismisses Request for Relief in the Form of Recission of Vaccine Mandate

  • Simpson-Quin v. Montejano

    Publication Date: 2025-01-22
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, U.S. - SDNY
    Judge: District Judge Margaret M. Garnett
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 23-cv-08113

    Court Dismisses Defamation Claims as Time-Barred and for Lack of Specificity

  • January 21, 2025 | Texas Lawyer

    Lawyer to Be Deposed: 2 Courts Abused Discretion in Google Suits

    In a case of first impression, the Fifteenth Court of Appeals held Google can depose the state of Texas in a deceptive-trade practices lawsuit.

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  • January 21, 2025 | New York Law Journal

    Court of Appeals Provides Comfort to Land Use Litigants Through the Relation Back Doctrine

    In his Zoning and Land Use column, John Armentano discusses the Court of Appeals decision in ‘Nemeth v. K-Tooling,’ which gives litigants, especially land use litigants, some additional “breathing room” to work with when they fail to name all the parties to an action when they first initiate it.

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  • Appellate Division, First Department: January 21, 2022

    Publication Date: 2025-01-21
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department, Appeals & Motions
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: DOCKET

    Appeals & Motions List released on:January 16, 2025

  • Capitol Records LLC v. Vimeo Inc.

    Publication Date: 2025-01-21
    Practice Area: Copyrights
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Pierre N. Leval
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellants: Nathaniel A.G. Zelinsky, Hogan Lovells, US LLP, Washington, D.C.; Russell J. Frackman, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, Los Angeles, CA, on the brief, Catherine E. Stetson, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, D.C.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellees: Todd Anten, Owen F. Roberts, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY; Michael A. Cheah, Vimeo, Inc. & Rachel Kassabian, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Redwood Shores, CA, on the brief, Kathleen M. Sullivan, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, California. For amici curiae, National Music Publishers' Association, Recording Industry Association of America, and Copyright Alliance, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants: Hyland Hunt, Ruthanne M. Deutsch, Alexandra Mansbach, Deutsch Hunt PLLC, Washington, DC. For amicus curiae, Computer & Communications Industry Association, in support of Defendants-Appellees: Matthew C. Schruers, Alexandra Sternburg, Computer & Communications Industry Association, Washington, DC. For amicus curiae, Electronic Frontier Foundation, in support of Defendants-Appellees: Mitchell L. Stoltz, Corynne McSherry, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA. For amici curiae, Intellectual Property Scholars in Support of Defendants-Appellees: Rebecca Tushnet, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA.

    Case Number: 21-2949(L)

    Video Streaming Site Protected by Digital Millennium Copyright Act Safe Harbor Provision

  • In The Matter of R.R.

    Publication Date: 2025-01-20
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Kennedy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 05-23-01008-CV

    In 2022, when appellant was fourteen years old, the state filed an original adjudication petition alleging appellant had engaged in delinquent conduct, namely unlawful carrying of a weapon.