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  • TransPerfect Global, Inc. v. Pincus

    Publication Date: 2022-06-28
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank E. Noyes, II, Offit Kurman, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Adam K. Bult, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP, Las Vegas, NV; Jeremy Eicher, Eicher Law LLC, Wilmington, DE; Alan M. Dershowitz, Cambridge, MA for appellants.
    for defendant: Jennifer C. Voss, Cliff C. Gardner, Elisa M.C. Klein, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
    Case Number: D69868

    Chancery court erred in holding company's majority shareholder and controller in contempt of violating an exclusive jurisdiction order where shareholder was not a party to the out-of-state action filed in contempt of the chancery court's order and where controlling stake did not itself make shareholder personally liable for the company's conduct.

  • Danskammer Energy LLC v. NYS Dept. of Envtl. Conservation

    Publication Date: 2022-06-28
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: Energy
    Court: Supreme Court, Orange
    Judge: Justice Robert Onofry
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for Petitioner-Plaintiff: Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Albany, New York. Steven C. Russo, New York, New York. Brenda Colella, Barclay Damon Tower, Syracuse, New York.
    for defendant: For the State Respondents: Joshua Michael Tallent, Assistant Attorney General, the Capitol, Albany, New York. Attorneys for Proposed Amicus Curiae Independent Power Producers of New York, Inc: Read And Laniado, LLP, Albany, New York. Attorneys for proposed Amicus Curiae New York State AFL-CIO, New York State Building and Construction Trades Council, and Hudson Valley Building and Construction Trades Council: Colleran, O'Hara & Mills LLP, Woodbury, New York. Attorneys for proposed Amicus Curiae Astoria Gas Turbine Power LLC: Barclay Damon LLP, Albany, New York. Attorneys for proposed Amicus Curiae Mitsubishi Power: Holland & Knight LLP, New York, New York. Attorney for Proposed Amicus Curiae The Peak Coalition: New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, New York, New York. Attorneys for Proposed Amicus Curiae Sierra Club and Orange RAPP: Earth Justice, New York, New York.
    Case Number: EF008396-2021

    DEC Has Authority Under the CLCPA to Deny Permit Application

  • Industrial Specialists v. Blanchard Refining

    Publication Date: 2022-06-27
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure | Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boyd
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-0174

    Both parties of a litigation, that argued that the appellate court erred in refusing to permit an interlocutory permissive appeal, failed to prove to the Supreme Court of Texas why they were entitled to relief.

  • Paxton v. Longoria

    Publication Date: 2022-06-27
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Election and Political Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Huddle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 22-0224

    The court ruled that the Texas rule against public officials soliciting submission of applications to vote by mail is broadly defined.

  • In the Interest of T.B., a Child.

    Publication Date: 2022-06-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Yolanda Bacharach, Amanda Jones Walker, (Eastern Judicial Circuit Office of the Public Defender), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Lanier Edwards, Nancy Michele Harris, Shalena Cook Jones, Brittany Lee Padgett, Margaret Ellen Heap, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Savannah, for appellee; Randee J. Waldman, (Emory University School of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant; Bradford Lee Rigby, Shannon Glover Wallace, (Cordele Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Canton,, Cordele, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., William D. Johnson, (Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia), Morrow, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0287

    Insanity and Delusional-Compulsion Defenses Are Available in Most Delinquency Proceedings

  • Gude v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-06-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jordan Kerry Van Matre, (The Law Office of Jordan K. Van Matre, PC), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0406

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Admitting "In-Life" Photo Of Murder Victim Through His Mother's Testimony

  • Ressler v. Farrell Fritz, P.C.

    Publication Date: 2022-06-23
    Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice David Cohen
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 156946/2020

    Attorneys Not Negligent for Failing to Act Beyond the Scope of the Retainer

  • General Motors, LLC v. Buchanan et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-06-23
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Consumer Protection | Products Liability | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Automotive | Manufacturing
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Robert Blackwell, Cari Katrice Dawson, Jamie S. George, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, Laurie Webb Daniel, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Atlanta, Charles B. Marsh, Myrece R. Johnson, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP), Atlanta, Brian Patrick Kappel, Michael Lester Bell, Rachel McCulley Lary, Christopher Cameron Yearout, (Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC), Birmingham, Jonathan Bradley Spital, (Holland & Knight LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick Alan Dawson, Lance Alan Cooper, (The Cooper Firm), Marietta, James Darren Summerville, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Anna Green Cross, (The Cross Firm, LLC), Decatur, for appellee; Richard B. North, Jr., Christopher Shaun Polston, Steven H. Campbell, (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP), Atlanta, Nicole A. Saharsky, Minh Nguyen-Dang, (Mayer Brown LLP), Washington, Charles Haake, David Edward Bright, (Alliance Of Automobile Manufacturers), Washington, Alexander Bunnen Feinberg, Mary Kathryn Mangan, John Cowles Neiman, Jr., (Maynard Cooper & Gale P.C.), Birmingham, Leah Ward Sears, Edward H. Wasmuth, Jr., (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, William V. Custer, IV, Christian James Bromley, (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP), Atlanta, Rocco Eugene Testani, Lee Alexander Peifer, (Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP), Atlanta, Philip S. Goldberg, Anna Sumner Pieschel, (Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP), Atlanta, Andrew Thomas Bayman, Chilton D. Varner, Billie Barker Pritchard, Paul Alessio Mezzina, (King & Spalding LLP), Washington, Christopher M. Carr, Drew F. Waldbeser, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant; Darren Wade Penn, Kevin M. Ketner, (Penn Law LLC), Atlanta, Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Gainesville, Nkosi John Bey, (American Association for Justice), Washington, Christopher Dean Glover, (Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.), Atlanta, Lindsay Alexandra Forlines, (Forlines Law, LLC), Atlanta, Stephen Roberts Chance, (Watkins, Lourie, Roll & Chance, PC.), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S21G1147

    Corporate Defendant Had Burden of Persuasion to Show High-Ranking Executive Was Entitled to Protection From Deposition

  • Gotham Equip. & Rigging LLC v. Mhany Cortelyou LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-06-21
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Leon Ruchelsman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 527028/2021

    Construction Materials Supplier Has No Lien Law Claims Against General Contractor

  • M&B Bldg. Owners I, LLC v. Artglass Intl., LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-06-21
    Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Nancy Bannon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 656464/2021

    Landlord Not Entitled Recover Amount that Exceeds Demand in Complaint in Default Judgment