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  • November 12, 2024 | Supreme Court Brief

    Justices Hear 'Ancient' Rule About Filing Deadlines, Mob Associate's 25-Year Prison Sentence

    What happens when a filing deadling falls on a Saturday? Did a Genovese mafia family associate commit a "crime of violence"?

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  • Knudsen v. MetLife Group, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-07
    Practice Area: Employment Compliance
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Justice McKee
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Gokey and Carl F. Engstrom (Engstrom Lee)
    for defendant: James O. Fleckner, Christopher J.C. Herbert, and David Rosenberg (Goodwin Procter); Jaime A. Santos (Goodwin Procter)
    Case Number: 23-2420

    Health Insurance Plan Participants Lacked Standing by Failing to Show that Administrator's Retention of Rebates Directly Caused Increase Expenses

  • In re: Cognizant Tech. Solutions Corp. Derivative Litig.

    Publication Date: 2024-05-20
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Justice Fuentes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William B. Federman (Federman & Sherwood); Matthew F. Gately, Peter S. Pearlman (Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf); Benny C. Goodman, III, Steven Hubachek, Erik W. Luedeke (Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd); James M. Ficaro, Robert B. Weiser (The Weiser Law Firm); Gary S. Graifman (Kantrowitz Goldhamer & Graifman); Britt W. Sowle (Cavanagh & O’Hara); Melissa A. Fortunato (Bragar Eagel & Squire); Ligaya T. Hernandez, Michael J. Hynes (Hynes Keller & Hernandez); James S. Notis (Gardy & Notis); Jennifer Sarnelli (Gardy & Notis)
    for defendant: Charles A. Brown, Daniel P. Roeser (Goodwin Procter); William Evans (Goodwin Procter); William M. Jay (Goodwin Procter); Sarah D. Efronson, Rajeev Muttreja (Jones Day); Christopher J. Keale, James H. Keale (Tanenbaum Keale); Theodore V. Wells, Jr., Andrew J. Ehrlich, Alison R. Benedon (Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison); Matthew D. Stachel (Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison)
    Case Number: 22-3027

    Under a De Novo Standard of Appellate Review, District Court Correctly Concluded Shareholders Failed to Demonstrate Lack of Independence of a Majority of the Board

  • May 10, 2024 | Litigation Daily

    Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

    Runners-up this week include litigators at Cooley, Kramer Levin and Varnum.

    6 minute read

  • May 3, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

    En Banc Panel Adopts New Appellate Standard: Shareholder Suit Dismissed Against Cognizant

    Cognizant agreed to pay $25 million to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 2019 to settle charges that the payments it made to Indian government officials violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

    4 minute read

  • March 19, 2024 | National Law Journal

    Justices Give Judges More Power to Review Immigration Decisions

    "Mixed questions of law and fact, even when they are primarily factual, fall within the statutory definition of 'questions of law' ... and are therefore reviewable," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for the majority.

    5 minute read

  • December 21, 2023 | Litigation Daily

    Encore! One Last Look at 2023's Litigators of the Week

    With one more LOTW set to be named tomorrow, a familiar firm has already clinched the most top spots for the year.

    16 minute read

  • Cunningham v. Cornell Univ.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-17
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees: Jerome J. Schlichter, Heather Lea, and Joel D. Rohlf, on the brief, Sean E. Soyars, Schlichter Bogard & Denton LLP, St. Louis, MO.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants: Nancy G. Ross, Samuel P. Myler, and Jed W. Glickstein, on the brief, Michael A. Scodro, Mayer Brown LLP, Chicago, IL; Michelle N. Webster, on the brief, Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, DC, for Cornell University, The Retirement Plan Oversight Committee, and Mary G. Opperman. For CapFinancial Partners, LLC: Eric S. Mattson, Joseph R. Dosch, and Meredith R. Aska McBride, on the brief, Caroline A. Wong, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, IL. For Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America and American Benefits Council, amici curiae in support of Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants: Jaime A. Santos and William M. Jay, Goodwin Procter LLP, Washington, DC; James O. Fleckner and Alison V. Douglass, Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston, MA; Stephanie A. Maloney, U.S. Chamber Litigation Center, Washington, DC.
    Case Number: 21-88-cv

    Retirement Plan Participants Fail to Plausibly Allege 'Prohibited Transactions' Claim

  • August 7, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Following Schnader Dissolution, Phila. Midsize Firms Fight to Stay Midsize

    "There are some other firms similar to Schnader that are probably worried they could be looking at the same fate," said Brian Levinson, managing partner of the legal recruiting firm Alevistar Legal.

    8 minute read

  • June 14, 2023 | Law.com

    Critical Mass With Law.com's Amanda Bronstad: Judge Ends 3M's Earplug Bankruptcy, Jury's $72M Wildfire Verdict Could Explode

    Welcome to Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass, a weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys. This week: A bankruptcy judge dismissed…

    6 minute read