• American Akaushi v. Twinwood Cattle

    Publication Date: 2025-02-24
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Contractual Disputes
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Jewell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 14-21-00701-CV

    Appellee Twinwood Cattle Company purchased 210 head of full blood Akaushi cattle from appellant HeartBrand Holdings in August 2009.

  • Appellate Division, Second Department: February 21, 2025

    Publication Date: 2025-02-21
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department, Hand Down Lists
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: DOCKET

    Handdowns released on:February 18 & 19, 2025

  • Wasserman v. Franklin County

    Publication Date: 2025-02-20
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Constitutional Law
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George E. Butler, II, (Law Offices of George E. Butler II, LLC), Dahlonega, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eric James O’Brien, Timothy Joseph Buckley, III, (Buckley Christopher, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee; Stephen John Petrany, Ross Warren Bergethon, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.

    Case Number: S23G1029

    Court Overrules Precedent and Rejects Federal Third-Party Standing Doctrine in a Real Estate Zoning Case Based on Equal Protection Arguments, and Remands for Further Analysis

  • Clarke v. Town of Newburgh

    Publication Date: 2025-02-10
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department
    Judge: Justice Cheryl E. Chambers
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellants: Robert A. Spolzino, Jeffrey A. Cohen, David Imamura, Steven Still, and Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School [Ruth Greenwood, Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, Daniel Hessel, and Samuel Jacob Davis, pro hac vice], of counsel, Abrams Fensterman, LLP, White Plains, NY.
    for defendant: For Respondents: Misha Tseytlin and Bennet J. Moskowitz of counsel, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, New York, NY. Intervenor-Appellant Pro Se: Barbara D. Underwood, Judith Vale, Andrea Trento, Beezly J. Kiernan, Sandra Park, Lindsay McKenzie, and Derek Borchardt of counsel, Letitia James, Attorney General, New York, NY. Amicus Curiae Pro Se and for Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California: Robert Brent Ferguson of counsel, Campaign Legal Center, Washington, DC. Amicus Curiae Pro Se: Adam Lioz, Samuel Spital, Stuart Naifeh, Michael Pernick, and Maia Cole of counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York, NY. For Amici Curiae Town of Mount Pleasant and Town Board of the Town of Mount Pleasant: Ariana Dindiyal, Robert J. Tucker, Erika D. Prouty, Rebecca Schrote, and E. Mark Braden of counsel, Baker & Hostetler, LLP, New York, NY. For Amicus Curiae Town of Cheektowaga: Joseph Burns of counsel, Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak, PLLC, Buffalo, NY.

    Case Number: 2024-04376

    90-Day Safe Harbor Not Triggered by Resolution to Remedy Voting Rights Violation

  • Whitaker v. State of Texas

    Publication Date: 2025-02-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Rivas-Molloy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 14-22-00923-CR

    Appellant pled guilty to robbery with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment.

  • Peterson v. Bank Markazi

    Publication Date: 2025-02-04
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Robert D. Sack
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellees: Patrick L. Rocco, Susan M. Davies, Fleischman Bonner & Rocco LLP, White Plains, New York, Liviu Vogel, Salon Marrow Dyckman, Newman & Broudy LLC, New York, New York, on the brief, James P. Bonner, Fleischman Bonner & Rocco LLP, White Plains, New York.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellant Bank Markazi: Lauren M. Weinstein, MoloLamken LLP, Washington, D.C., Elizabeth K. Clarke, MoloLamken LLP, Chicago, Illinois, on the brief, Robert K. Kry, MoloLamken LLP, Washington, D.C. For Defendant-Appellant Clearstream Banking, S.A.: Craig T. Cagney, Corey M. Meyer, on the brief, Benjamin Kaminetzky, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York, New York.

    Case Number: 15-690-cv

    Court Lack Jurisdiction Over Turn-Over Claim Against Iran's Central Bank Immune Under FSIA

  • Appellate Division, Second Department: February 3, 2025

    Publication Date: 2025-02-03
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department, Hand Down List
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: DOCKET

    Handdown List released on:January 30, 2025

  • TC Services USA Inc. v. York Healthcare LLC

    Publication Date: 2025-02-03
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Queens
    Judge: Justice Marguerite A. Grays
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 726318/2023

    Permanent Injunction of Circular 230 Allows Court to Dismiss Claim

  • January 30, 2025 | National Law Journal

    What’s at Stake in Supreme Court Case Over Religious Charter School?

    The case is the latest—and arguably biggest—test of the conservative majority’s appetite to remove legal barriers for religious groups seeking to participate in taxpayer-funded programs, with religious schools currently excluded from every state charter school program around the country.

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  • January 24, 2025 | National Law Journal

    Supreme Court Takes Up Case Over Approval of Religious Charter School

    The question now facing the justices is whether religious schools must be eligible to participate in a state's publicly funded charter school system.

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