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  • United States v. White

    Publication Date: 2024-12-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 23-10194

    Appellant appealed his 120-month sentence for being a felon in possession arguing the district court improperly applied U.S.S.G. § 2A2.1(a)(2), the guideline for attempted murder, was supported by information external to the indictment and factual resume that led to erroneous findings that appellant acted with specific intent to kill and did not act in self-defense, because the application of the guideline based on judicial factfinding violated his right to a jury, and because the sentence was substantively unreasonable.

  • Phhhoto Inc. v. Meta Platforms Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-12-18
    Practice Area: Antitrust
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant: Irving Scher, on the brief, Scott Martin, Hausfeld LLP, New York, NY; Sarah LaFreniere, Hausfeld LLP, Washington, D.C.
    for defendant: Phillip F. Cramer, Sperling & Slater, LLC, Nashville, TN; Eamon P. Kelly & Nathan A. Shev, Sperling & Slater, LLC, Chicago, IL, for Josh Davis, Christopher R. Leslie, Robert H. Lande, Peter C. Carstensen, John B. Kirkwood, Edward D. Cavanaugh, Darren Bush & Harry First, as amici curiae Nada Djordjevic, DiCello Levitt LLP, Chicago IL; Gregory S. Asciolla, DiCello Levitt LLC, New York, NY; Robin A. van der Meulen, Scott & Scott Attorneys at Law LLP, New York, NY; Kristen Marttila, Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P., Minneapolis, MN, for The Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws, as amicus curiae For Defendant-Appellee: Alex Treiger, on the brief, Aaron M. Panner, Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C.
    Case Number: 23-763

    Sherman Act's Statute-of-Limitations Should Have Been Equitably Tolled; Claim Is Timely

  • Van Loon v. Dep't of the Treasury

    Publication Date: 2024-12-16
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Constitutional Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Willetts
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    Case Number: 23-50669

    In 2022, the Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Tornado Cash, an open-source, crypto-transaction software protocol that facilitates anonymous transactions by obfuscating the origins and destinations of digital asset transfers. Appellants, users of Tornado Cash, argued that inclusion of Tornado Cash on the Specially Designated National and Blocked Persons list exceeded OFAC's statutory authority.

  • Times v. Success Acad. Charter Sch. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-12-16
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
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    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, U.S. - SDNY
    Judge: District Judge Denise Cote
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Plaintiff Jerald Times, appearing pro se.
    for defendant: For Defendants: Diane Windholz, Laura Victorelli, Jackson Lewis P.C., New York, NY.
    Case Number: 22cv3229

    Questions Exists on Whether Plaintiff Would Have Been Fired Notwithstanding Email to HR

  • LKF v. MTF

    Publication Date: 2024-12-13
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Supreme Court, Nassau
    Judge: Justice Edmund M. Dane
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: (redacted)

    Court Orders Plaintiff to Put Money Back into 529 Accounts

  • Jones v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2024-12-13
    Practice Area: Public Utilities | Tax
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James W. Hurt, Jr., (Hurt Stolz, PC), Watkinsville, Irwin W. Stolz, Jr., (Hurt Stolz, PC), Athens, John Floyd Woodham, (Woodham Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joel Aldrich Jothan Callins, (City of Atlanta Law Department), Atlanta, Michael James King, Richard Joseph Valladares, Steven Jason Rosenwasser, Ernest Lamont Greer, (Greenberg Traurig, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0652

    Court affirms in part and reverses in part a challenge to certain ordinances connected to water bills to Atlanta residents, and remands for further analysis of atlanta utility fees

  • Comm'r, N.Y.S. Dept. of Transp. v. Polite

    Publication Date: 2024-12-13
    Practice Area: Native American Law
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    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department
    Judge: Justice Presiding Francesca E. Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellants-Respondents: Carol E. Heckman, Stephen D. Daly, and Lee M. Redeye of counsel, Lippes Mathias LLP, Buffalo, NY.
    for defendant: For Respondents-Appellants: Jeffrey W. Lang and Jonathan D. Hitsous of counsel, Letitia James, Attorney General, Albany, NY. For Respondents: Sean F. Byrnes, pro hac vice, and John F. Byrnes, pro hac vice, of counsel, Shawn J. Wallach, New York, NY.
    Case Number: 2020-05133

    Indian Officials May Be Sued in NY Courts to Enjoin Off-Reservation Breaches of State Law

  • Whitaker Farms, LLC v. Fitzgerald Fruit Farms, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-12-12
    Practice Area: Damages | Evidence
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank Mitchell Lowrey, Edwin Allen Page, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, John A. Christy, Jonathan Andrew Akins, (Schreeder Wheeler & Flint, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Max Paul Marks, Aaron Karl Block, (The Block Firm LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23G1162

    Court vacates and remands affirmation of a punitive damages award in a commercial lease dispute for assessment of admissibility of settlement statements on a punitive damages claim

  • MSV Synergy LLC v. Saadia Shapiro, Shapiro & Assoc. Attorneys at Law PLLC

    Publication Date: 2024-12-11
    Practice Area: Dispute Resolution
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    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, U.S. - SDNY
    Judge: District Judge Edgardo Ramos
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 21 Civ. 7578

    All Claims Related to SPA, Escrow AgreementAre Within Scope of Arbitration Provision

  • Karl v. Schneider

    Publication Date: 2024-12-11
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: A-0717-23

    Defendant appealed judgment in favor of plaintiff and the subsequent rejection of his newly-raised challenge to hearsay.