• February 9, 2023 | New York Law Journal

    Manhattan Supreme Court Sees First 'Dual Jury' Trial in Decades

    Across the East River, multiple jury trials in Brooklyn Supreme Court are "common," said Judge Matthew D'Emic, administrative judge for criminal and Supreme Court matters in Brooklyn. He added a multiple-jury case had happened in Brooklyn as recently as a few weeks ago.

    7 minute read

  • Marion v. Bryn Mawr Trust Co.

    Publication Date: 2023-02-06
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 72 MAP 2021

    Court expressly adopted aiding and abetting fraud as a cause of action, which required proving that a defendant had actual knowledge of an underlying fraud and actively provided assistance or encouragement. Order of the superior court affirmed in part and reversed in part.

  • ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project v. ICE

    Publication Date: 2023-02-02
    Practice Area: Information Governance and Compliance | Public Records
    Industry: Federal Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Reena Raggi
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant: Michael Tan; Cody Wofsy, American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants' Rights Project, San Francisco, CA; Carmen G. Iguina Gonzalez, American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants' Rights Project, Washington, DC, on the brief, Noor Zafar, American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants' Rights Project, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellee: Benjamin H. Torrance, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief, Zachary Bannon, Assistant United States Attorney, for Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY. For Amici Curiae The American Immigration Council, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Emily Ryo, Ingrid Eagly, Tom Wong, American Oversight, Open the Government, National Immigrant Justice Center, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, in support of Plaintiff-Appellant: Emily J. Creighton, American Immigration Council, Washington, DC. For Amicus Curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation, in support of Plaintiff-Appellant: David Greene, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA. For Amici Curiae The Center for Investigative Reporting, The Media Law Resource Center, Inc., and The MuckRock Foundation, in support of Plaintiff-Appellant: Mason A. Kortz, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA.

    Case Number: 21-1233

    Circuit Approves Use of Neutral Unique IDs in ICE Spreadsheet Data on Deportation Process

  • January 31, 2023 | National Law Journal

    Court Overturns $185M Fee Award for Quinn Emanuel in ACA Litigation

    The panel, in vacating and reversing the claims court's decision, noted that it was an "extraordinarily high award."

    3 minute read

  • Q3 Inv. Recovery Veh. LLC v. McEvoy

    Publication Date: 2023-01-31
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Andrea Masley
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 657090/2020

    Breach of Fiduciary Duty Claim Fails to Show Relationship Between Analyst, Investors

  • Harris v. Harris

    Publication Date: 2023-01-31
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Accounting | Biotechnology
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel Friedlander, Christopher M. Foulds, David Hahn, Friedlander & Gorris, P.A., Wilmington, DE; S. Michael Sirkin, R. Garrett Rice, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington DE; Gregory Lomax, Lauletta Birnbaum, Sewell, NJ; Jill Guldin, Fisher Broyles, LLP, Princeton, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: David A. Jenkins, Julie M. O’Dell, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP; Wilmington, DE; Steven L. Caponi, Matthew B. Goeller, Megan E. O’Connor, K&L Gates LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kurt M. Heyman, Patricia L. Enerio, Gillian L. Andrews, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; John L. Reed, Ronald N. Brown, III, Peter H. Kyle, Kelly L. Freund, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE; Neal J. Levitsky, E. Chaney Hall, Fox Rothschild LLP, Wilmington, DE; Emily A. Kaller, Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP, Woodbridge, NJ; William M. Kelleher, Phillip A. Giordano, Madeline Silverman, Gordon, Fournaris & Mammarella, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: 2019-0736-JTL

    Person serving in role akin to corporate officer could be served under the Delaware Officer Consent Statute even without formally accepting a title.

  • Dodd v. My Sisters' Place Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-01-27
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, U.S. - SDNY
    Judge: District Judge Vincent L. Briccetti
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21 CV 10987 (VB)

    In Employment Discrimination Case, Retaliation Claims Against One Board Member Survive

  • January 20, 2023 | Law.com

    What's Behind London's Partner Hiring Frenzy?

    It's certainly not a busy deal market, writes the London Lawyer. There's something else going on.

    4 minute read

  • January 19, 2023 | New York Law Journal

    The Business Case for Dispute Prevention Processes

    The benefits of dispute prevention—triggered much earlier than traditional dispute resolution processes—should be deployed by businesses in broader commercial contexts to mitigate the risk that early disagreements grow into impediments to project completion, litigation and costly damages.

    9 minute read

  • M&K Imports LLC v. Rejuveneda Med. Grp. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-01-19
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, U.S. - SDNY
    Judge: District Judge Vincent L. Briccetti
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22 CV 2606

    Breach Claim Dismissed; Corporate Veil Not Pierced; Dominion Over Escrow Agent Alleged