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  • June 9, 2022 | Daily Report Online

    Beasley Allen Files Series of Meta Product Liability Lawsuits, Stressing Impact on Children's Mental Health

    The complaints allege company leaders knew for years that its platforms cause adverse psychological effects and physical health problems in young people, especially young girls.

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  • June 9, 2022 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Delaware Among Venues Seeing Meta Product Liability Lawsuits, Stressing Impact on Children's Mental Health

    The complaints filed so far are in Georgia, Florida, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas.

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  • Appellate Division, First Department:April 28, 2022

    Publication Date: 2022-05-02
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, First Department, Appeals & Motions
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: DOCKET

    Appellate Division, First Department:April 28, 2022

  • Sillam v. Labaton Sucharow LLP

    Publication Date: 2022-04-18
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Employment Litigation
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, U.S. - SDNY
    Judge: District Judge Colleen McMahon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 21 CV 6675

    Knowledge, Assistance in Fraud Not Pleaded; 2015 Settlement Bars Misrepresentation Claim

  • In re The Diocese of Buffalo NY

    Publication Date: 2022-04-01
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Non-Profit
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District
    Judge: Bankruptcy Judge Carl Bucki
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for The Diocese of Buffalo, N.Y.: Stephen A. Donato, Esq., Charles J. Sullivan, Esq., of counsel, Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC, Syracuse, New York.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Archbishop Walsh High School and Archbishop Walsh Foundation: Michael A. Morgan, Esq., of counsel, Morgan & Associates, PLLC, Olean, New York. Attorneys for Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors: Ilan D. Scharf, Esq., Brittany M. Michael, Esq., of counsel, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP, New York, New York. Co-Counsel for Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors: Scott Bogucki, Esq., of counsel, Gleichenhaus, Marchese & Weishaar, PC, Buffalo, New York. Joseph W. Allen, Esq., Assistant U.S. Trustee, Office of the U.S. Trustee, Olympic Towers, Buffalo, New York.
    Case Number: BK 20-10322

    Court Denies Debtor Diocese's Motion To Authorize Process for Sale of Campus

  • Olson v. Major League Baseball

    Publication Date: 2022-03-29
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Joseph Bianco
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees: Steven L. Bloch, on the brief, David S. Golub, John D. Radice, Kenneth Pickle, Natasha Fernandez-Silber, April Lambert, Radice Law Firm, P.C., Princeton, New Jersey, on the brief, Silver Golub & Teitell LLP, Stamford, Connecticut.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants: Benjamin R. Walker, Hannah Lonky Fackler, on the brief, John L. Hardiman, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, New York. For Interested Party-Appellee-Cross-Appellant: on the brief, Randy L. Levine, New York Yankees Partnership, Bronx, New York; Jonathan D. Schiller, Thomas H. Sosnowski, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, New York, New York.. For Defendant-Appellee Boston Red Sox Baseball Club, L.P.: Katherine B. Forrest, Michael T. Reynolds, Lauren A. Moskowitz, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, New York. For Defendant-Appellee Houston Astros, LLC: Clifford Thau, Marisa Antos-Fallon, on the brief, Hilary L. Preston, Michael C. Holmes, Vinson & Elkins LLP, Dallas, Texas, on the brief, Vinson & Elkins LLP, New York, New York.
    Case Number: 20-1831-cv

    Fantasy Sports Players' Fraud Claims Dismissed Against MLB Defendants

  • March 27, 2022 | Law.com

    Who Got the Work?℠: U.S. and Canadian Firms Guide $2B Cannabis Deal and More

    Welcome to "Who Got the Work?℠," a weekly column that highlights the law firms and lawyers around the country who are being brought in to handle…

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  • Black Voters Matter Fund Inc. et al. v. Kemp et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-24
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Court Administration | Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Thomas Rhodes, Samuel Aaron Emas, (Hunter Rhodes LLC), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Barrett Belinfante, Vincent Robert Russo, Jr., Javier Pico-Prats, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta, Holly Anne Pierson, (Pierson Law LLC), Atlanta, Russell David Willard, Lee M. Stoy, Jr., Christopher M. CarrBryan Keith Webb, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Wayne Brown, Samuel Ethan Meller, (Augusta Law Department), Augusta, George R. Hall, William James Keogh, III, James Christopher Driver, (Hull Barrett, PC), Augusta, Barry Abbott Fleming, Frank Adam Nelson, Paul Simon Patterson Williams, (Fleming & Nelson, LLP), Evans, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1263

    Voter Advocacy Organization Lacked Standing to Challenge Legislation Splitting Judicial Circuit Into Two New Circuits

  • Jennifer White, et al., Respondents, v. Andrew Cuomo, &c., et al., Appellants.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-23
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Civil Procedure | Constitutional Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals, New York State
    Judge: Chief Judge Janet DiFiore
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Victor Paladino, for appellants.
    for defendant: Jeffrey Sherrin, for respondents
    Case Number: No. 12

    White v. Cuomo

  • Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Healey

    Publication Date: 2022-03-22
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Energy | State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Richard Sullivan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant Exxon Mobil Corporation: Theodore V. Wells, Jr., Daniel J. Toal, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, New York; Patrick J. Conlon, Daniel E. Bolia, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Spring, Texas, on the brief, Justin Anderson, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Washington, District of Columbia. For Defendant-Appellee Attorney General of Massachusetts: Richard A. Johnston, Melissa A. Hoffer, Christophe G. Courchesne, Amanda Morejon, Assistant Attorneys General, on the brief, Seth Schofield, Assistant Attorney General, for Maura T. Healey, Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts. For Defendant-Appellee Attorney General of New York: Scott A. Eisman, Assistant Solicitor General, on the brief, Anisha S. Dasgupta, Deputy Solicitor General, for Letitia James, Attorney General of the State of New York, New York, New York. For Amici Curiae States of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin, and Phil Bryant, Governor of Mississippi and Paul R. LePage, Governor of Maine in support of Plaintiff-Appellant: Jeffrey C. Mateer, First Assistant Attorney General, Brantley D. Starr, Deputy First Assistant Attorney General, James E. Davis, Deputy Attorney General for Civil Litigation, David J. Hacker, Special Counsel for Civil Litigation, for Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, Austin, Texas; Steve Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama; Leslie Rutledge, Attorney General of Arkansas; Christopher M. Carr, Attorney General of Georgia; Jeff Landry, Attorney General of Louisiana; Paul R. LePage, Governor of Maine; Phil Bryant, Governor of Mississippi; Doug Peterson, Attorney General of Nebraska; Mike Hunter, Attorney General of Oklahoma; Alan Wilson, Attorney General of South Carolina; Brad Schimel, Attorney General of Wisconsin. For Amici Curiae National Association of Manufacturers and Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America in support of Plaintiff-Appellant: Megan L. Brown, Richard W. Smith, Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, District of Columbia.
    for defendant: For Amici Curiae Michael C. Dorf, Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law, Cornell Law School; Daniel J.H. Greenwood, Professor of Law, Deane School of Law, Hofstra University; Steven Heyman, Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law; Robert Kerr, Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor, Gaylord College, University of Oklahoma; Douglas Kysar, Deputy Dean and Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Helen Norton, Professor and Ira C. Rothgerber, Jr. Chair in Constitutional Law, University of Colorado School of Law; Tamara R. Piety, Professor of Law, University of Tulsa, College of Law; Frank Pasquale, Professor of Law, University of Maryland; Catherine J. Ross, Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor, George Washington University Law School; and Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School in support of Defendants-Appellees: Shanna M. Cleveland, Ronald A. Fein, Lisa Danetz, Free Speech for People, Newton, Massachusetts, and Steven H. Shiffrin, Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York. For Amici Curiae Martha Coakley, Thomas Reilly, Scott Harshbarger, James M. Shannon, and Francis X. Bellotti, Former Attorneys General of Massachusetts in support of Defendants-Appellees: Edward Notis-McConarty, M. Patrick Moore, Jr., Vanessa A. Arslanian, Hemenway & Barnes LLP, Boston, MA. For Ellen F. Rosenblum, Attorney General of Oregon, Salem, Oregon; Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, Sacramento, California; George Jepsen, Attorney General of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut; Russell A. Suzuki, Attorney General of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii; Lisa Madigan, Attorney General of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois; Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa; Janet T. Mills, Attorney General of Maine, Augusta, Maine; Brian E. Frosh, Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland; Lori Swanson, Attorney General of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota; Jim Hood, Attorney General of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi; Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, Trenton, New Jersey; Hector Balderas, Attorney General of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Joshua H. Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina; Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Peter F. Kilmartin, Attorney General of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island; Thomas J. Donovan, Jr., Attorney General of Vermont, Montpelier, Vermont; Mark R. Herring, Attorney General of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia; Robert W. Ferguson, Attorney General of Washington, Olympia, Washington; Karl A. Racine, Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Washington, District of Columbia, for Amici Curiae States of California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia in support of Defendants-Appel
    Case Number: 18-1770

    Exxon's Appeal as to NYAG Dismissed But Judgment as to Massachusetts AG Upheld