• 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

  • Cabral v. Rockefeller Univ.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-14
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Construction | Education
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Sabrina Kraus
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 156724/2016

    Issues of Fact Exist on Whether Hydraulic Piston Was Defectively Designed

  • Appellate Division, Second Department: March 9, 2022

    Publication Date: 2022-03-11
    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

    Appellate Division, Second Department: March 9, 2022

  • Appellate Division, First Department: February 24, 2022

    Publication Date: 2022-02-28
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department, Appeals & Motions
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: DOCKET

    Appellate Division, First Department: February 24, 2022

  • February 25, 2022 | New York Law Journal

    With NYC's Pay Transparency Law, a Sea Change Leaves Employers With Little Choice but To Update Pay Practices

    New York City's law, which goes into effect on May 15, 2022, amends the city's Human Rights Law to include a new discriminatory practice: failing to include salary ranges in job postings.

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  • Harris v. Pfizer Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-02-24
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Products Liability
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, U.S. - SDNY
    Judge: District Judge Denise Cote
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs: Andrew Obergfell, Bursor & Fisher, P.A., New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendant: Colleen Gulliver, Loren H. Brown, Jessica Carol Wilson, DLA Piper US LLP (NY), New York, NY.

    Case Number: 21 CV 6789

    Fraud Claim Not Stated Against Pfizer Over Chantix Drug's Contamination by Carcinogen

  • Display Techs. LLC v. Leantegra Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-02-17
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Patent Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, U.S. - SDNY
    Judge: District Judge Lewis Liman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 20-CV-7816

    Default Admits Claims That Marketing System Infringed on Patents Owned by Plaintiff

  • Brown v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-02-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dell Jackson, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sherry Boston, Jason Rea, (DeKalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1672

    Court affirms conviction for statutory rape over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence and claim of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Stonewater Roofing v. Texas Dept of Insu

    Publication Date: 2022-02-14
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Civil Appeals | Constitutional Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Pirtle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 07-21-00016-CV

    Appellant, a professional roofing company, maintained a website that purportedly included various statements about its experience with insurance claims.

  • January 24, 2022 | The Recorder

    Keker Defends Marketing Intelligence Software Company in Proposed Privacy Class Action

    This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.

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