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  • Eleby v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-07-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kimberly Laverne Copeland, (Kimberly L. Copeland & Associates, LLC), Jesup, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, Mary Catherine Norman, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Jessica Brooke Haygood, Jonathan Lang Adams, Dorothy Vinson Hull, (Towaliga Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Forsyth, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0129

    Court affirms convictions for felony murder and other crimes over defendant's multiple contentions of error, but vacates sentences for armed robbery and conspiracy due to merger error

  • July 17, 2024 | National Law Journal

    DC Circuit Nixes $120M Damages Award in Deadly Foreign Contract Dispute

    "The court properly recognized that the Republic of Iraq and its Ministry of Defense are immune from suit in this country because this contract had nothing to do with the United States," Boaz S. Morag of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton said of the D.C. Circuit's ruling overturning a $120 million damages award.

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  • July 16, 2024 | Corporate Counsel

    FedEx General Counsel Cruising Into Retirement After 42 Years With Shipping Giant

    Mark Allen hopscotched around the globe helping build the company's international operations before taking the legal reins in 2017.

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  • Upstate Jobs Party v. Kosinski

    Publication Date: 2024-07-16
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants: Edward Wenger & Phillip Michael Gordon, on the brief, Shawn Toomey Sheehy, Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak, PLLC, Haymarket, VA; Michael Burger, Santiago Burger LLP, Rochester, NY, on the brief.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees: Jeffrey W. Lang, Deputy Solicitor General, on the brief, Sarah L. Rosenbluth, Assistant Solicitor General, for Letitia James, Attorney General of the State of New York, Albany, NY.
    Case Number: 21-2518

    Parties, Independent Bodies Not Similar; Judgment as to Campaign Limits Partly Upheld

  • Paxton v. Dettlebach

    Publication Date: 2024-07-15
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Constitutional Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Clement
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 23-10802

    Appellants, three individuals and the State of Texas, sought to enjoin federal statutes that criminalize making silencers for personal use without paying a $200 excise tax, applying for permission from the federal government, and registering the silencer in a federal database.

  • Appellate Division, Second Department: July 12, 2024

    Publication Date: 2024-07-12
    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:July 10, 2024

  • Drabinsky v. Actor's Equity Ass'n

    Publication Date: 2024-07-12
    Practice Area: Antitrust | Labor Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Raymond J. Lohier, Jr.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant: Jarod Bona, Bona Law PC, La Jolla, CA; Molly Donovan, Bona Law PC, New York, NY; Aaron Gott, Bona Law PC, Minneapolis, MN; Richard Alan Roth, The Roth Law Firm, PLLC, New York, NY; Joshua D. Wright, Lodestar Law & Economics, PLLC, McLean, VA, on the brief, Luke Hasskamp, Bona Law PC, La Jolla, CA.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellee: David L. Greenspan, Winston & Strawn LLP, New York, NY; Evan Hudson-Plush, Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP, New York, NY, on the brief, Jeffrey L. Kessler, Winston & Strawn LLP, New York, NY. For Amicus Curiae AFL-CIO in support of Defendant-Appellee: Andrew Lyubarsky, Matthew Ginsburg, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Washington, DC.
    Case Number: 23-795-cv

    Antitrust Claims Barred; Union Acted in Self-Interest of Protecting Its Members' Wages

  • A.S. v. A.B.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-11
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Kings
    Judge: Justice Jeffrey S. Sunshine
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for Plaintiff by: Kara K Miller, Esq., Jaspan Schlesinger Narendran, Garden City, New York.
    for defendant: Attorney for Defendant by: Eric T. Saar, Esq., Krauss Shaknes Tallentire & Messeri LLP, New York, New York. Attorney for the Children: Matthew J. Kazansky, Esq., Brooklyn, New York.
    Case Number: (redacted)

    Tracking Company Ordered to Hand Over Defendant's Records to Wife in Divorce Proceeding

  • M.A.M. v. N.A.C.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-10
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Family Court, Nassau
    Judge: Support Magistrate Sondra M. Toscano
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 552688

    Respondent Incarcerated and Ordered to Make Payments for Overdue Child Support

  • July 9, 2024 | The Recorder

    Who Got the Work: Fenwick and West to Steer Defense in Securities Class Action Against Vaccine Maker Gritstone

    A complaint filed on June 17 by Pomerantz in the California Northern District Court alleged that Gritstone bio Inc., which develops vaccines and immunotherapies for cancer and infectious diseases, misled investors about the timeline of a proposed COVID-19 vaccine study in earnings calls, news releases and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings.

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