• Doe v. Hagenbeck, 15-1890-cv

    Publication Date: 2017-09-08
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Wesley, Livingston, and Chin, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellee for Jane Doe: Rebecca Ojserkis, Jonas Wang, Erin Baldwin, Kathryn Wynbrandt, Bethany Li, Michael J. Wishnie, Veteran Legal Services Clinic, Jerome M. Frank Legal Services Organization, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellants for Lt. Gen. Franklin Lee Hagenbeck and Brig. Gen. William E. Rapp: Christopher Connolly, Benjamin H. Torrance, Assistant United States Attorneys, New York, NY, for Joon H. Kim, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Amici Curiae for Amici Curiae Federal Courts and Constitutional Law Professors, in support of Jane Doe: Caitlin J. Halligan, Joel M. Cohen, Casey K. Lee, Kathryn M. Cherry, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY. For Amici Curiae University Administrators, in support of Jane Doe: Paul W. Hughes, Travis Crum, Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, D.C. For Amici Curiae Former Military Officers, in support of Jane Doe: Penelope A. Preovolos, Ben Patterson, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA. For Amici Curiae National Veterans Legal Services Program, Protect Our Defenders, Service Women's Action Network, in support of Jane Doe: John D. Niles, James Anglin Flynn, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, D.C. For Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union, American Association of University Women, Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic at the City University of New York School of Law, Human Rights Watch, National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence, National Women's Law Center, in support of Jane Doe: Sandra S. Park, Steven Watt, Lenora M. Lapidus, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY.

    Case Number: 15-1890-cv

    Incident-to-Service Rule Precluded Bivens Claim from Conduct at Military A

  • September 7, 2017 | New York Law Journal

    Other People's Money: SEC Disgorgement After 'Kokesh'

    Daniel Walfish analyzes an important but little-discussed consequence of the SCOTUS decision 'Kokesh v. SEC.'

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  • Jane Doe, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Lt. Gen. Franklin Lee Hagenbeck, Brig. Gen. William E. Rapp, Defendants-Appellants, United States of America, Defendant, 15-1890-cv

    Publication Date: 2017-09-01
    Practice Area: Litigation | Civil Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Wesley, Livingston, and Chin, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellee for Jane Doe: Rebecca Ojserkis, Jonas Wang, Erin Baldwin, Kathryn Wynbrandt, Bethany Li, Michael J. Wishnie, Veteran Legal Services Clinic, Jerome M. Frank Legal Services Organization, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellants for Lt. Gen. Franklin Lee Hagenbeck and Brig. Gen. William E. Rapp.: Christopher Connolly, Benjamin H. Torrance, Assistant United States Attorneys, New York, NY, for Joon H. Kim, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Amici Curiae for Amici Curiae Federal Courts and Constitutional Law Professors, in support of Jane Doe.: Caitlin J. Halligan, Joel M. Cohen, Casey K. Lee, Kathryn M. Cherry, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY. For Amici Curiae University Administrators, in support of Jane Doe.: Paul W. Hughes, Travis Crum, Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, D.C. For Amici Curiae Former Military Officers, in support of Jane Doe.: Penelope A. Preovolos, Ben Patterson, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA. For Amici Curiae National Veterans Legal Services Program, Protect Our Defenders, Service Women's Action Network, in support of Jane Doe.: John D. Niles, James Anglin Flynn, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, D.C. For Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union, American Association of University Women, Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic at the City University of New York School of Law, Human Rights Watch, National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence, National Women's Law Center, in support of Jane Doe.: Sandra S. Park, Steven Watt, Lenora M. Lapidus, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY.

    Case Number: 15-1890-cv

    Former West Point Cadet's Sexual Assault Liability Suit Stymied by Second C

  • Morrone v. The Pension Fund of Local No. One, I.A.T.S.E., 16-723-cv

    Publication Date: 2017-08-31
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Kearse, Hall, and Chin, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant: Edgar Pauk, Law Office of Edgar Pauk, Brooklyn, New York, on the brief, Robert L. Liebross, Law Office of Robert L. Liebross, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellee: Denis P. Duffey Jr., Nicholas J. Johnson, on the brief, Franklin K. Moss, Spivak Lipton LLP, New York, NY.

    Case Number: 16-723-cv

    Ability to Use Current Pension Accrual Rates Was Not Benefit Under Anti-Cutbac

  • July 17, 2017 | New York Law Journal

    Book Publishers Defeat Antitrust Appeals at Circuit

    The suits were filed by independent publishers in response to the Second Circuit's earlier ruling that Apple and five publishing companies, all of whom were party to the current suit, had conspired when they simultaneously switched from a wholesale business model to an agency pricing model, but the court agreed that neither company could attribute its demise to the unlawful conspiracy.

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  • May 30, 2017 | New York Law Journal

    Determining 'Opprobrious' Conduct Under the National Labor Relations Act

    In their Second Circuit Review, Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp discuss the court's attempt to clarify what types of conduct strip an employee of protection under the National Labor Relations Act

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  • February 15, 2017 |

    Travelers Indem. Co. v. Northrop Grumman Corp.

     Click Here for FC&S Legal Expert Analysis  Travelers Indem. Co.v.Northrop Grumman Corp.2017 WL 391926Only the Westlaw citation is currently…

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  • US v. Nathan Brown, 13-1706-cr

    Publication Date: 2016-12-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Pooler, Sack, and Droney, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellee: Brenda K. Sannes And Richard D. Belliss, Assistant United States Attorneys, for Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Syracuse, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellant: S. Michael Musa-Obregon, Maspeth, NY.

    Case Number: 13-1706-cr

    Cite as: US v. Brown, 13-1706-cr, NYLJ 1202774056932, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided December 6, 2016) CASE NAME United States, Appellee v. Nathan Brown, Defendant-Ap

  • November 1, 2016 | New York Law Journal

    Rapid Restocking of NY Federal Courts Adds More Than New Judges

    Few regions saw the rapid-fire filling of federal court vacancies that New York experienced during the Obama years. All told, President Barack Obama seated 32 judges on the state'

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  • October 3, 2016 | Daily Business Review

    Ruling in USS Cole Case Shares Spirit of 9/11 Families Law

    If President Barack Obama the politician didn't foresee Congress overriding his veto of the 9/11 families bill, Obama the lawyer got an early warning that the stars were not aligning his

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