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  • U.S. v. Echeverry

    Publication Date: 2020-11-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge John Walker; Steven Menashi
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carlos Echeverry, White Deer, PA, pro se.
    for defendant: For Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY: Michael McGinnis and Anna M. Skotko, Assistant United States Attorneys.
    Case Number: 19-2202-cr

    First Step Act Reduction Denied; Fair Sentencing Act Did Not Alter Minimum Sentences

  • U.S. v. Mack

    Publication Date: 2020-04-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge John Walker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, for Appellee: Jennifer R. Laraia, Marc H. Silverman, on the brief, Brian P. Leaming, Assistant United States Attorneys.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellant: Jeremiah Donovan, Old Saybrook, CT.
    Case Number: 16-3734-cr

    Witness Tampering Conspiracy, Firearms Possession Convictions Are Sustained

  • Bellamy v. City of New York

    Publication Date: 2019-02-11
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge John Walker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: for Plaintiff‐Appellant: Joel B. Rudin, Law Office of Joel B. Rudin, P.C., New York, NY.
    for defendant: for Defendants‐Appellees: Megan E.K. Montcalm, Richard Dearing, on the brief, for Zachary W. Carter, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, New York, NY.; for Amici Curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Innocence Network, and Innocence Project: Richard D. Willstatter, Vice Chair, Amicus Curiae Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Chair, Amicus Curiae Committee of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, White Plains, NY; Adele Bernhard, Innocence Network, New York, NY; Barry Scheck, Innocence Project, New York, NY; Ross E. Firsenbaum, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Door LLP, New York NY.
    Case Number: 17-1859-cv

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  • October 24, 2018 | New York Law Journal

    List of Candidates Who Passed the July 2018 Bar Exam

    The list issued by the State Board of Law Examiners of the names of the candidates who passed the bar examination.

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  • Marcel Fashions Group Inc. v. Lucky Brand Dungarees Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-08-20
    Practice Area: Trademarks
    Industry: Consumer Products
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge John Walker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff‐Appellant: Robert L. Greener, Law Office of Robert L. Greener, New York, NY
    for defendant: For Defendants‐Appellees: Claudia Ray, Mary C. Mazzello, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY; P. Daniel Bond, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL, on the brief, Dale M. Cendali, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY
    Case Number: 17-0361

    Claim Preclusion Bars Defendants from Litigating Defenses Potentially Asserted Earlier

  • Williams v. Annucci

    Publication Date: 2018-07-17
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Constitutional Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge John Walker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant: Meir Feder, Lauren Pardee Ruben, on the brief, Rajeev Muttreja, Jones Day, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellees: Andrew D. Bing, Barbara D. Underwood, on the brief, Zainab A. Chaudhry, for Barbara D. Underwood, Attorney General of the State of New York, New York, NY.
    Case Number: 15-1018

    'Holt' Leads to Remand of Inmate's RLUIPA Action Over Religious Dietary Restrictions

  • May 22, 2017 | The Recorder

    Brown's 23 New Trial Judges Include Ex-Big Law, Prosecutors

    Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday appointed 23 trial court judges, including four in the Bay

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  • January 10, 2017 | Daily Business Review

    Nuanced Appellate Decision in Case Claiming Bankruptcy Judge Conflict

    The claims were salacious. The resulting ruling … not so much.Faced with "unusual allegations" of impropriety involving a bankruptcy judge, his fiance-attorney and a disbanded law

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  • USA v. Compton, 15-942

    Publication Date: 2016-07-25
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge John Walker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellee: Katherine Kopita, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief, Steven D. Clymer, Assistant United States Attorney, for Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Syracuse, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellant: Paul J. Evangelista, Assistant Federal Public Defender, on the brief, Molly K. Corbett, Research & Writing Attorney, for Lisa A. Peebles, Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of New York, Albany, NY.
    Case Number: 15-942

    Cite as: USA v. Compton, 15-942, NYLJ 1202763336758, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided July 19, 2016) CASENAME United States of America, Appellee v. Peter Compton, Defen

  • October 18, 2015 | The American Lawyer

    Crowell Nabs a DJ but Loses a Lindh, Plus More Lateral Moves

    Crowell & Moring hired DLA Piper partner JONATHAN LISLE in London this month to head its corporate group in the global financial services center. Lisle focuses hi

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