• American Civil Liberties Union v. Clapper, 14-42-cv

    Publication Date: 2015-05-11
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Sack and Lynch, C.JJ., and Broderick, D.J.**
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant: For Plaintiffs-Appellants: Jameel Jaffer, Patrick Toomey, Brett Max Kaufman, Catherine Crump, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY; Christopher T. Dunn, Arthur N. Eisenburg, New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, on the brief, Alexander Abdo, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, For Defendants-Appellees: Douglas N. Letter, H. Thomas Byron III, Henry C. Whitaker, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC; Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY; David S. Jones, John D. Clopper, Emily E. Daughtry, Assistant United States Attorneys, New York, NY, on the brief, Stuart F. Delery, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. For Amici Curiae Former Members of the Church Committee and Law Professors in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants: Laura K. Donohue, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC, Erwin Chemerinsky, University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA. For Amici Curiae Senator Ron Wyden, Senator Mark Udall, and Senator Martin Heinrich in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants: Charles S. Sims, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY. For Amici Curiae Experts in Computer and Data Science in Support of Appellants and Reversal: Cindy Cohn, Mark Rumold, Andrew Crocker, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA. For Amicus Curiae The Rutherford Institute in Support of Appellants and Reversal: John W. Whitehead, Douglas R. McKusick, The Rutherford Institute, Charlottesville, Virginia, Daniel L. Ackman, Law Office of Daniel Ackman, New York, NY. For Amicus Curiae PEN American Center, Inc., in Support of Appellants: Edward J. Davis, Linda Steinman, Lacy H. Koonce, III, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, New York, NY. For Amicus Curiae National Rifle Association of America, Inc., in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants and Supporting Reversal: John Frazer, Law Office of John Frazer, PLLC, Fairfax, VA. For Amicus Curiae Association of the Bar of the City of New York Supporting Plaintiffs-Appellants' Brief: Jonathan Hafetz, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Gary D. Sesser, Stephen L. Kass, Michael Shapiro, Laura A. Zaccone, Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP, New York, NY.

    Case Number: 14-42-cv

    Cite as: American Civil Liberties Union v. Clapper, 14-42-cv, NYLJ 1202725858041, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided May 7, 2015) FULL CAS

  • May 11, 2015 | The American Lawyer

    Three Firms See Departures Continue, Plus More Lateral Moves

    CORRECTION: 5/22/15, 12:35 p.m. EDT. A previous version of this column erroneoulsy stated that Anna Elshafei had left Miller Canfield. She remains with the firm as a par

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  • May 10, 2015 | The American Lawyer

    Three Firms See Departures Continue, Plus More Lateral Moves

    McKenna Long & Aldridge, O'Melveny & Myers and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman see more partners peel away; a former Bingham McCutchen tax partner rejoins her former colleagues at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; a Latham & Watkins antitrust litigator launches her own boutique; and other notable moves from throughout The Am Law 200.

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  • Morris v. The City of New York, 14-cv-1749

    Publication Date: 2015-05-04
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    Court: U.S. District Court, Eastern District
    Judge: District Judge John Gleeson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Plaintiff pro se: Peggy Morris, St. Albans, NY.
    for defendant: Attorney for Defendants By: Rosemari Y. Nam, Zachary W. Carter, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, New York, NY.

    Case Number: 14-cv-1749

    Cite as: Morris v. The City of N k, 14-cv-1749, NYLJ 1202725323412, at *1 (EDNY, Decided April 27, 2015) CASENAME Peggy Morris, Plaintiff v. The City of N

  • April 30, 2015 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Unapproved Opinions: April 23-39, 2015

    STATE COURT CASES ADMINISTRATIVE LAW 01-2-6595 In the Matter of Ippolito, App. Div. (per curiam) (19 pp.) App

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  • April 29, 2015 | New York Law Journal

    February 2015 New York State Bar Results

    Following is the list issued by the State Board of Law Examiners of the names of the 1,712 candidates who passed the bar examination given on February 24-25, 2015. Of the 3,997 candidates wh

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  • April 29, 2015 | New York Law Journal

    February 2015 New York State Bar Results

    The list issued by the State Board of Law Examiners of the names of the 1,712 candidates who passed the bar examination given on February 24-25, 2015.

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  • April 27, 2015 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    AbbVie Inc. / Pharmacyclics Inc. North Chicago, Illinois-based biopharmaceutical company AbbVie Inc. said March 4 it will buy Sunnyvale, California-based Pharmacyclic

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  • April 27, 2015 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    AbbVie Inc. / Pharmacyclics Inc. North Chicago, Illinois-based biopharmaceutical company AbbVie Inc. said March 4 it will buy Sunnyvale, California-based…

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  • April 27, 2015 | The American Lawyer

    The Am Law 100: Introducing Our New Profits Metric

    Thirty years ago, almost to the day, Big Law changed forever. The decision by The American Lawyer to publish detailed law firm financials in 1985 laid bare for the

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