Filter This View

  • February 1, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Big Suits

    U.S. v. Alpha Natural Resources et al. Alpha Natural Resources, Inc., agr eed to pay $209 million on December 6, 2011, to avert criminal and civil char

    1 minute read

  • September 27, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    High-Stakes Bout Over Mortgages Taking Shape

    To hear Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac tell it, they were hoodwinked by Wall Street, the unwitting buyers of $200 billion worth of lousy mortgage-backed securities. From the investment banks' point of

    1 minute read

  • September 27, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Epic Stakes in Mortgage War

    To hear Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac tell it, they were hoodwinked by Wall Street, the unwitting buyers of $200 billion worth of lousy mortgage-backed securities. From the investment banks' point of

    1 minute read

  • September 26, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Epic stakes in mortgage war

    To hear Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac tell it, they were hoodwinked by Wall Street, the unwitting buyers of $200 billion worth of lousy mortgage-backed securities. From the investment banks' point of

    1 minute read

  • September 16, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Judge Swain Bucks Trend and Allows Plaintiffs To Apply American Pipe Tolling to Statute of Repose in Morgan Stanley MBS Case

    We'll admit that until recently we didn't concern ourselves much with statutes of repose. But this principle--which bars lawsuits filed too long after the events at issue--has become an important

    1 minute read

  • April 29, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    AIG files $350M fraud suit; more suits likely to follow

    On Thursday, AIG Financial Products filed the first in what could be a series of lawsuits against financial institutions in an effort to recoup billions of dollars that it lost because of all

    1 minute read

  • February 20, 2009 | Law.com Corporate

    Candidates Who Passed The February 2009 NYS Bar Exam

    The New York State Board of Law Examiners announced yesterday that grading has been completed for the February 2009 bar examination. Graduates of ABA-approved law schools taking

    1 minute read

  • Hector Rivas v. B Rian Fischer , Superintendent

    Publication Date: 2012-07-24
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2012-07-09
    Court: 2d Cir.
    Judge: Jose A. Cabranes, Circuit Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 10-1300-pr

    10-1300-pr Rivas v. Fischer Argued: December 08, 2011 Before: CABRANES, POOLER, and SACK, Circuit Judges. Petitioner-appellant Hector Rivas appeals from a judgment

  • Inter-American Development Bank v. NextG Telecom Ltd., 06 Civ. 6222

    Publication Date: 2007-09-06
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2007-08-25
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District
    Judge: Lewis Kaplan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 06 Civ. 6222

    District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Appearances: Scott S. Balber Gretchen N. Werwaiss Laura M.

  • In Re: Indymac Mortgage-Backed Securities Litigation

    Publication Date: 2012-11-15
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: U. S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Lewis Kaplan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Plaintiff Police and Fire Retirement System of the City of Detroit: Denis F. Sheils, Joseph C. Kohn, William E. Hoese, Kohn, Swift & Graf., P.C., Lawrence P. Kolker, Gregory M. Nespole, Rachel S. Poplock, Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP., Steven J. Toll, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC., Attorneys for Plaintiff City of Philadelphia Board of Pensions and Retirement: Ira N. Richards Trujillo Rodriguez & Richards, LLC, Timothy J. MacFall Rigrodsky & Long, P.A. Attorneys for Lead Plaintiffs Wyoming State Treasurer and Wyoming Retirement System: Daniel E. Barenbaum, Nicole C. Lavallee, Joseph J. Tabacco, Jr., Patrick T. Egan, Anthony D. Phillips, Julie Goldsmith Reiser, Berman Devalerio.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Individual Defendants: Eric R. Levine, Eric Aschkenasy, Eiseman Levine Lehrhaupt & Kakoyiannis, P.C., Michael W. Fitzgerald, Robert L. Corbin, Joel M. Athey, Corbin, Fitzgerald & Athey LLP Robert H. Fairbank, Kimberly M. West, Richard D. Gluck, Michael B. Norman, Fairbank & Vincent Attorneys for Underwriter Defendants: Dean J. Kitchens Robert F. Serio, Jonathan C. Dickey, Aric H. Wu, Eric M. Creizman, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Attorneys for Defendant IndyMac MBS, Inc.: William R. Stein, Scott H. Christensen, Kenneth M. Katz, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP.
    Case Number: 09 Civ. 4583 (LAK)

    Cite as: In Re: Indymac Mortgage-Backed Securities Litigation, 09 Civ. 4583 (LAK), NYLJ 1202578466408, at *1 (SDNY, Decided August 17, 2012)District Judge