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  • In re Lehman Bros. Holdings Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-08-18
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant Lehman Brothers Special Financing, Inc.: William F. Dahill, on the brief, Paul R. Defilippo, Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch LLP, New York, NY
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellee First Northern Bank and Trust Company: William A. Slaughter, Ballard Spahr LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Leslie C. Heilman, Ballard Spahr LLP, Wilmington, DE. For Defendants-Appellees Garadex Inc., Gatex Properties Inc., and Morgan Stanley & Co., Incorporated: John H. Thompson, McGuire Woods LLP, Washington, DC. For Defendants-Appellees General Security National Insurance and SCOR Reinsurance Company: Scott Walter Reynolds, Chaffetz Lindsey LLP, New York, NY; Nicole E. Schiavo, Peter A. Ivanick, Hogan Lovells US LLP, New York, NY. For Defendants-Appellees Genworth Life and Annuity Insurance Co., Magnetar Constellation Fund II Ltd Magnetar Constellation Master Fund III Ltd, Magnetar Constellation Master Fund Ltd., and UniCredit Bank AG, London Branch: Nicholas P. Crowell, Alex R. Rovira, Andrew P. Propps, Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellee LGT Bank in Liechtenstein Ltd: Gregory F. Hauser, Wuersch & Gering LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellee The Liverpool Limited Partnership: Matthew J. Gold, Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen, P.C., New York, NY. For Defendants-Appellees Mariner LDC, Structured Credit Opportunities Fund II, L.P., and Tricadia Credit Strategies Master Fund, Ltd., f/k/a Mariner-Tricadia Credit Strategies Master Fund, Ltd: Thomas J. Fleming, Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellee MBIA, Inc: Kevin J. Biron, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellee MoneyGram Securities, LLC and its Successors in Interest: Brian Dillon, Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty, & Bennett, P.A., Minneapolis, MN. For Defendant-Appellee Morgans Financial Limited: Lewis J. Liman, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellee Mulberry Street CDO, Ltd: Jack Yoskowitz, Seward & Kissel LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellee Natixis Financial Products LLC: Scott W. Reynolds, Chaffetz Lindsey LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellee PCA Life Assurance Co. Ltd: Nicholas P. Crowell, Jon W. Muenz, Andrew P. Propps, Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellee RGA Reinsurance Co.: Emilio B. Nicolas, Jackson Walker LLP, Austin, TX. For Defendant-Appellee Security Benefit Life Insurance Co.: David Adler, McCarter & English, LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellee Shenandoah Life Insurance Company: Joseph J. Saltarelli, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP. For Amicus Curiae Structured Finance Industry Group: Madlyn Gleich Primoff, Timothy P. Harkness, David Y. Livshiz, Henry V. Hutten, Jill K. Serpa, on the brief, Freshfields Bruckhaus & Deringer US LLP, New York, NY.
    Case Number: 18-1079

    Certain Priority Provisions Are Enforceable Under the Bankruptcy Code's Safe Harbor

  • Barton v. Warren Cty.

    Publication Date: 2020-08-14
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York
    Judge: District Judge Glenn Suddaby
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for Plaintiffs: Ronald J. Kim, Esq., of counsel, Office of Ronald J. Kim, Saratoga Springs, NY.
    for defendant: Counsel for Defendants: Gregg T. Johnson, Esq., Loraine C. Jelinek, Esq., of counsel, Johnson & Laws, LLC, Clifton Park, NY.
    Case Number: 1:19-CV-1061

    Negative Comments to a Pregnant Colleague Do Not Amount to a Hostile Work Environment

  • Atlantica Holdings Inc. v. Sovereign Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna JSC

    Publication Date: 2020-08-13
    Practice Area: Securities Litigation
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
    Judge: District Judge Jesse Furman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 12-CV-8851

    Panamanian Corporations Fail to Prove Securities Fraud Against Sovereign Wealth Fund

  • MPM Silicones LLC v. Union Carbide Corp.

    Publication Date: 2020-08-12
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee MPM Silicones, LLC: Jeremy W. Meisinger, Foley Hoag LLP, Boston, MA, Peter A. Sullivan, Foley Hoag LLP, New York, NY, on the brief, Jonathan M. Ettinger, Foley Hoag LLP, Boston, MA.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant Union Carbide Corporation: Karl S. Bourdeau, Benjamin E. Apple, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., Washington, DC, Megan R. Brillault, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., New York, NY, on the brief, Harold L. Segall, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., Washington, DC.
    Case Number: 17-3468(L)

    District Court Properly Adjudicated the Allocation of Future Removal Action Costs

  • August 10, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

    High Court Report Card: How the Third Circ. Fared in the 2019-2020 Term (Part 2)

    In last month's column, I examined the four cases that reached the U.S. Supreme Court directly from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in the 2019-2020 term. As readers may recall, the Third Circuit had a .500 success rate in those four cases, achieving two affirmances and two reversals.

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  • In Re Savoy

    Publication Date: 2020-08-10
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure | Damages | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Smith
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 03-19-00361-CV

    Savoy, a commercial truck driver for relator Texas Cutting and Coring, collided with Hartley's vehicle, causing him injuries.

  • TL v. Cook Childrens Medical Center

    Publication Date: 2020-08-10
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Health Care Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Birdwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 02-20-00002-CV

    T.L. was born severely premature with serious, life-threatening medical complications.

  • United States v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2020-08-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: District Judge Jeffrey Meyer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellee: Cyrus P. Rieck, of counsel, Paul D. Silver, Assistant United States Attorneys, for Grant C. Jaquith, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Albany, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellant: Molly K. Corbett, on the brief, James P. Egan, for Lisa A. Peebles, Federal Public Defender, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Albany, NY.
    Case Number: 17-2446-cr

    Exclusionary Rule Does Not Apply to Police's Delay in Seeking Search Warrant

  • In the Matter of Don Smart

    Publication Date: 2020-08-06
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harry D. Dixon, (Donnie Dixon Attorney at Law, LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Wolanda R. Shelton, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20Y0957

    Court accepts attorney's voluntary petition to surrender his law license following his guilty plea to theft by conversion

  • August 5, 2020 | Texas Lawyer

    Dallas-Headquartered AT&T Fight May Come Down to Arbitration Factor

    The appeal boiled down to the word "may," and what it actually means under Texas contract law. And in this case, it meant a win for defendant AT&T as the case heads to arbitration.

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