• Appellate Division, Second Department: February 21, 2025

    Publication Date: 2025-02-21
    Practice Area: Appellate Division Activity | Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department, Motion List & Order on Application
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: DOCKET

    Motion List & Order on Application released on:February 19, 2025

  • February 20, 2025 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Before Entering Pacific Northwest, Ballard Spahr Posted Double-Digit Growth in 2024

    “We had so many things going for us as a firm. We had to work together, we had to collaborate, we had all the pieces and needed to put them together. I gave the partners the call to action, and they answered it,” said firm chairman Peter Michaud, who also oversaw a merger with Lane Powell that went into effect Jan. 1.

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  • Appellate Division, First Department: February 20, 2025

    Publication Date: 2025-02-20
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, First Department, Appeals & Motions
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: DOCKET

    Appeals & Motions List released on:February 18, 2025

  • Morrissey v. Constantine

    Publication Date: 2025-02-20
    Practice Area: Contracts | Real Estate
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Nassau
    Judge: Justice Philippe Solages, Jr.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 616062/2019

    Court Disregards Investment Equity Option Agreement, Judgment Found For Plaintiff

  • Wasserman v. Franklin County

    Publication Date: 2025-02-20
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Constitutional Law
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George E. Butler, II, (Law Offices of George E. Butler II, LLC), Dahlonega, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eric James O’Brien, Timothy Joseph Buckley, III, (Buckley Christopher, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee; Stephen John Petrany, Ross Warren Bergethon, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.

    Case Number: S23G1029

    Court Overrules Precedent and Rejects Federal Third-Party Standing Doctrine in a Real Estate Zoning Case Based on Equal Protection Arguments, and Remands for Further Analysis

  • February 19, 2025 | The American Lawyer

    The Trump Effect vs. The Brussels Effect: The Future of Antitrust

    The current narrative that overregulation has harmed the EU’s competitiveness may cast a cloud on the appeal of copying the bloc’s rules in other parts of the world.

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  • February 19, 2025 | Law.com

    The Brussels Effect vs. the Trump Effect: Is the EU’s Power and Influence Waning?

    The current narrative that overregulation has harmed the EU’s competitiveness may cast a cloud on the appeal of copying the bloc’s rules in other parts of the world.

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  • February 18, 2025 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Bar Report - Feb. 18

    The Solo and Small-Firm Conference on Feb. 21-22 is the CLE event of the year for solo and small-firm attorneys to network, have fun with colleagues and attend programs specially designed for the practice.

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  • Turnbull v. Klein

    Publication Date: 2025-02-18
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Energy | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor David
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen E. Jenkins, Richard D. Heins, Tiffany Geyer Lydon, Ashby & Geddes, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Donald J. Enright, Elizabeth K. Tripodi, Brian D. Stewart, Levi & Korsinsky, LLP, Washington, D.C; Blake A. Bennett, Cooch and Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Michael J. Palestina, Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC, New Orleans, LA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Kevin R. Shannon, Jaclyn C. Levy, Callan R. Jackson, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stephen H. Lee, Joseph D. Cohen, Christopher G. Wawro, Porter Hedges LLP, Houston, TX; J. Clayton Athey, David C. Skoranski, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Edward Han, Alyssa K. Tapper, Paul Hastings LLP, Palo Alto, CA; April M. Ferraro, Noah H. Brown, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael C. Holmes, Jeffrey Crough, Virginia DeBeer, Megan Cloud, Vinson & Elkins LLP, Dallas, TX for defendants.

    Case Number: 2023-1125-BWD

    Shareholder's voting power was insufficient by itself to give rise to an inference of a controller position and company's formation of a special committee weighed against, not in favor of, finding controller status.

  • Maffei v. Palkon

    Publication Date: 2025-02-18
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: E-Commerce | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin R. Shannon, J. Matthew Belger, Jaclyn C. Levy, Christopher D. Renaud, Justin T. Hymes, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Matthew W. Close, Jonathan B. Waxman, O’Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Abby F. Rudzin, Asher Rivner, O’Melveny & Myers LLP, New York, NY; Bradley R. Aronstam, S. Sirkin, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP; John A. Neuwirth, Evert J. Christensen, Jr., Stefania D. Venezia, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY for appellants.
    for defendant: Gregory V. Varallo, Andrew E. Blumberg, Mae Oberste, Daniel E. Meyer, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, Wilmington, DE, Kimberly A. Evans, Lindsay K. Faccenda, Robert Erikson, Block & Leviton LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jeroen van Kwawegen, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, New York, NY; Jeremy Friedman, David Tejtel, Christopher Windover, Lindsay La Marca, Friedman Oster & Tejtel PLLC, Bedford Hills, NY, Jason Leviton, Nathan Abelman, Block & Leviton LLP, Boston, MA; D. Seamus Kaskela, Adrienne Bell, Kaskela Law LLC, Newtown Square, PA for appellees.

    Case Number: 2023-0449-JTL

    Jurisdictional conversion was reviewable under business judgment rule rather than entire fairness standard when plaintiffs failed to identify past conduct leading to concrete risk of liability for defendants that would be abrogated by the conversion.