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  • Appellate Division, First Department: April 18, 2024

    Publication Date: 2024-04-18
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, First Department, Appeals & Motions
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: DOCKET

    Appeals & Motions List released on:April 16, 2024

  • Mock v. Garland

    Publication Date: 2023-08-14
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Smith
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    Case Number: 23-10319 080123

    Appellants sued for injunctive relief against implementation of a final rule, "Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached 'Stabilizing Braces'" 88 Fed. Reg. 6478 (Jan. 31, 2023) which determined when a device marketed as a stabilizing brace turned a handgun into a rifle.

  • Total Energies EP USA v. MP Gulf of Mexico

    Publication Date: 2023-06-26
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Contractual Disputes | Dispute Resolution
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boyd
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    Case Number: 21-0028

    Respondent MP Gulf of Mexico, as two-thirds owner of some oil and gas leases called Chinook Unit made two contracts with petitioner Total Energies E&P USA, Inc. as one-third owner of the same unit.

  • Total Energies v. MP Gulf of Mexico

    Publication Date: 2023-05-01
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Contractual Disputes | Dispute Resolution
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boyd
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    Case Number: 21-0028

    An energy company, that lost on appeal an argument that it was not required to arbitrate an agreement, failed to prove to that it was entitled to relief.

  • Cosey v. Lilley

    Publication Date: 2023-03-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Petitioner-Appellant Archie Cosey: Rebecca E. Freedman, on the brief, Glenn A. Garber, The Exoneration Initiative, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Respondent-Appellee Lynn Lilley: Karen Schlossberg, Assistant District Attorney, on the brief, Stephen Kress, Assistant District Attorney, for Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney of New York County, New York, NY. For Amici Curiae The Innocence Project and Centurion Ministries, Inc., in support of Petitioner-Appellant Archie Cosey: Parvin Daphne Moyne, Elise B. Maizel, Andrew A. McWhorter, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, New York, NY; Zara H. Shore, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Washington, DC.
    Case Number: 20-1916-pr

    'Schlup' Innocence Claim Fails; §2254 Habeas Petition Time-Barred Under AEDPA

  • USA v. Vargas Soto

    Publication Date: 2022-06-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Oldham
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    Case Number: 20-10705

    After multiple previous convictions, appellant was charged with illegal reentry after removal.

  • Brackeen v. Haaland

    Publication Date: 2021-04-19
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Rights | Native American Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 18-11479

    A divided Fifth Circuit, which reconsidered nearly a dozen constitutional issues related to the Indian Child Welfare Act, could only set precedent for a few issues.

  • Elliott v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-03-08
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory Allen Willis, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, Jared Thomas Hall, (Thomas, Webb & Willis LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Washington Fleenor, Ethan Merritt Makin, (Athens-Clarke County Solicitor General's Office), Athens, Kenneth W. Mauldin, (Western Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Athens, for appellee. Daniel J. Sabol, (Luftman, Heck & Associates LLP), Columbus, Donald Timothy Huey, Blaise J. Katter, (Huey Defense Firm), Columbus, for Amicus appellant. Patricia B. Attaway Burton, David Scott McLaughlinm, Paula Khristian Smith, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Jameson B. Bilsborrow, (Department Of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee. Margaret Ellen Heap, (Office of The District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, Joseph Scott Key, (Miller & Key, PA), McDonough, William Aubrey Finch, (Forsyth County Solicitor General's Office), Cumming, David Holmes, (Cherokee County District Attorney's Office), Canton, Samuel Richard d'Entremont, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for Neutral Amicus. Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Ross Warren Bergethon, David Scott McLaughlin, Paula Khristian Smith, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Jameson B. Bilsborrow, (Department Of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee. Gilbert Alexander Crosby, Peter J. Skandalakis, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., (Prosecuting Attorney's Council of Georgia), Morrow, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S18A1204

    Under Georgia Constitution, Motorist's Invocation of Right to Refuse Blood Alcohol Test Could Not Be Admitted Against Her at Trial

  • Browning v. Baker

    Publication Date: 2017-09-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-09-20
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Robert Clive Jones, Senior District Judge, Presiding Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw, Ronald M. Gould, and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy K. Ford (argued), MacDonald Hoague & Bayless, Seattle, Washington; Mark A. Larrañaga and Jacqueline K. Walsh, Walsh & Larrañaga, Seattle, Washington; for Petitioner-Appellant.
    for defendant: Victor-Hugo Schulze II (argued), Senior Deputy Attorney General; Thom Gover, Chief Deputy Attorney General; Adam Paul Laxalt, Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Las Vegas, Nevada; for Respondents-Appellees.
    Case Number: No. 15-99002

    Defense counsel's inadequate pretrial investigation and prosecutor's withholding of exculpatory evidence warranted habeas relief for death row inmate (Gould, J.)

  • Doe v. Hagenbeck, 15-1890-cv

    Publication Date: 2017-09-08
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Wesley, Livingston, and Chin, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellee for Jane Doe: Rebecca Ojserkis, Jonas Wang, Erin Baldwin, Kathryn Wynbrandt, Bethany Li, Michael J. Wishnie, Veteran Legal Services Clinic, Jerome M. Frank Legal Services Organization, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellants for Lt. Gen. Franklin Lee Hagenbeck and Brig. Gen. William E. Rapp: Christopher Connolly, Benjamin H. Torrance, Assistant United States Attorneys, New York, NY, for Joon H. Kim, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Amici Curiae for Amici Curiae Federal Courts and Constitutional Law Professors, in support of Jane Doe: Caitlin J. Halligan, Joel M. Cohen, Casey K. Lee, Kathryn M. Cherry, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY. For Amici Curiae University Administrators, in support of Jane Doe: Paul W. Hughes, Travis Crum, Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, D.C. For Amici Curiae Former Military Officers, in support of Jane Doe: Penelope A. Preovolos, Ben Patterson, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA. For Amici Curiae National Veterans Legal Services Program, Protect Our Defenders, Service Women's Action Network, in support of Jane Doe: John D. Niles, James Anglin Flynn, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, D.C. For Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union, American Association of University Women, Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic at the City University of New York School of Law, Human Rights Watch, National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence, National Women's Law Center, in support of Jane Doe: Sandra S. Park, Steven Watt, Lenora M. Lapidus, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY.
    Case Number: 15-1890-cv

    Incident-to-Service Rule Precluded Bivens Claim from Conduct at Military A