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B. Colby Hamilton is a litigation reporter for the New York Law Journal and Law.com.
June 18, 2018
In May, Xerox officially announced it was terminating the deal, after months of legal and public pressure by two of its largest investors, Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason.
June 18, 2018
Barbara Underwood makes it clear she has no intentions of dialing back the office's efforts during her historic tenure as AG.
June 13, 2018
New York City has alleged a number of energy companies' contributions to climate change represent a public nuisance, while the energy companies argue the suit should be tossed based on recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
June 13, 2018
Cohen may soon be fighting multiple legal challenges without his high-powered lawyers from McDermott, Will & Emery at his side.
June 12, 2018
William McFarland was charged Tuesday by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York in another ticket fraud scheme, despite pleading guilty to multiple fraud counts.
June 12, 2018
The deadline for responding to the first set of privilege decisions by the parties in Michael Cohen's case came and went Monday, with sources indicating the Trump and Cohen teams may have had a change of heart.
June 12, 2018
For the third time, U.S. District Judge Forrest ordered Joseph Allaham to produce discovery material subpoenaed as part of a California suit filed by a Trump fundraiser over an alleged discrediting scheme using stolen and leaked emails.
June 11, 2018
The consent decree, announced by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office on Monday, will see another federal monitor imposed on the city's public housing authority.
June 08, 2018
A Chicago gallery says workers and festival goers were forced out over intolerable conditions, costing it and other potential class members business.
June 08, 2018
The order Friday was a victory for Manhattan prosecutors and media outlets that objected to the request from Trump's legal team to file their objections under seal and ex parte.
June 08, 2018
The report was the first by former federal Judge Stephen Robinson, who was installed as civilian oversight following the settlement of two surveillance cases by the NYPD last year.
June 07, 2018
Both the government and attorneys for a number of media outlets argue that the objections to privilege determinations should be at least partially public.
June 07, 2018
Advocates say U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services abandoned a decadelong policy that protected young adult immigrants.
June 07, 2018
A party-appointed arbitrator's failure to disclose connections on its face isn't enough to disqualify an award, the panel found.
June 06, 2018
The appellate panel found the New York Court of Appeals' response to certified questions showed the Lower Manhattan authority had no ability to sue on state constitutional grounds.
June 05, 2018
Counsel for the news organization BuzzFeed claim the department was wrong not to hand over transcripts of a proceeding attended by one of its reporters.
June 05, 2018
The move Monday comes as the Twitter users at the heart of the suit say they've been unblocked from the president's account, according to the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.
June 05, 2018
Bond has served as special advisor for criminal justice and public safety in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office since 2015.
June 04, 2018
The deferred prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice represents the first coordinated resolution with French authorities in a foreign bribery case, according to officials.
June 01, 2018
According to one of the latest plaintiffs, Weinstein attorney Ben Brafman presented himself as an advocate for the Hollywood producer's victims in order to gain access to evidence she says she had of the assault.
May 31, 2018
If adopted, the measure would require immigration officials to have a judicial warrant or order on hand in order to make an arrest in a state courthouse.
May 31, 2018
Federal authorities say Steve Jung used his access to an overseas friend's account to place trades based on nonpublic information gathered as a vice president with the global investment bank.
May 30, 2018
Shortly after the hearing, which saw a June 15 deadline for Cohen's team to finish its privilege review process, Avenatti pulled his pro hac motion before the court.
May 30, 2018
Shortly after the hearing in Michael Cohen's case in Manhattan federal court, Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti withdrew his pro hac motion.
May 29, 2018
Bracewell partner Barbara Jones' $700 per hour rate was applied to work done in April in the review of material seized by the government from Michael Cohen's offices and home.
May 29, 2018
Brafman said he raised the concerns during a two-hour meeting with Judge James Burke and Manhattan prosecutors that's now under seal.
May 29, 2018
Three of the four presumed candidates for attorney general are women, and three of the four are African-American, including the GOP's pick, attorney Keith Wofford.
May 25, 2018
The former Hollywood producer is facing multiple sexual assault charges connected to two separate incidents.
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May 24, 2018
The same day Barbara Underwood was selected as interim attorney general the office was part of a plea agreement with an associate of Michael Cohen who agreed to cooperate with the government.
May 23, 2018
Weinstein's attorney, Benjamin Brafman, confirmed reports he spoke with federal authorities about the probe.
May 23, 2018
U.S. District Judge Naomi Buchwald ruled Wednesday that the @realDonaldTrump Twitter account falls under the U.S. Supreme Court's public forum doctrine.
May 22, 2018
In a letter to U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood of the Southern District of New York Tuesday, attorney Michael Avenatti said the leaks were believed to be related to his client, meant to "paint a false narrative."
May 22, 2018
U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel said the jury was within its bounds to find Det. Edwin Mateo used excessive force during a deadly interaction with a emotionally disturbed Manhattan man in 2012.
May 22, 2018
The former acting U.S. solicitor general and Manhattan federal prosecutor has been acting attorney general since Eric Schneiderman's resignation in early May.
May 21, 2018
In a letter filed late Monday, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office said it "takes no position" in the battle raging between Stormy Daniels' attorney and counsel for the president's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.
May 18, 2018
In a brief filed late Friday, an attorney for the president's personal attorney asked U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood to deny Michael Avenatti's pro hac vice application.
May 17, 2018
U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman of the Southern District of New York said his office believed the case represents the first of its kind, calling it "a long overdue evaluation by law enforcement."
May 17, 2018
The women are being vetted by adult film actress Stormy Daniels' attorney, and allegedly were paid even more than the $130,000 Daniels received from President Trump's attorney.
May 16, 2018
The payment appears to represent Trump's reimbursement of funds his attorney Michael Cohen paid an adult film actress to keep her from going public about an alleged affair.
May 16, 2018
Brent Borland allegedly used funds raised to build a private airport in Belize for payments towards a Florida mortgage, a Mercedes-Benz and other personal items.
May 16, 2018
Brent Borland is accused of diverting money to pay for the mortgage on a waterfront home and a beach club membership in Delray Beach.
May 16, 2018
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. will stop prosecuting low-level marijuana cases beginning in August, his office announced Tuesday.
May 15, 2018
In a filing in support of his pro hac vice application, Stormy Daniels' attorney said he had a First Amendment right to publish financial information about Michael Cohen.
May 15, 2018
In a brief filed Monday, the firm said irreconcilable differences with its client, former Fox News contributor Rod Wheeler, had emerged.
May 14, 2018
The California-based commercial litigation attorney and his own practice have racked up over $1 billion in verdicts in cases against some of the biggest companies and law firms out there. "I stand by the legal work we've done, and the results we've attained," he said.
May 14, 2018
The department handed over 160,000 documents related to a year's worth of seizures in the Bronx as part of a settlement agreement with The Bronx Defenders and Davis Wright Tremaine.
May 12, 2018
The names of those entering the Assembly's vetting process include a member of Congress, a former Brooklyn DA, members of the Assembly, and a tech entrepreneur.
May 11, 2018
The former head of the state Assembly was accused of honest services fraud, extortion, and other corruption crimes.
May 11, 2018
In a letter to Judge Kimba Wood, attorney Peter Gleason asked for an injunction to stop a memorialized communication between him and Cohen, which the government may have in its possession, from becoming public.
May 10, 2018
After 24 hour of pointed letters sent back and forth between the two offices, the Manhattan DA and Gov. Cuomo held a press conference alongside Nassau DA Singas and her Suffolk County counterpart in a show of support for the launch of the special counsel investigation into former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
May 10, 2018
The president's selection of three Southern District, four Eastern District and a Western District nominee came as part of a rare point of comity, with a source confirming cooperation between the White House and Sen. Charles Schumer's office.
May 09, 2018
In a letter filed late Wednesday, McDermott Will & Emery partner Stephen Ryan said recent statements made by Stormy Daniels' attorney, based on documents he has no right possessing, show he should not be granted his application for pro hoc vice in the Southern District.
May 09, 2018
Cuomo's counsel took Vance to task for suggesting the Manhattan DA's Office should be allowed to investigate "private citizen" Schneiderman, since his departure from the office obviated any potential conflict.
May 09, 2018
Jay Alix, founder of McKinsey rival AlixPartners, claims McKinsey has unfairly profited by keeping secret its conflicted client relationships while handling bankruptcy cases, despite federal bankruptcy rules that require disclosure.
May 09, 2018
During a speech in Manhattan on Wednesday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said the department wanted to go after individual wrongdoing at companies to deter future bad actors—not simply force companies into big civil settlements.
May 09, 2018
The Manhattan DA said the governor violated the separation of powers, utilizing a logical fallacy to justify pulling him off the Schneiderman investigation over what the DA said was a nonexistent conflicted of interest.
May 08, 2018
It's only the latest role for the well-respected litigator, who's worked in state, district and U.S. attorney offices, and operated in local courts in Brooklyn as well as appearing before the U.S. Supreme Court some 20 times.
May 08, 2018
Defense attorneys outlined the various misdemeanor and felony charges Schneiderman could be exposed to—if someone were to press charges.
May 07, 2018
The state legislature is empowered to collectively pick a replacement to serve the remainder of Schneiderman's term.
May 07, 2018
After lying dormant for over a decade pending similar litigation in state courts, three lawsuits on behalf of a number of gentlemen's clubs were joined recently by another suit filed by a bookstore with viewing booths to challenge the constitutionality of the 2001 zoning ordinance.
May 07, 2018
Last week, the SEC filed suit against the world-famous rapper in the Southern District of New York, requesting the court compel him to testify in an investigation over the company he sold his Rocawear clothing line to in 2007.
May 04, 2018
In affirming a district court's dismissal under the CEA, the panel laid out the requirements for standing and actual injury, which it noted were already found in numerous similar securities suit decisions by district courts in the circuit.
May 04, 2018
Prosecutors alleged a political intelligence consultant passed along information illegally purloined from Medicare administrators to hedge fund partners who used it to make millions.
May 03, 2018
The decision was announced by Chief Judge Dora Irizarry on Thursday.
May 03, 2018
The panel said the district court was wrong to allow a bond buyer's testimony that Jesse Litvak was operating as an agent, when he was not.
May 03, 2018
Regulators want to talk to the rapper about Iconix, the company he sold his clothing line Rocawear to in 2007.
May 02, 2018
The finding came in a reversal and remand of a district court's dismissal of a suit brought by Muslim plaintiffs who claimed they'd been added to the federal no-fly list after refusing to become government informants.
May 01, 2018
The latest request for interlocutory appeal the government is expected to file soon will join a previous request for the circuit court to review another motion to dismiss, as well as the current briefings occurring now over the nationwide injunction that's halted the wind-down of the immigration policy.
April 30, 2018
Silver's counsel, Allen & Overy partner Michael Feldberg, previewed the defense strategy of attacking the definitive link between an official act and a thing of value to prove a bribery charge after McDonnell v. United States.
April 27, 2018
Lurlyn Winchester, who was elected in 2013, admitted to providing falsified documents to secure a loan for a condo she needed to meet the residency requirement for being a town justice.
April 26, 2018
The adult film actress said in a motion to intercede that there is reason to believe privileged communications shared between her former attorney and Cohen were among the documents seized by the government earlier this month.
April 26, 2018
A 17-year veteran of the Southern District of New York, Bracewell partner Barbara Jones was tapped Thursday to handle the review of privilege claims by President Donald Trump, the Trump Organization and Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen.
April 26, 2018
"Ms. Clifford plainly has an interest in ensuring these materials are appropriately handled in a manner that will not cause her prejudice through improper disclosure, and that the materials be shared with her in a timely fashion."
April 25, 2018
Berman, who was neither nominated by President Trump nor confirmed by the U.S. Senate, was set to see his term as an appointee end next week.
April 25, 2018
A 2015 article by The Wall Street Journal said Diosdado Cabello, described as the second-most powerful man in Venezuela, was being investigated by U.S. officials for turning the country into a global hub for cocaine trafficking and money laundering.
April 24, 2018
John Chambers, a former prosecutor in the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, marketed himself as a top firearm licensing attorney in New York.
April 23, 2018
Kenneth Lafave resigned in March over claims he behaved inappropriately from the bench during a 2016 eviction case.
April 23, 2018
In an order Monday, an appellate panel vacated the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's rolled-back penalties for automakers who violated fuel efficiency standards.
April 20, 2018
The energy company, facing probes into whether it deceived shareholders and the public over climate change, saw its suit against the attorneys general tossed in late March.
April 20, 2018
The family real estate company previously run by President Trump's son-in-law is being looked at over reports it filed false housing paperwork in New York City.
April 20, 2018
The suit, drawing on the volume of reporting over the issue, seeks to subject Trump campaign officials, as well as Russia, to the civil discovery process.
April 20, 2018
It was the denouement in the riveting drama that played out over two days before U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood : When Davis Wright Tremaine partner Rob Balin convinced the court to compel Michael Cohen's to reveal his third client.
April 19, 2018
Days after appearing in federal court over material seized in a federal raid, Cohen's attorney confirmed he's dropping suits in state and federal court against Buzzfeed, which published the dossier, and the political research group that commissioned it, Fusion GPS.
April 19, 2018
Johnny Hincapie was freed in 2015 after evidence raised questions over his conviction in the 1990 killing of a tourist on a Manhattan subway platform.
April 18, 2018
The attorney general said that state law prevents, absent a court-provided exception, the prosecution of certain crimes already brought along to the point of a plea or a grand jury's swearing in.
April 18, 2018
Cohen's attorneys presented Judge Kimba Wood with a list of four names, all former prosecutors in private practice, while prosecutors with the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office sent over three of their own, all former magistrate judges from the Southern District of New York.
April 18, 2018
Cohen's attorneys presented Judge Kimba Wood with a list of four names, all former prosecutors in private practice, while prosecutors with the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office sent over three of their own, all former magistrate judges from the Southern District of New York.
April 17, 2018
While the Fox News host downplayed his relationship to Cohen on Monday, the network stated Tuesday that Hannity continues to have its "full support."
April 17, 2018
The plaintiffs allege issues arose after the NFL hired Cathy Lanier, the former Washington, D.C., chief of police, as its new security chief in 2016.
April 16, 2018
The reveal in open court upstaged the presence of pornographic actress Stormy Daniels, who attended the hearing before U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood Monday.
April 13, 2018
Counsel for President Trump said she'd only been brought on board Wednesday—two days after the White House, and the world, learned of the government's raid on Trump's attorney's offices.
April 12, 2018
Elizabeth Ann Pierce allegedly forged the signatures on fake agreements showing hundreds of millions in future revenues to lure in two New York firms.
April 12, 2018
District Judge Paul Gardephe conflated the merits of the claims with the issue of standing on an issue in a New York State insurance law that isn't settled by state courts yet.
April 11, 2018
According to the complaint, Chase credit card customers began having their cryptocurrency purchases treated as cash advances beginning in late January.
April 11, 2018
The commission's recommendation comes after it says O'Connor refused to cooperate with its investigation into his actions on the bench.
April 10, 2018
The application of the exception follows rigorous rules, but don't let it distract you from the peril the FBI's raid more broadly puts Trump's attorney in.
April 09, 2018
The raid was confirmed by Cohen's attorney, McDermott Will & Emery partner Stephen Ryan.
April 09, 2018
Citing the U.S. Supreme Court and its own decisions, the panel Monday again sent back down a suit Southern District Judge Katherine Forrest has twice now attempted to close out.
April 06, 2018
The comedian says allegations by the director of the original pilot are both time-barred and simply too general to stick.
April 06, 2018
A new ombudsperson will serve as an outlet for residents, and will have the power to issue relief to enforce violations of the agreement.
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