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B. Colby Hamilton is a litigation reporter for the New York Law Journal and Law.com.
August 17, 2018
Bracewell partner Barbara Jones said nearly 7,150 items were found to be privileged among the millions seized by the government in April.
August 17, 2018
On top of being sexually harassed by acting Supreme Court Justice Douglas Hoffman, Alexis Marquez claims her complaint led to the watering down of the court system's sexual harassment policy.
August 16, 2018
Lauren and Dorothy Zarsky were charged with using non-public insider information provided second-hand from Rep. Collins to dump shares in a drug company he was a board member of.
August 15, 2018
U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty said the defendants were unable to defeat the 'Basic' presumption afforded the plaintiffs based on a preponderance of evidence.
August 15, 2018
Attorney William Brewer III was ordered by U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady to appear before him over statements on a pro hac vice application in Virginia federal court.
August 14, 2018
Acknowledging the unique arguments under federal sex trafficking statutes, Judge Robert Sweet found the allegations plausible that Weinstein enticed an aspiring female actor to perform a commercial sex act at the 2014 Cannes film festival.
August 13, 2018
The plaintiffs sought another shot at the claims after allegedly finding evidence during discovery that undermined a key fact that led to the collapse of a revenue sharing agreement.
August 10, 2018
U.S. District Judge Torres called for the program after a May report recommended officers begin recording during the lowest level of encounters with people.
August 09, 2018
A split panel ruled twice that Martoma's insider trading conviction should be upheld, despite the minority's critique that it undermined U.S. Supreme Court and circuit law on insider trading.
August 08, 2018
U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest's sua sponte decision, declining to assert jurisdiction on state-law claims, was reversed and remanded by the panel that took issue with her reasoning.
August 08, 2018
The upstate Republican allegedly passed along nonpublic information to his son from an Australian drug company whose board he sat on in 2017, Manhattan federal prosecutors said.
August 07, 2018
A panel issued two decisions, one upholding Sampson's convictions on obstruction of justice and lying to investigators, while the over reversed and remanded back to the district court a question on previously dismissed embezzlement charges.
August 07, 2018
The Queens tradition of judges and ADAs coming from the same family—unique in its scale among New York’s boroughs—has created a perception in the defense bar that its members are on the outside of an insular courthouse community.
August 06, 2018
Milgram will be succeeded by Cynthia Hanawalt, who was most recently chief of the enforcement section.
August 03, 2018
According to reports Friday, the president's hotel in Manhattan saw a substantial turnaround in finances after Saudi royalty made a five-day stay in May.
August 02, 2018
U.S. District Judge George Daniels dismissed the suit, agreeing that it failed to state a claim because the statements at issue couldn't be proven to be false.
August 02, 2018
The federal agency acquired nearly 100 mortgage-backed securities held by failed credit unions in the wake of the housing bubble burst.
August 01, 2018
The trio is being investigated for potentially failing to register as foreign agents for their work as lobbyists.
July 31, 2018
The class action suit claimed the fund managers failed to uphold their fiduciary duties by reducing record-keeping costs and by allowing two supposedly underperforming funds to remain as investment options.
July 30, 2018
The former New York City mayor's latest claims about the legal status of collusion finds an incredulous audience with former prosecutors and attorneys.
July 27, 2018
The jury found a top Columbia Business School professor and the university itself liable for retaliation against a former assistant professor's sexual harrassment claims.
July 26, 2018
The sexual harassment suit brought by professor Enrichetta Ravina alleged that Columbia Business School professor Geert Bekaert sabotaged her work and slandered her name in the economic academic community after she declined his romantic advances.
July 26, 2018
Following up on a preliminary determination, Judge Furman allowed the pair of suits to proceed, even as he dismissed arguments Commerce Sectary Wilbur Ross was not empowered to include an immigration question on the 2020 census.
July 25, 2018
Reflecting on his four-and-half-years in City Hall, Berger spoke to the New York Law Journal about the administration's numerous achievements, not least of which is what he called the most diverse and qualified judiciary pool the city's ever seen.
July 24, 2018
New York, eclipsing Florida, was second only to California in Americans with Disabilities Act claims in federal courts during the first six months of 2018, according to an analysis by Seyfarth Shaw.
July 23, 2018
WE Legal, launched by the city's Department of Small Business Services, hopes to support female entrepreneurs in need of critical legal know-how.
July 23, 2018
The announcement, made by special master Barbara Jones in a court filing, comes just days after a conversation between Cohen and President Donald Trump became public.
July 20, 2018
The previously undisclosed recording puts a renewed focus on the special master's privilege review process.
July 19, 2018
U.S. District Judge John Keenan of the Southern District of New York found the city's arguments were ultimately about emissions, which the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled were governed by federal environmental law.
July 19, 2018
Speaking to the Citizens Budget Commission, the AG said new state laws were necessary in the event federal protections were rolled back.
July 19, 2018
Four years after the death of Eric Garner at the hands of members of the New York Police Department, internal disciplinary proceedings against two officers involved in the incident are set to begin immediately, an NYPD spokesman confirmed.
July 18, 2018
She was nominated to the federal bench by President Barack Obama in 2011.
July 17, 2018
A special master reviewing the material seized from Michael Cohen's home and offices in April has already released 3.2 million items to federal prosecutors, with more still expected, based on recent court filings.
July 17, 2018
Dean Skelos was accused of leveraging his power over companies in need of government assistance to secure low- or no-show jobs for his son Adam Skelos.
July 16, 2018
Lisette Paulson sued Tidal, Jay-Z's entertainment company Roc Nation, and a number of individual Tidal managers in 2016, claiming seven federal and state sex and pregnancy violations after being fired the previous year.
July 16, 2018
In a letter to a top DOJ official, Chief Lawrence Byrnes said the department intended to move forward with internal disciplinary proceedings Sept. 1 if federal authorities do not act against the officers involved in the death of Eric Garner.
July 13, 2018
U.S. District Judge George Daniels of the Southern District of New York succinctly put an end to a dramatic tangential episode in the ongoing lawsuit against Fox News and two people connected to a now-retracted story about the murder of former Democratic National Committee employee Seth Rich.
July 13, 2018
All 12 are members of the Russian military intelligence service GRU, the DOJ said.
July 12, 2018
U.S. District Judge William Pauley III found the numerous federal and state claims that code used by online retailers to gather detailed information from visitors to three online retailers failed.
July 11, 2018
According to federal regulators, a Virginia engineer was part of a scheme to file fake documents through the SEC's public filing website that claimed a fake company was going to buy premium Fitbit stock at a big price markup.
July 10, 2018
The panel said the petition to have Cravath produce documents it held on behalf of its client, Royal Dutch Shell, would do damage to the trust foreign companies have in the United States' litigation process.
July 10, 2018
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein found that, after reading both works, the claims of "striking similarities" between the unpublished work of the plaintiff and the award-winning novel were unavailing.
July 09, 2018
Attorneys for each side painted starkly different versions of events in the sexual harassment suit brought by former assistant professor Enrichetta Ravina against Columbia professor Geert Bekaert and the school.
July 06, 2018
Despite being elevated to the Second Circuit nearly eight years ago, Judge Denny Chin has maintained a regular presence at the district level, including a trial set to begin this month.
July 03, 2018
The motion to dismiss, filed by Attorney General Barbara Underwood's office, claims the targeting of unlawful insurance practices by the state has had no impact on the gun group's speech ability.
July 02, 2018
The move by the nation's highest court to hear the challenge to the “separate sovereigns” exception comes as New York lawmakers, eyeing possible Trump pardons, seek to close a loophole in the state's own double jeopardy protections.
June 29, 2018
The panel Friday sided with its sister circuit's order negating an FCC ruling that broadened the possibility for what fell inside federal law regulating autodialers.
June 29, 2018
The panel explained its reasoning for forcing the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to implement new inflation-linked penalties.
June 28, 2018
In a letter to U.S. District Judge George Daniels, Wigdor partner Jeanne Christensen said Ed Butowsky left threatening phone messages for Douglas Wigdor, asking for a meeting. Butowsky called the move malicious.
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June 27, 2018
The CIA had denied the requests for records by employing the so-called 'Glomar' response.
June 27, 2018
The class action claims the Office of Refugee Resettlement's new policy unduly delays transfer of unaccompanied minors in its care.
June 26, 2018
Federal authorities say the analyst provided nonpublic information about Sherwin-Williams' upcoming acquisition of Valspar to two associates, neither of whom had ever traded on securities before.
June 26, 2018
U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood said the organization had until July 5 to finish its review of all the material provided by Cohen's team at McDermott Will & Emery, which itself has told Wood it is finished with its own review process—and will make more than 12,000 privilege claims.
June 25, 2018
While the majority suggested its own decision in 'Newman' still held insider trading convictions, the dissent argued the amended decision was merely playing with semantics.
June 25, 2018
The adult film actress' attorney Michael Avennati said the office's decision to forego a planned interview ahead of possible grand jury testimony was "ridiculous."
June 24, 2018
The adult film actress will meet with federal prosecutors in Manhattan on Monday, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.
June 24, 2018
According to private attorney Alan Futerfas, one of the document productions from Michael Cohen's team at McDermott Will & Emery last week was the largest yet.
June 22, 2018
U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood approved the recommendations for privilege from special master Barbara Jones, while setting deadlines for bringing the process to a close.
June 22, 2018
The panel found the appellants' attempts to reach the high bar to succeed with a facial challenge was not met.
June 21, 2018
In a partial win for the defendants in the case, U.S. District Senior Judge Loretta Preska pulled from the dissents in a recent en banc ruling by the D.C. Circuit to find the consumer watchdog organization was unconstitutionally constructed.
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.
New York Law Journal |Analysis
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.
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