Emily Saul

August 22, 2024 | New York Law Journal

A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a lower court's finding that investors were owed reversionary interests in collateral backing the bonds, which recently matured.

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August 22, 2024 | New York Law Journal

The AG's submission defends the lower court's ruling as necessary to ensure "the integrity of the marketplace."

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August 20, 2024 | New York Law Journal

"The government said it would prosecute Senator Menendez for his alleged agreements to sell official acts in exchange for bribes," the defense filing reads. "But despite a 10-week trial, the government offered no actual evidence of an agreement, just speculation masked as inference."

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August 19, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Santos, 36, admitted in court that he and a campaign staffer submitted false reports to the Federal Election Commission and stole the identities as credit card information of campaign donors.

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August 19, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Defense attorneys last week argued that the judge must delay sentencing to give the team time to consider interlocutory appeals.

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August 14, 2024 | New York Law Journal

"Stated plainly, Defendant's arguments are nothing more than a repetition of stale and unsubstantiated claims," the jurist wrote. "This Court now reiterates for the third time, that which should already be clear—innuendo and mischaracterizations do not a conflict create. Recusal is therefore not necessary, much less required."

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August 13, 2024 | New York Law Journal

A New York judge has narrowed the claims at issue in a family dispute over control of the $2 billion real estate empire left behind by the late Sol Goldman. Goldman, who ran one of New York City's largest private real estate portfolios, died in 1987. His heirs are now battling for control.

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August 12, 2024 | New York Law Journal

"The impropriety of granting Santos's request is especially clear in light of what Santos has spent the past nine months doing, namely, courting the press and ginning up the very media attention he now laments may unfairly influence jurors," prosecutors argue.

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August 09, 2024 | New York Law Journal

"This case presents an extreme example of that overreach, in an area of law that demands clarity yet has become perilously muddled," reads the writ from Barry Berke, Dani James and Darren LaVerne of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel.

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August 09, 2024 | New York Law Journal

In dicta, U.S. Circuit Judge Beth Robinson said the "underrepresentation of Black and Hispanic or Latino people in SDNY venires has only increased" in recent decades.

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