Another Loaded List of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs
This week's group is led by a joint team from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, the Civil Rights Corps and the San Francisco Public Defender's Office that won a ruling from the California Supreme Court barring courts from detaining arrestees solely based on the fact that they don't have the money to pay for cash bail.
April 02, 2021 at 07:30 AM
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Our first runner-up this week is a joint team from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, the Civil Rights Corps and the San Francisco Public Defender's Office. That group last week won a significant ruling from the California Supreme Court barring courts from detaining arrestees solely based on the fact that they don't have the money to pay for cash bail. "What we hold is that where a financial condition is nonetheless necessary, the court must consider the arrestee's ability to pay the stated amount of bail—and may not effectively detain the arrestee 'solely because' the arrestee 'lacked the resources' to post bail," wrote Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar for the unanimous court. Wilmer partner Daniel Volchok argued the appeal alongside co-counsel. Other Wilmer lawyers involved included Seth Waxman, co-chair of the firm's appellate and Supreme Court litigation practice, and counsel Thomas Sprankling. Civil Rights Corps lawyers on the matter included Alec Karakatsanis and Katherine Hubbard.
Also getting some runner-up love this week is a team at Kirkland & Ellis who scored an important win for poultry producer Sanderson Farms at the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday. A Ninth Circuit panel found that nonprofit advocacy organizations lacked organizational standing to sue Sanderson for false advertising based on allegations it used antibiotics on its chickens. "To establish organizational standing, the advocacy groups needed to show that the challenged conduct frustrated their organizational missions and that they diverted resources to combat that conduct," wrote Judge M. Margaret McKeown, concluding that the organizations did neither thing. Kirkland partner Michael Glick argued the appeal. Associates Paul Weeks and Erin Cady led the briefing effort. Associate T.J. McCarrick, who took a key deposition in the case, rejoined the firm after briefing was complete following a clerkship with Ninth Circuit Judge (and Kirkland alum) Daniel Bress.
Another runner-up spot this week goes to a team at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan who scored a $6.2 million attorneys' fees award for their client, entrepreneur Sean Gourley, in a trade secret and breach of contract suit brought his former employer Netbase Quid. Gourley asked a state court in California this week to confirm an arbitration award that granted Netbase Quid just $1 on its $160 million damages claim and gave Gourley his attorneys' fees as the prevailing party. Quinn's Claude Stern, Dan Posner and Ryan Landes led the team representing Gourley in the matter.
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Amy O. Bruchs and Kurt F. Ellison of Michael Best & Friedrich have entered appearances for Epic Systems Corp. in a pending employment discrimination lawsuit. The suit was filed Sept. 7 in Wisconsin Western District Court by Levine Eisberner LLC and Siri & Glimstad on behalf of a project manager who claims that he was wrongfully terminated after applying for a religious exemption to the defendant's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The case, assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge Anita Marie Boor, is 3:24-cv-00630, Secker, Nathan v. Epic Systems Corporation.
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David X. Sullivan, Thomas J. Finn and Gregory A. Hall from McCarter & English have entered appearances for Sunrun Installation Services in a pending civil rights lawsuit. The complaint was filed Sept. 4 in Connecticut District Court by attorney Robert M. Berke on behalf of former employee George Edward Steins, who was arrested and charged with employing an unregistered home improvement salesperson. The complaint alleges that had Sunrun informed the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection that the plaintiff's employment had ended in 2017 and that he no longer held Sunrun's home improvement contractor license, he would not have been hit with charges, which were dismissed in May 2024. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer, is 3:24-cv-01423, Steins v. Sunrun, Inc. et al.
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Greenberg Traurig shareholder Joshua L. Raskin has entered an appearance for boohoo.com UK Ltd. in a pending patent infringement lawsuit. The suit, filed Sept. 3 in Texas Eastern District Court by Rozier Hardt McDonough on behalf of Alto Dynamics, asserts five patents related to an online shopping platform. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap, is 2:24-cv-00719, Alto Dynamics, LLC v. boohoo.com UK Limited.
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