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B. Colby Hamilton is a litigation reporter for the New York Law Journal and Law.com.
April 15, 2019 | New York Law Journal
The panel moved the circuit in line with the rest of the appellate courts around the country, allowing district courts a limited review, which could contain material outside of the complaint, to establish the veracity of certain prisoner litigation situations.
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April 12, 2019 | New York Law Journal
The appellate panel reversed and remanded a district court ruling that would have allowed the Chinese e-commerce site Dangdang to handle a securities class action suit in the Cayman Islands.
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April 11, 2019 | New York Law Journal
Prosecutors said the employee participated in two separate schemes that siphoned more than $300,000 from city coffers, earmarked for the city's most needy.
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April 11, 2019 | New York Law Journal
The panel largely agreed with the district court's dismissal of the wide-ranging set of allegations by the former employee, but found her claims of retaliation after complaining about sex and race-based harassment were plausible enough to survive the motion to dismiss.
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April 10, 2019 | New York Law Journal
The appellate panel retroactively applied changes to the federal sentencing guidelines that would have precluded an order of protection issued by a state court against the defendant from justifying a sentencing guidelines enhancement.
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April 10, 2019 | New York Law Journal
The panel found U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni was well within her discretion in cutting the requested attorney fees of approximately $83,000 down by more than 90 percent.
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April 9, 2019 | New York Law Journal
Melanie Williams-Bethea pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery in October 2018 after prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York charged her and a number of co-defendants in January 2018 with a $2 million bribe and kickback scheme.
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April 9, 2019 | New York Law Journal
U.S. District Judge John Koeltl finalized his March 15 summary judgment order, laying out how federal immigration authorities were to remediate the improper denials of petitions filed by young, at-risk immigrants.
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April 8, 2019 | New York Law Journal
The appellate panel found the district court erred in both applying outdated precedent to justify granting summary judgment, as well as conducting a 'piecemeal' assessment of the record.
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April 8, 2019 | New York Law Journal
The international automaker faced litigation from investors over costly settlements with regulators over safety and emissions problems, despite public assurance to the contrary from company executives.
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