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From: New York Law360 <[email protected]> To: Subject: [EXTERNAL] Senior NY Judge Flouting Vax Mandate Provokes Unions' Ire Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2021 09:11:13 +0000 Law3 60 New NEW YORK York Thursday, October 7, 2021 Le.;Follow Law360 TOP NEWS Law360 MVPs 2021 Senior NY Judge Flouting Vax Mandate Provokes Unions' Ire New York state court employees facing termination if they fail to comply with the chief judge's COVID-19 vaccination mandate on Wednesday called out the comparatively light treatment of the lone judge flouting the order, Court of Appeals Judge Jenny Rivera. Read full article » Maxwell Jury May Be Asked To Sit During Holiday Season A group of 12 New Yorkers may spend the holiday season hearing sex- trafficking evidence against Ghislaine Maxwell, after a Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday floated the idea of having jurors sit between Christmas and New Year's Day. Order attached I Read full article » LAW FIRMS FDNY Can't Dodge 'Boys' Club' Sex Harassment Suit Aaronson Rappaport A federal judge refused to toss a lawsuit from a female paramedic who Arnold & Porter claimed the New York City Fire Department ignored her complaints about co- Ashby & Geddes workers sending her lewd photos then slashed her hours and gave her dangerous assignments as punishment for objecting to unwelcome Bingham McCutchen advances. Blank Rome Order attached I Read full article » Canton Fields Cipriani & Werner Ex-Partner's Feud With Dentons Up To Arbitrator, Judge Says Cohen & Gresser A New York state judge has declined to weigh in further on a former Dentons Cohen Ziffer partner's claims that he was wrongfully fired, ruling Tuesday that it's up to an Cummings & Lockwood arbitrator to determine how to proceed while a parallel appeal plays out in DLA Piper California. Dentons Order attached I Read full article » Fox Rothschild Rakoff Won't Call 'Foul' On NBA Agent's Truck Gift For Player Gibson Dunn An NBA agent who accused a rival of illegally luring away New York Knicks Gorayeb & Associates center Mitchell Robinson with a Chevy truck can't use the court system to Greenspoon Marder enforce professional rules, Manhattan federal judge Jed Rakoff said Haddon Morgan Wednesday as he explained why he dismissed the suit. Harris Bricken Order attached I Read full article » Hunton Andrews Jones Day REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT Joseph & Kirschenbaum Kelley Drye Helps With $61M Manhattan Hotel Loan Kelley Drye EFTA00083559 A KSL Capital Partners entity has loaned $61 million to an entity affiliated Kennedys Law LLP with Arnold & Porter for a Manhattan hotel, and Kelley Drye worked on the King & Spalding matter, according to records made public in New York City on Wednesday. Kirkland & Ellis Read full article » Kloss Stenger Real Estate Rumors: Ascentris, Charlesbank, Bridge Industrial Labaton Sucharow An Ascentris venture has reportedly sold a Florida office campus for $77.3 million, Charlesbank Capital Partners is said to be leasing 15,475 square feet Latham & Watkins in New York, and Bridge Industrial is reportedly buying 175.2 acres in Florida Law Offices of Jeffrey Delott and is hoping to rezone the property. Lipsitz & Ponterio Read full article » Lowenstein Sandler Maranda E. Fritz PC INSURANCE McDermott Will Spirit Airlines Sues AIG Over Coronavirus Coverage Miedel & Mysliwiec Spirit Airlines is suing AIG unit American Home Assurance Co. for coverage Morris James of losses it suffered because of the coronavirus pandemic, telling a New York Mound Cotton state court the virus caused physical damage to its properties. Moye White Complaint attached I Read full article » Murphy Rosen O'Melveny & Myers Prison Medical Provider's COVID-19 Coverage Suit Tossed Orrick Herrington A medical care provider for jails and prisons lost its bid for COVID-19 coverage after a New York state judge dismissed its suit against more than a Parsons Behle dozen insurers. Paul Hastings Order attached I Read full article )> Paul Weiss Perkins Coie PRODUCT LIABILITY Phillips Lytle Quinn Emanuel 2nd Circ. Revives Bladder Cancer Suit Against DuPont Robbins Geller The Second Circuit on Wednesday gave a Goodyear worker another shot at allegations that chemicals manufactured by a predecessor of E.I. DuPont de Robinson & Cole Nemours and Co. gave him bladder cancer, finding that the district court was Sheppard Mullin wrong in excluding his expert witness. Skadden Arps Opinion attached I Read full article » Sullivan & Cromwell Taylor English PERSONAL INJURY & MEDICAL MALPRACTICE Trusted Counsel Ashley LLC WilmerHale Cyclist Keeps $3.9M Verdict In NYC Bus Crash Suit Wollmuth Maher A New York appeals court has upheld a $3.9 million verdict awarded to a cyclist who says he was sideswiped by a New York City Transit Authority Bus, Woods Lonergan saying the amount is in line with similar cases the courts have heard. Zelle LLP Opinion attached I Read full article » COMPANIES BENEFITS AXA XL Ltd. Acreage Holdings Inc. DOL Urges Revival Of Hartford ERISA Suit At 2nd Circ. Alpine Securities Corp. The Second Circuit should resurrect a former Hartford Life & Accident Altice SA Insurance Co. employee's ERISA suit seeking disability benefits and reverse Altice USA a federal district court's ruling that the ex-worker prematurely filed suit before American Bankruptcy Institute exhausting his administrative remedies, the U.S. Department of Labor said. Brief attached I Read full article » American Bar Association American Home Assurance Co. SECURITIES & WHITE COLLAR American International Group Inc. BTI Consulting Group Inc. Feds Jump-Cut To Key Witness At Ex-Iconix CEO's Fraud Trial Beacon Capital Partners LLC A star witness in the Manhattan U.S. attorney's case charging ex-Iconix Bridge Investment Group LLC Brand Group CEO Neil Cole with an $11 million accounting fraud pointed the Canopy Growth Corp. finger at Cole on Wednesday morning, moments after Cole's lawyers asserted during trial openings that the witness is a liar. Cato Institute EFTA00083560 Read full article » Charlesbank Capital Partners LLC SEC Hits Back At Bid To Curb Its AML Reporting Enforcement China International Economic and The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is urging the U.S. Supreme Trade Arbitration Commission Court to turn down a penny-stock broker's challenge to the agency's Citigroup Inc. enforcement of anti-money laundering reporting requirements, arguing that Crum & Forster Holdings Corp. its exercise of authority in this area fits within its broader investor protection mandate. DuPont de Nemours Inc. Brief attached I Read full article » Early Warning Services LLC Global Brands Group Holding Ltd. Prosecutors Back Boston US Atty Pick Amid GOP Opposition Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. A group of 66 prosecutors urged the U.S. Senate on Tuesday to confirm HDI Global Specialty SE Rachael Rollins, President Joe Biden's pick for U.S. attorney in Highgate Hotels Inc. Massachusetts, defending her approach to criminal justice reform and Iconix Brand Group, Inc. slamming Republican lawmakers for holding up the appointment with "fearmongering." KSL Capital Partners LLC Statement attached I Read full article » Kenneth Cole Productions Inc. Kona Grill Inc. Goldman, Investors Lay Out Cert. Fight Args For NY Judge Lexington Insurance Co. After a winding path to and from the U.S. Supreme Court, Goldman Sachs LexisNexis Group and its investors are back before the New York federal judge where their Li & Fung Ltd. decade-old stock-drop case began, once again presenting arguments for and against class certification. Medley Management Inc. 2 documents attached I Read full article » MetLife Inc. Metropolitan Transportation NY Fund Boss Gets 7 Years For $26M Belize Airport Scam Authority The owner of an investment fund has been sentenced to seven years in National Basketball Players prison for swindling $26 million from dozens of investors by lying to them Association about an airport he was purportedly building in Belize that never materialized. New York Knicks Read full article » New York Law School QUALCOMM Inc. BANKRUPTCY RELX PLC Securities Investor Protection Ex-Cred Exec Rips Efforts To Block His Bankruptcy Discharge Corp. An embattled former executive of bankrupt cryptocurrency venture Cred has Spirit Airlines Inc. objected to the Office of the U.S. Trustee's efforts to block his discharge from bankruptcy, saying he's been scapegoated and subjected to a "proxy criminal Tampa International Airport prosecution." The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 3 documents attached Read full article » The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc. Medley Ch. 11 Plan Supporters Clarify Cash Flow United Overseas Bank Supporters of Medley LLC's proposed Chapter 11 plan on Wednesday Wellpath clarified for a Delaware bankruptcy judge the asset management firm's cash flow from its operating subsidiaries. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Read full article » Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CANNABIS District Council 37 Equal Employment Opportunity Pot Atty Wants Canopy Added To $200M Suit Against Acreage Commission A cannabis attorney claiming he holds a financial stake in one of the original Federal Bureau of Investigation licensed medical marijuana businesses in New York asked to add pot giant Canopy Growth as a defendant in a sprawling, yearslong, $200 million Federal Communications lawsuit. Commission 2 documents attached I Read full article » Federal Reserve System Financial Crimes Enforcement INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION Network Montana Attorney General's Office Judge Says Haiti Central Bank Immune, Nixes Award Suit Stay New York State Senate EFTA00083561 A New York federal judge won't let Preble-Rish Haiti SA pause its $23 million U.S. Attorney's Office for the award enforcement suit against the Haitian government, ruling Tuesday that District of Massachusetts the engineering firm most likely won't succeed while appealing for discovery U.S. Attorney's Office for the access to the country's central bank funds. Southern District of New York Opinion attached I Read full article » U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the TELECOMMUNICATIONS District of Delaware U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Altice Hit With Suit Over Canceled Internet During Pandemic Southern District of New York Altice USA has been hit with a proposed class action accusing the U.S. Court of Appeals for the telecommunications company of cutting off internet and phone service to its District of Columbia Circuit customers during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite signing a Federal U.S. Court of Appeals for the Communications Commission pledge not to do so. Second Circuit Complaint attached I Read full article U.S. Department of Justice U.S. Department of Labor PEOPLE U.S. Department of the Treasury Cipriani & Werner Adds Ex-Manhattan DA To Cyber Team U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Pittsburgh-based Cipriani & Werner continued its growth this year with the addition of a former Manhattan district attorney with over a decade of U.S. District Court for the Eastern experience working on a variety of enforcement and cybersecurity matters to District of New York its Philadelphia office, the firm announced Tuesday. U.S. District Court for the Southern Read full article » District of New York U.S. Securities and Exchange PRACTICAL GUIDANCE Commission U.S. Senate Structured Ch. 11 Dismissals Aren't Dead, Despite Jevic U.S. Supreme Court A New York bankruptcy court's recent approval of structured Chapter 11 dismissals in KG Winddown demonstrates that the rumored demise of such distributions hasn't come to pass, in part due to the U.S. Supreme Court's failure to address their legality in its 2017 opinion in Jevic, say Dan Prieto and Mark Douglas at Jones Day. Read full article » LEGAL INDUSTRY These 4 Law Firms Are The Most 'Fearsome' Four law firms were dubbed the most "fearsome" to face off against in court, according to a new report by BTI Consulting Group coming out Thursday. Read full article » Litigation Spending Outpaces Case Growth In US For the first time in nearly a decade, the amount of money being spent on litigation in the United States is outpacing the growth in cases, a new report shows. Read full article » Sussmann Seeks Clarity On 'Vague,"Confusing' Indictment Former Perkins Coie LLP partner Michael Sussmann asked a D.C. federal court on Wednesday to require the U.S. Department of Justice to provide more specificity to the "vague" and "confusing" indictment that accuses the cybersecurity expert of lying to the FBI in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. Read full article » BigLaw Wants 'Unicorn' In Ga. Mergers, Comes Up Short There's an appetite among large law firms to enter or grow in the Georgia legal market through a combination, but for many firms the perfect acquisition partner either doesn't exist or isn't interested, local legal recruiters say. EFTA00083562 Read full article » Koh Questioned Over COVID-19 Ruling At 9th Circ. Hearing U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh, one of President Joe Biden's nominees for the Ninth Circuit, defended herself against criticism from Republicans over her decision upholding California COVID-19 restrictions on indoor at-home religious gatherings when she testified before a Senate panel considering her nomination Wednesday. Read full article » Atty Tardiness Leads Court To Nix Quinn Emanuel Bias Suit The D.C. Circuit declined Wednesday to revive a fired associate's race and gender discrimination lawsuit against Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, scolding the attorney for repeatedly missing deadlines in her appeal and ignoring the court's warnings about her tardiness. Read full article » ABA To Attorneys: When In Doubt, Use A Translator If there is any uncertainty surrounding a client's ability to understand the case against them or their attorney's advice, that lawyer should err on the side of caution and hire a translator, an American Bar Association panel said in newly issued guidelines. Read full article » Montana Firm Challenges State's Employer Vax Mandate Ban A Montana-based law firm asked a state court on Tuesday to do away with the state's ban on employer vaccine mandates, claiming the measure runs afoul of Montana's constitution and places its employees at "increased risk to their health and safety." Read full article » JOBS Search full listings or advertise your job opening Not sure if your firm subscribes? Ask yam ibradan. We hope you found this message to be useful. However, if you'd rather not receive future emails of this sort. you may unsubscribe here. Please DO NOT reply to this email. 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