A small-firm litigator who argued his first case before the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year heard yesterday that the high court unanimously ruled in favor of his client, a federal prison inmate who alleges he was sexually assaulted by guards in a Lewisburg, Pa., prison. The client, Kim Millbrook, claimed he could sue the federal government under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
Christopher Paolella, a partner at four-attorney litigation firm Reich & Paolella, was picked by the high court to argue for Millbrook after the court, in a rare circumstance, agreed to hear the prisoner’s handwritten pro se petition (NYLJ, Feb. 20). Paolella is a former law clerk to Justice Samuel Alito.
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