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September 14, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Carter Page described a Sept. 23, 2016, story published by Yahoo as "perhaps the most dangerous, reckless, irresponsible and historically-instrumental moments in modern-day sensational crime story journalism."

By B. Colby Hamilton

6 minute read

September 13, 2017 | New York Law Journal

U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet of the Southern District of New York granted Wells Fargo a stay Wednesday in the lead class action suit brought over unwanted car insurance it forced on hundreds of thousands of customers.

By B. Colby Hamilton

2 minute read

September 12, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Bad news for Bloomberg L.P. and its co-defendants in a libel suit: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit breathed new life back into the case Tuesday.

By B. Colby Hamilton

4 minute read

September 12, 2017 | New York Law Journal

New York's highest court declined Tuesday to review a lower court's denial of PriceWaterhouseCooper's accountant-client privilege claims to quash document production requests from Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office.

By B. Colby Hamilton

2 minute read

September 11, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Federal prosecutors announced fraud charges late Monday against the former head of Deutsche Bank's subprime trading unit, accusing him of knowingly selling $1.4 billion worth of real estate-backed securities backed by problematic loans.

By B. Colby Hamilton

5 minute read

September 11, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The former head of one of New York's more powerful correction officers' unions, Norman Seabrook, was denied dismissal of corruption charges against him and a co-defendant Monday by U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter Jr. of the Southern District of New York.

By B. Colby Hamilton

3 minute read

September 08, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A group of workers contracted by the Chinese government to work in the United States were unable to have a grand jury subpoena quashed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Sept. 8.

By B. Colby Hamilton

7 minute read

September 07, 2017 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Attorney General George Jepsen announced Wednesday that Connecticut is joining 14 other states and the District of Columbia in suing to invalidate President Donald Trump's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and to prohibit information gathered through the program to be used for immigration enforcement.

By Michael Marciano, Josefa Velasquez and B. Colby Hamilton

6 minute read

September 07, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Pakistan-based Habib Bank Ltd. and its New York branch have been fined $225 million by the state Department of Financial Services for allegedly failing to comply with anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism statues, the department said Thursday.

By B. Colby Hamilton

3 minute read

September 06, 2017 | New York Law Journal

New York's AG and 15 other states and D.C. filed a federal lawsuit in the Eastern District of New York alleging the Trump administration's undoing of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive action violates constitutional protections.

By Josefa Velasquez and B. Colby Hamilton

12 minute read