Colby Hamilton

April 16, 2019 | New York Law Journal

The lawsuit, filed in Brooklyn state court, argues city officials are trampling on the religious liberties of the Orthodox Jewish communities placed under the mandatory vaccination order.

By Colby Hamilton

5 minute read

April 15, 2019 | New York Law Journal

The complaint claims that the managing director of a U.K.-based bioscience investment firm operated as an insider when he directed over $400,000 worth of sales in a biopharmaceutical company's securities in less than a six-month period.

By Colby Hamilton

3 minute read

April 15, 2019 | New York Law Journal

Droney was nominated to serve on the federal appellate bench by President Barack Obama in 2011, after serving for 14 years as a district court judge in Connecticut.

By Colby Hamilton

3 minute read

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.

By Colby Hamilton

4 minute read

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.

By Colby Hamilton

4 minute read

April 12, 2019 | Litigation Daily

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.

By Colby Hamilton

4 minute read

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.

By Colby Hamilton

2 minute read

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.

By Colby Hamilton

3 minute read

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.

By Colby Hamilton

3 minute read

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.

By Colby Hamilton

5 minute read