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Jane Wester

Jane Wester

Jane Wester is a litigation reporter for the New York Law Journal. Email her at [email protected] or find her on Twitter @janewester.

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June 17, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Judge Awards $48.6 Million to Frontier Airlines in COVID-19 Breach of Contract Suit

U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton held a bench trial in April to determine whether AMCK breached its contract with Frontier. Stanton noted that he had a specific focus on whether AMCK waived its right to timely payment during an April 2020 phone call between executives at the two companies.

By Jane Wester

3 minute read

June 14, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Investment Fund Sues Biopharma Company, Claiming $9 Million Unpaid in Contract Breach

An investment fund is seeking an order requiring Dendreon to perform its obligations under the agreement and pay the $9 million plus accrued interest, along with attorney fees and costs.

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3 minute read

June 12, 2024 | New York Law Journal

New Jersey US Attorney Philip Sellinger Takes Witness Stand in Menendez Trial

Sellinger recounted for jurors a conversation from 2020—when he was a partner at Greenberg Traurig—in which Menendez asked him how he might assess a then-pending investigation into a real estate developer were he to become New Jersey's U.S. Attorney.

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4 minute read

June 11, 2024 | New York Law Journal

'Did He Ask You to Pay a Bribe': Menendez's Lawyer Cross-Examines Key Cooperating Witness

Menendez's attorney Adam Fee of Paul Hastings worked to demonstrate to the jurors that while Uribe was close to Menendez's wife, Nadine Menendez, he did not have extensive interactions with the senator.

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4 minute read

June 10, 2024 | New York Law Journal

'A Bell That Cannot Be Unrung': Jeh Johnson Warns Against Threat of AI, Fake Info in Elections

Johnson, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and former Secretary of Homeland Security, said AI presented risks as the country is approaching an election likely to come down to a few precincts in a few states.

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3 minute read

June 07, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Former Allianz Global Investors Executive Pleads Guilty to Investment Adviser Fraud

Gregoire Tournant told Chief U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain of the Southern District of New York that he was involved in providing altered risk reports to investors between 2014 and 2020 and knew the investors would have wanted to know that the reports had been altered.

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2 minute read

June 06, 2024 | New York Law Journal

'Whoa, That Was Gross': Former NJ AG Gurbir Grewal Takes Stand at Menendez Trial

Gurbir Grewal, the former New Jersey attorney general who is now director of SEC enforcement, recalled outreach to him by U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez.

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5 minute read

June 05, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Partners in Westchester Accounting Firm Plead Guilty to Conspiracy to Defraud the IRS

Defendants were accused of scheming to conceal their clients' personal income and conceal wages paid to their clients' employees, reducing their payroll tax liability.

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June 04, 2024 | New York Law Journal

SDNY Judge Grants Skadden Client Coty Inc.'s Motion to Dismiss Shareholder Lawsuit

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom partners Scott Musoff, Lauren Aguiar and Paul Lockwood represent the defendants, Coty Inc., whose brands include Covergirl, Philosophy and Sally Hansen, and its board of directors.

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3 minute read

June 03, 2024 | New York Law Journal

SDNY US Attorney Names New Deputy, Executive Assistant US Attorneys

Edward Kim, who served as an assistant U.S. attorney from 2008 to 2017, rejoined the office in February after co-founding the litigation boutique now known as Krieger Lewin with two other alums of the SDNY.

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