Jason Grant

August 31, 2022 | Law.com

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Curtis E.A. Karnow based his decision on California's litigation-privilege statute, calling the law "very broad" and writing that it bars "on its face" the DA offices' restitution and injunction-based case against Potter Handy.

By Jason Grant

6 minute read

August 30, 2022 | Law.com

The three-judge panel stated that "there is substantial evidence to support the district court's conclusion that the [Arkansas] Act prohibits medical treatment that conforms with the recognized standard of care. Even international bodies that consider hormone treatment for adolescents to be 'experimental' have not banned the care covered by Act 626."

By Jason Grant

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August 29, 2022 | New York Law Journal

"There are opportunities for a more holistic review of criminal practice and the criminal justice system through the post-COVID lens," said New York State Bar Association President Sherry Levin Wallach in announcing the 30-member task force.

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

August 26, 2022 | New York Law Journal

A former Baker McKenzie partner and senior counsel, who at one point oversaw the law firm's New York office, has been disbarred in New York state in a matter of reciprocal discipline from Washington, D.C., where he was accused of "reckless misappropriation" as counsel to and personal representative of an estate.

By Jason Grant

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August 24, 2022 | New York Law Journal

It appeared "the selection of a fairly junior judge on the court reflects disharmony among the judges on the court, because it is a real break with tradition, which is to chose the senior judge," said Albany Law School Professor Vincent Bonventre.

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

August 24, 2022 | Law.com

The officers "appear[] to conflate ambiguity about the facts in this case for purposes of whether there is a genuine issue of material fact ... with ambiguity from the officers' perspective about what the victim [the man arrested] was up to" as they gave him orders during the traffic stop and then arrested him after pinning him to the ground, wrote the majority panel.

By Jason Grant

6 minute read

August 23, 2022 | New York Law Journal

"This court would not tolerate a business owner proclaiming in the name of free speech or free expression that its business is open to whites only," wrote the bar association in a 23-page amicus brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court. "Nor should it tolerate a business owner communicating to the public that only one man and one woman may use its wedding services."

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

August 22, 2022 | New York Law Journal

"For some reason, the format never took hold in New York state, but the time has come for practitioners to embrace this common sense convention," said Jonathan Lupkin, a Commercial Division Advisory Council member and a nearly 30-year veteran of commercial-litigation practice.

By Jason Grant

6 minute read

August 19, 2022 | Law.com

The Seventh Circuit ruled that a Walmart distribution center had shown a "legitimate, nondiscriminatory justification" for offering lighter duty to employees injured on the job, but not to pregnant workers, since the injured-worker policy was tied to the state of Wisconsin's worker's compensation law.

By Jason Grant

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August 19, 2022 | New York Law Journal

The trustee of a daughter's bankruptcy estate on Tuesday was denied a motion to reinstate a fraud claim against the daughter's mother by a state appeals court that said the fraud claim had already been "adjudicated," even the lower court never decided that specific claim on the merits.

By Jason Grant

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