Jason Grant

January 27, 2021 | New York Law Journal

"We all know there's a risk that we are going to emerge from the pandemic with an even more consolidated economy, more concentrated, less competitive. That's because 100,000 American small businesses have already closed for good, with thousands more at risk," the Minnesota Democrat said. Klobuchar is expected to become the new chairwoman of the Senate's antitrust law subcommittee.

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

January 22, 2021 | New York Law Journal

"To find that the defendant's act amounted to a terroristic threat would trivialize the definition of terrorism by applying it loosely in situations that do not match our collective understanding of what constitutes a terrorist act," the Appellate Division, First Department said.

By Jason Grant

3 minute read

January 21, 2021 | New York Law Journal

It was challenging to "get a feel for [jurors], because not only are they 50 feet away from you, but they also had masks on," one lawyer said. Still, the judge and lawyers were largely complimentary of the trial and how it went.

By Jason Grant

6 minute read

January 20, 2021 | New York Law Journal

"Now before the court is Mr. Donziger's current request (to which the government does not object) to adjourn the trial date to May 10, 2021, some 643 days from Mr. Donziger's initial appearance and that same number of days since Mr. Donziger began his home confinement," wrote Manhattan federal court Judge Loretta Preska, who said she was "reluctantly" delaying the trial again.

By Jason Grant

9 minute read

January 19, 2021 | New York Law Journal

The NYPD had the "burden of showing a particularized justification for withholding the records … pursuant to the interference [with judicial proceedings] exemption" to the state Freedom of Information Law, wrote an Appellate Division, First Department panel. Its "blanket denial" of record and justifications fell short, the appeals panel wrote.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

January 15, 2021 | New York Law Journal

The Appellate Division, First Department has ruled that an affidavit submitted by the then-president of Bison Capital Corp. stating he had "expressly instructed" Hunton, in an underlying lawsuit in which the firm represented Bison, "to place liens on the judgment debtor's assets," sufficiently stated "a claim for breach of contract" when reviewing the motion to dismiss the complaint.

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

January 14, 2021 | New York Law Journal

"A political leader who uses his account to incite violence is causing harms that can't be countered by speech and can't be undone by a future election," said Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

January 11, 2021 | New York Law Journal

The suit, launched by an expelled Jewish member of the Harvard Club of New York City who claims that while attending a Palestinian-focused lecture there she was assaulted, battered and slandered, continues to produce a raft of filings and orders.

By Jason Grant

8 minute read

January 08, 2021 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The heart of what eventually became a sprawling trade-secrets case has centered on whether chemist Samet Dy and a company he founded, and various companies and defendants that hired him, misappropriated plaintiff Dur-A-Flex's proprietary formula for cement floor coating-product, Poly-Crete, after Dy left his employment with Dur-A-Flex.

By Jason Grant

8 minute read

January 04, 2021 | New York Law Journal

The facts stipulated to by lawyer Aaron Schlossberg and an attorney grievance committee, as set out in the opinion, painted a clear and detailed picture of what happened inside a busy Fresh Kitchen to-go-style restaurant on the afternoon of May 15, 2018.

By Jason Grant

7 minute read