Mark Hamblett

September 16, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's plans to clarify the use of the word "natural" on food labels has hit the pause button on multidistrict litigation over KIND bars' claims that their products are "all-natural."

By Mark Hamblett

9 minute read

September 15, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The murder, rape and robbery conviction of a man who spent decades in prison was vacated Wednesday, bringing to a close an eight-year odyssey for attorneys at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton who took the case pro bono and saw it through two rounds of DNA testing and new law on reviewing convictions made by the New York Court of Appeals.

By Mark Hamblett

11 minute read

September 15, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Veteran federal prosecutor Diane Gujarati has been nominated to be New York's next Eastern District judge.

By Mark Hamblett

5 minute read

September 14, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A man who allegedly schemed to don traditional Muslim garb and use a fake explosive device to rob a Bronx check cashing store on the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks is now in federal custody.

By Mark Hamblett

5 minute read

September 13, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A civil rights attorney has been sanctioned for investigating the former police officer who shot and killed a 20-year-old Pace University student in 2010.

By Mark Hamblett

3 minute read

September 12, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Public-school students in East Ramapo lack standing to sue over the alleged siphoning off of public money to benefit private Hasidic schools, a federal appeals court held Monday.

By Mark Hamblett

10 minute read

September 09, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A man who registers and sells internet domain names and who tried to pitch a Donald Trump-related name for $400,000, has had his defamation suit against the Republican presidential nominee thrown out by a federal judge.

By Mark Hamblett

6 minute read

September 08, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The heroism of firefighters, police, and the EMTs who threw themselves into the catastrophe on Sept. 11, 2001, was the first sign of resiliency for the city as a whole and, in particular, Lower Manhattan, the seat of city government and home of New York's city, state and federal judicial systems.

By Mark Hamblett

9 minute read

September 02, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Time Warner has succeeded in beating back an antitrust allegation that it was illegally tying premium cable TV services to leases of interactive set-top call boxes.

By Mark Hamblett

9 minute read

September 01, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The lawyer for an accountant whose hard drives were seized and held for over two years in a fraud investigation involving a client, and then used to charge the accountant himself for an unrelated crime, is hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will take his case.

By Mark Hamblett

8 minute read