Mark Hamblett

March 30, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A lawyer for General Motors told a Southern District jury Tuesday that there were no injuries, no real auto damage and no liability for the carmaker in the case of Dionne Spain, who claimed a defective ignition switch caused her vehicle to shut off and crash on a New Orleans bridge in 2014.

By Mark Hamblett

9 minute read

March 30, 2016 | Law.com

A Southern District jury Wednesday declined to link what it found to be a defective ignition switch in a General Motors car to an accident on an icy New Orleans bridge.

By Mark Hamblett

8 minute read

March 29, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A former portfolio manager at Galleon Group whose testimony helped win the 2011 conviction of founder and insider trading scheme ringleader Raj Rajaratnam has failed in his attempt to have his guilty plea vacated because of shifting law at the Second Circuit.

By Mark Hamblett

12 minute read

March 28, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Intimate partner violence should have prevented a judge from awarding a man more than $283,000 in fees and costs in an international child custody dispute, a federal appeals court said Friday.

By Mark Hamblett

14 minute read

March 25, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Debt collectors must disclose in a collection notice that a consumer's current balance may increase due to interest and fees, a federal appeals court has ruled.

By Mark Hamblett

7 minute read

March 25, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Officials in an affluent Long Island village acquiesced to race-based opposition to affordable housing and changed zoning codes to discriminate against minorities, a federal appeals court held Wednesday.

By Mark Hamblett and Larry Neumeister

17 minute read

March 24, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Judge Shira Scheindlin, who found New York City police liable for unconstitutional stop-and-frisk tactics, presided over other high-profile cases and made groundbreaking decisions on e-discovery, is leaving the bench for private practice.

By Mark Hamblett

14 minute read

March 23, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Social Security disability advocates Binder & Binder's attempt to force the Social Security Administration to step in and pay attorney fees for clients who have gone bankrupt has been rejected by the Second Circuit in a decision that resolved a conflict within the district courts of the circuit.

By Mark Hamblett

9 minute read

March 23, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A dispute over the firing of a Culinary Institute of America employee who needed time off to care for her two sons has been revived by the Second Circuit.

By Mark Hamblett

9 minute read

March 18, 2016 | Law.com

Southern District Judge Katherine Polk Failla dismissed the suit of an HIV-positive, openly gay man who said he was persecuted at work by a boss who perceived he had AIDS, subjected him to ridicule and tried to force him out.

By Mark Hamblett

10 minute read