• Williams v. Affinion Group LLC

    Publication Date: 2018-05-25
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection | Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: E-Commerce | Retail
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Dennis Jacobs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellants: with Jamie E. Weiss, Grant Lee, on the brief, Jeffrey A. Leon, Quantum Legal LLC, Highland Park, Illinois; Laurie Rubinow, Shepherd, Finkelman, Miller & Shah, LLP, Chester, Connecticut; Nathan C. Zipperian, Shepherd, Finkelman, Miller & Shah, LLP, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellees: with Gregory T. Fouts, on the brief, Kenneth M. Kliebard, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Chicago, Illinois.

    Case Number: 16-3292-cv

    ECPA Inapplicable, RICO Claim Not Stated in Action Over Reward Program Enrollment

  • Hernandez v. Sessions

    Publication Date: 2018-03-07
    Practice Area: Immigration Law
    Industry: Federal Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Dennis Jacobs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Petitioner: with Kevin Meade and Melanie Conroy on the brief, Gregory Silbert, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY and Boston, MA; Anne Pilsbury and Heather Yvonne Axford, Central American Legal Assistance, Brooklyn, NY.
    for defendant: For Respondent: with Chad A. Readler, Acting Assistant Attorney General, and Ethan B. Kanter, Deputy Chief, on the brief, Jeffrey L. Menkin, Senior Counsel for National Security, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

    Case Number: 16-2323-ag

    INA's 'Material Support Bar' Lacks Implied Duress Exemption for Asylum Ineligibility

  • Soules v. State of Connecticut

    Publication Date: 2018-02-15
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Dennis Jacobs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant: William S. Palmieri, New Haven, Connecticut.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellee Town of Oxford: Dennis M. Durao, on the brief, James N. Tallberg, Karsten & Tallberg, LLC, Rocky Hill, Connecticut.; For George Jepsen, Attorney General of the State of Connecticut, for Defendants-Appellees State of Connecticut, Department of Emergency and Services and Public Protection, State of Connecticut: Ann E. Lynch, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief, Colleen B. Valentine, Assistant Attorney General, Hartford, Connecticut.

    Case Number: 17-52-cv

    2016 Suit's Dismissal as Res Judicata Upheld; Termination Claim was Raised in 2014 Action

  • U.S. v. Familetti

    Publication Date: 2017-12-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Dennis Jacobs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For the United States of America: with Patrick Egan, Karl Metzner, on the brief, Jessica K. Fender, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District, New York, New York.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellant: Jerald Brainin, Esq., Los Angeles, California.

    Case Number: 16-2334-pr

    Although Agent's Cooperation Request Would be Interrogation, Defendant Was Not in Custody

  • Wang v. The Hearst Corp.

    Publication Date: 2017-12-15
    Practice Area: Wage and Hour Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Dennis Jacobs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellants: Juno Turner, on the brief, Rachel Bien, Outten & Golden LLP, New York, New York.
    for defendant: For amici curaie American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO; Economic Policy Institute; Intern Worker Alliance; National Employment Lawyers Association; National Employment Law Project; Service Employees International Union; United Food and Commercial Workers International Union; Writers Guild of America, East, AFL-CIO; Professor Scott Moss; Ross Perlin; and Professor David C. Yamada, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants: Rachel Geman, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, New York, New York.; For Defendant-Appellee: Eve Burton, Jonathan R. Donnellan, Kristina E. Findikyan, Jennifer D. Bishop, Hearst Corporation, New York, New York, office.

    Case Number: 16-3302

    'Glatt' Factors Favored Finding Wage Claimants Interns, Not Employees Under FLSA