New York

  • June 16, 2025

    Fall FARA Trial Set For Ex-NY Gov. Aide As New Charges Loom

    A Brooklyn federal judge on Monday set a fall trial date for a former top aide to two New York governors over allegations that she secretly acted as an agent of China's government in the U.S., while prosecutors intend to bring new charges within weeks.

  • June 16, 2025

    Unions Can't Sue Over Canceled Columbia Funds, Judge Says

    A New York federal judge on Monday dismissed two unions' challenge to the Trump administration's decision ending $400 million in funding to Columbia University, saying the unions cannot sue over funding that was never theirs.

  • June 16, 2025

    Ex-Fox News Host, Employee Agree To End Sex Assualt Case

    Former Fox News anchor Ed Henry has settled a lawsuit brought by a former producer who accused him of rape and sexual assault, according to a stipulation of dismissal filed in New York federal court on Monday.

  • June 16, 2025

    2nd Circ. Affirms That Ecuadoran Mother Failed Hardship Test

    The Second Circuit on Friday backed a Board of Immigration Appeals finding that an Ecuadoran woman failed to show how her removal would cause exceptional and extremely unusual harm to her U.S.-citizen children, saying the board committed no clear errors.

  • June 16, 2025

    Hemp Farm Says $3.9M Seizure Suit Wasn't Filed Too Late

    A California hemp farm is urging a Tennessee federal court not to throw out its suit as untimely against a Tennessee sheriff's office over $3.9 million in hemp flower the farm claimed was wrongly seized and then destroyed, saying it only learned that the hemp was illegally seized at a hearing for the hemp deliveryman months afterward.

  • June 16, 2025

    Fake NY Lawyer Admits To Stealing Over $290K From Clients

    A New York man admitted Monday that he posed as a lawyer to steal over $290,000 from people who thought he was doing class action, discrimination and other legal work, copping to larceny and fraud charges in state court.

  • June 16, 2025

    Mass. Judge Blocks NIH Grant Cuts, Points To 'Discrimination'

    A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday blocked the National Institutes of Health from cutting hundreds of grant programs to universities, hospitals and other organizations, saying that in his 40 years on the bench he had never seen such "palpable" racial and LGBTQ discrimination from the government.

  • June 16, 2025

    Proskauer Continues M&A Growth With Ex-Paul Weiss Atty

    Proskauer Rose LLP announced Monday that a former Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP counsel focused on private company mergers, take-private transactions and cross-border acquisitions has joined the firm as a partner.

  • June 16, 2025

    All 50 States Agree To Purdue Pharma's $7.4B Settlement

    Attorneys general from 55 U.S. states and territories on Monday backed Purdue Pharma's $7.4 billion deal to settle opioid injury claims against the company and the Sackler family, almost a year after the U.S. Supreme Court threw out Purdue's previous plan to end litigation over its role in the opioid epidemic.

  • June 16, 2025

    High Court Won't Revisit Landmark Religious Freedom Ruling

    The U.S. Supreme Court vacated and remanded a case from a Roman Catholic diocese in New York on Monday, bypassing for now the chance to overturn a landmark ruling that restricts First Amendment religious freedom challenges.

  • June 16, 2025

    High Court Skips Laches Question In Trademark Disputes

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up an appeal that asked if it is proper for courts to adopt state statutes of limitations in trademark disputes to determine whether a party took too long to sue.

  • June 16, 2025

    Justices Deny Challenge To Copyright's 'Discovery Rule'

    The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will not revisit the so-called discovery rule, rejecting an appeal from a shoe designer who argued the justices needed to clarify whether it's appropriate to bring copyright claims outside the three-year statute of limitations.

  • June 16, 2025

    Justices Won't Review Ed Sheeran's 'Thinking Out Loud' Win

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition to review a ruling finding that Ed Sheeran's hit song "Thinking Out Loud" did not rip off Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On."

  • June 13, 2025

    NY Supreme Court Bars ICE Office At Rikers, For Now

    A New York state court Friday blocked New York City Mayor Eric Adams from letting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement open up an office at Rikers Island, saying that there was a "real and imminent risk" immigrant communities would lose trust in the city's government institutions absent an injunction.

  • June 13, 2025

    Real Estate Recap: Builders' Hack, Korean Mezz, Hotel Angst

    Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including an inside look at California's Builder's Remedy, aggressive moves by South Korean mezzanine lenders, and why one BigLaw hospitality leader says hotels are "scared to death." 

  • June 13, 2025

    NY Judge Rejects 'Walkaway' Deal In Van Gogh IP Suit

    A New York federal judge has denied a proposed "walkaway" settlement in an intellectual property lawsuit brought against a Miami cafe named after Vincent van Gogh, after the suing company sought to confirm an agreement in principle was reached even though talks later stalled.

  • June 13, 2025

    Ex-Vinco Ventures Chair Inks SEC Deal Over Investor Fraud

    A former chairman of media and technology company Vinco Ventures Inc. who in April copped to lying about company operations and secretly ceding control of the business to his romantic partner has reached an agreement to end parallel U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations.

  • June 13, 2025

    Investor Seeks NY Court's Help In Sinovac Control Battle

    An investor is asking a New York federal court for emergency injunctions preserving the status quo as it pursues arbitration in Hong Kong and Beijing stemming from a bitter, yearslong battle for control of Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac.

  • June 13, 2025

    PwC Can't Get Sex Harassment Suit Kicked To Arbitration

    A New York federal judge declined to toss a former PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP principal's lawsuit alleging male colleagues berated her and took credit for her work before forcing her out, ruling a law curbing mandatory arbitration covered claims that she was mistreated because of her gender.

  • June 13, 2025

    SEC, Ripple Again Ask NY Judge To Approve Settlement

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Ripple Labs Inc. have again urged a New York federal judge to approve lower penalties against the blockchain company citing "exceptional circumstances," following the judge's previous rejection of the joint request on procedural grounds.

  • June 13, 2025

    MoneyGram Will Pay $250K To Finish Off CFPB, NY Suit

    MoneyGram has agreed to pay $250,000 to end a Biden-era remittance practice suit that was on its last legs after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau pulled out of the enforcement action earlier this year, leaving the New York attorney general as the sole plaintiff.

  • June 13, 2025

    Con Man Galanis Can't Get $2M Back, Despite Trump Clemency

    A New York federal judge denied convicted fraudster Jason Galanis' request to halt restitution payments and recover $2.17 million in forfeited assets, ruling that President Donald Trump's reduction of his sentence applied only to future obligations.

  • June 13, 2025

    Celsius Founder To Drop Ch. 11 Claims After Prison Sentence

    Claims asserted by Alexander Mashinsky, the founder of bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Networks, and his affiliated entities in the company's Chapter 11 case are being withdrawn and disallowed now that Mashinsky has been sentenced to prison.

  • June 13, 2025

    Ichor, Orthofix CEOs Face Suits Over 'Short-Swing' Gains

    The CEOs of semiconductor manufacturing company Ichor Holdings Inc. and orthopedic solutions company Orthofix Medical Inc. were hit with suits alleging they owe "short-swing" profits to their respective companies after buying and selling company stock within a six-month period.

  • June 13, 2025

    Pa. Home Care Agency Owner Gets Prison, $235K Restitution

    The New York-based owner of a Berks County, Pennsylvania, home care agency has been sentenced to spend a month in jail and repay $235,778 in fraudulently billed Medicaid claims, the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office announced Friday.

Expert Analysis

  • Service By Token Is Transforming Crypto Litigation Landscape

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    As the Trump administration advocates a new course of cryptocurrency regulation, courts in the U.S. and abroad are authorizing innovative methods of process service, including via nonfungible tokens and blockchain messaging, offering practical solutions for litigators grappling with the anonymity of cyber defendants, says Jose Ceide at Salazar Law.

  • Opinion

    SEC Shouldn't Complicate Broker-Dealers' AML Compliance

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    Recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission anti-money laundering enforcement actions show that regulators should not second-guess broker-dealers' reasonable judgment, or stretch the law or their jurisdiction to regulate through enforcement, lest they expect broker-dealers to vigorously defend their AML programs, say attorneys at WilmerHale.

  • Retirement Plan Suits Show Value Of Cybersecurity Policies

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    Several data breach class actions that were recently filed against retirement plan administrator The Pension Specialists in Illinois federal court are a reminder that developing and following a good written cybersecurity policy provides a blueprint for compliance and may prevent lawsuits, says Carol Buckmann at Cohen & Buckmann.

  • How Importers Can Minimize FCA Risks Of Tariff Mitigation

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    False Claims Act risks are inherent in many tariff mitigation strategies, making it important for importers to implement best practices to identify and report potential violations of import regulations before they escalate, says Samuel Finkelstein at LMD Trade Law.

  • State Securities Enforcers May Fill A Federal Enforcement Gap

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission appears poised to take a lighter touch under the new administration, but state enforcement efforts are likely to continue unabated, and potentially even increase, particularly with regard to digital assets and ESG disclosures, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

  • Firms Still Have Lateral Market Advantage, But Risks Persist

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    Partner and associate mobility data from the fourth quarter of 2024 shows that we’re in a new, stable era of lateral hiring where firms have the edge, but leaders should proceed cautiously, looking beyond expected revenue and compensation analyses for potential risks, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • Recent Cases Highlight Latest AI-Related Civil Litigation Risks

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    Ongoing lawsuits in federal district courts reveal potential risks that companies using artificial intelligence may face from civil litigants, including health insurance coverage cases involving contractual and equitable claims, and myriad cases concerning securities disclosure claims, say attorneys at Katten.

  • Opinion

    We Must Allow Judges To Use Their Independent Judgment

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    As two recent cases show, the ability of judges to access their independent judgment crucially enables courts to exercise the discretion needed to reach the right outcome based on the unique facts within the law, says John Siffert at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.

  • Preparing For Tariffs On Canadian Power In The Northeast

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    The on-again, off-again risk of import and export tariffs on energy transactions between the U.S. and Canada may have repercussions for U.S. energy stakeholders in the ISO New England and New York Independent System Operator electricity markets — but there are options that could help reduce cost impacts, say attorneys at Husch Blackwell.

  • Series

    Performing Stand-Up Comedy Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Whether I’m delivering a punchline on stage or a closing argument in court, balancing stand-up comedy performances and my legal career has demonstrated that the keys to success in both endeavors include reading the room, landing the right timing and making an impact, says attorney Rebecca Palmer.

  • Unpacking The Illicit E-Cigarette Crackdown By State AGs

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    A bipartisan coalition of attorneys general for nine states and the District of Columbia announced a coordinated effort to curb illicit electronic cigarette sales, illustrating the rising prominence of state attorneys general using consumer protection laws to address issues of national scope, especially when federal efforts prove ineffective, say attorneys at Troutman.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: From SEC To BigLaw

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    As I adjusted to the multifaceted workflow of a BigLaw firm after leaving the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, working side by side with new colleagues on complex matters proved the fastest way to build a deep rapport and demonstrate my value, says Jennifer Lee at Jenner & Block.

  • How Trump's Crypto Embrace Is Spurring Enforcement Reset

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent willingness to step away from ongoing enforcement investigations and actions underscores the changing regulatory landscape for crypto under the new administration, which now appears committed to working with stakeholders to develop a clearer regulatory framework, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Making The Case For Rest In The Legal Profession

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    For too long, a culture of overwork has plagued the legal profession, but research shows that attorneys need rest to perform optimally and sustainably, so legal organizations and individuals must implement strategies that allow for restoration, says Marissa Alert at MDA Wellness, Carol Ross-Burnett at CRB Global, and Denise Robinson at The Still Center.

  • Cross-Border Lessons In Using Hague Evidence Convention

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    Recent case law demonstrates that securing evidence located abroad requires a strategic approach, including utilization of the Hague Evidence Convention and preparation to justify your chosen evidence-gathering path, say attorneys at Fish & Richardson.

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