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Jul 3, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Brad Kutner
A subsidiary of global oil and gas company Lukoil is seeking over $18 million in damages after it claims a holding company for a prominent investment firm breached a joint-financing and operating agreement. Lukoil Pan Americas, represented by Baker McKenzie, filed the lawsuit on Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court. Want to continue reading?
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Linda Thompson |Brad Kutner |Sulaiman Abdur Rahman |Daryush Sabaghi |Avalon Zoppo
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit seemed skeptical Monday of its authority to rule on a lawsuit that alleges the Biden administration’s support of Israel’s war efforts in Gaza violates international laws barring genocide. Judge Jacqueline Nguyen questioned whether the claims, brought by several Palestinian rights groups, fail under the political questions doctrine.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Stephanie Wilkins |Brad Kutner |Daryush Sabaghi |Sulaiman Abdur Rahman |Avalon Zoppo
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit seemed skeptical Monday of its authority to rule on a lawsuit that alleges the Biden administration’s support of Israel’s war efforts in Gaza violates international laws barring genocide. Judge Jacqueline Nguyen questioned whether the claims, brought by several Palestinian rights groups, fail under the political questions doctrine.
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May 9, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Charles Toutant |Brad Kutner |Ellen Bardash
Circuit Judge Kent A. Jordan has announced he plans to retire in January 2025, opening a path for a Delawarean to flip the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals to a Democratic majority. According to the federal judiciary, Jordan gave notice of his plan to retire on May 7, and he plans to leave the bench on Jan. 15, days before a presidential inauguaration. With one other current vacancy on the court, the currently majority-Republican Third Circuit could flip.
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May 2, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Alaina Lancaster |Zack Needles |Brad Kutner |Alfred Olufemi
Two lawsuits seeking corporate accountability in the Middle East could, if successful, result in groundbreaking rulings against large corporations. In the first case, U.S. law firms have filed a class action suit on behalf of Lebanese depositors residing in the United States against Lebanon’s banking sector for alleged financial misconduct. Want to continue reading?
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Avalon Zoppo |Paul Hodkinson |Brad Kutner |Trudy Knockless
Sullivan & Cromwell won dismissal of a series of lawsuits hedge funds brought against Argentina seeking payment in a New York federal court for securities issued by the South American country. U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska of the Southern District of New York ruled that the hedge funds had not met conditions laid out in a “no-action clause” that would enable them to bring the suit. Want to continue reading?
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Adolfo Pesquera |Amy Guthrie |GREG ANDREWS |Brad Kutner
Baker McKenzie and its Brazilian arm, Trench, Rossi and Watanabe Advogados, are leading the National Football League in its first-ever regular season games to be played in Spain and South America. The teams of Spanish and Brazilian lawyers made a joint pitch to the NFL to advise on the league’s debuts in Madrid and São Paulo, and successfully secured what is a new client for the firm, Madrid-based partner David Díaz told Law.com International. Want to continue reading?
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Christine Schiffner |Steve Lash |Maydeen Merino |Brad Kutner
As Clifford Chance continues expanding its energy and infrastructure capabilities in the U.S., the firm has brought on Ty’Meka M. Reeves-Sobers and Marcia Hook as partners from Kirkland & Ellis, who will join the firm’s Houston and Washington, D.C., offices, respectively. Reeves-Sobers arrival comes just months after Clifford Chance launched its Houston office in June, marking the elite U.K. firm’s third U.S. office.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Adolfo Pesquera |Brad Kutner |Avalon Zoppo |Abigail Adcox
The Biden administration told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that a lower court order barring federal agents from cutting razor wire placed by Texas along the Rio Grande creates a “serious risk to human life.” The surge of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has led to a standoff between U.S. Border Patrol agents and Texas state officials, with vulnerable, undocumented families attempting to reach the United States caught in the middle. Want to continue reading?
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Jane Wester |Allison Dunn |Brad Kutner |Jimmy Hoover |Emily Cousins
Clarkson Law Firm filed a lawsuit against The Cooper Cos., headquartered in Connecticut and California, over allegations that contaminated embryo culture media were used in in vitro fertilization clinics, leading to nonviable embryos. The plaintiffs, known as A.B. and C.D. in the complaint, brought the action in California Superior Court against Connecticut business CooperSurgical Inc., California business The Cooper Cos.
