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US v. Cortes-Caban

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Convictions of several police officers on charges of conspiring to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate persons in the free exercise or enjoyment...

Rodriguez v. Disner

Attorney's Fees, Class Actions, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Professional Malpractice
In a consolidated appeal brought by class counsel and six groups of objectors, challenging the district court's decisions regarding attorney fee...

Worthington v. Davi

Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Property Law & Real Estate
In plaintiffs' petition for an order directing payment out of the Department of Real Estate Recovery Account for an unsatisfied judgment in an...

Post v. St. Paul Travelers Ins. Co.

Contracts, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Insurance Law, Legal Malpractice
In an attorney's suit against his legal malpractice insurer claiming, inter alia, insurance bad faith and breach of contract, the district court's...

Wallace v. Kmart Corp.

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Judges & Judiciary, Sanctions
District court's judgment holding an attorney in contempt for failing to comply with a subpoena as part of discovery in the motion filed by the...

Haynes v. City and County of San Francisco

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Sanctions
District court's imposition of sanctions on the plaintiff's counsel of over $360,000, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. section 1927, after determining that the...

Baba-Ali v. New York

Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Remedies
In a plaintiff's suit against the State of New York to recover for unjust conviction and imprisonment under section 8-b of the Court of Claims Act...

In the Matter of the Honorable Lafayette D. Young, Jr.

Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Judges & Judiciary, Legal Malpractice
The State Commission on Judicial Conduct's decision sustaining six charges of misconduct against a judge and determination that he should be removed...

In the Matter of Smith v. Hon. Tormey

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Judges & Judiciary, Administrative Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
An Administrative Judge (AJ) does not have authority pursuant to 22 NYCRR section 127.2 (b) to considering an order of a trial court assigning an...

Altman v. US Securities and Exchange Commission

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Remedies, Securities Law
In an appeal of a debarment order brought by an attorney admitted to practice in New York, seeking injunctive relief in the form of an order staying...