For decades, it has been assumed that Connecticut has two seats on the prestigious, 13-judge, federal appeals court with jurisdiction over New York, Connecticut and Vermont. How, lawyers wanted to know, did Connecticut get a third? More to the point, since Senators control the appointments, did New York’s influential senior U.S. Senator, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, give away a patronage plum?
Businesses and attorneys alike have kept a close eye on the developments surrounding the challenge to California Assembly Bill 51 (now codified as Labor Code section 432.6). Most.
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Seeger Weiss launches environmental practice with trailblazing litigator Matt Pawa, opening its first Massachusetts office
February 8, 2021 GMT
RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J., Feb. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Seeger Weiss LLP is proud to announce the launch of a new environmental practice group, to be headed by pioneering environmental litigator Matt Pawa and located in a new Boston-area office.
“Seeger Weiss is proud of the work we’ve done on important cases involving environmental harm such as representing the City of New York against the biggest contributors to the climate crisis and consumers defrauded by the Dieselgate scandal,” said cofounding partner Christopher A. Seeger. “Now, with Matt’s help, we expect to take this work to a new level. We’re excited to go after the companies who have profited by harming our environment.”
A great letter urging the USSC to think big in its future work
I had the great pleasure of receiving from one of my old bosses, Judge Jon O. Newman of the Second Circuit, a copy of a brief letter he sent a few months ago to USSC Chair Judge Ricardo Hinojosa. With permission, I have posted the letter below and here is the heart of its pitch:
I write to suggest that the Sentencing Commission begin in the very near future to plan for a major reconsideration of the Sentencing Guidelines to mark the 25th anniversary of the Guidelines, which will occur in 2012.