The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that reckless criminal conduct doesn't qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act, a federal law that mandates longer sentences for firearms possession convictions if a person has previously been convicted of three violent crimes.
A federal judge in New Haven, Connecticut, has granted the state's bid to send back from federal to state court its lawsuit accusing oil major Exxon Mobil Corp of misleading the public over the impacts of its fossil fuels on climate change.
A Florida federal judge said Friday that investors hadn't shown any "severe recklessness" on the part of Carnival Corp. in connection with the cruise line's public statements about the risks posed by COVID-19 as the pandemic was breaking out.
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Women s Clothing Firm Breezes Through Ch. 11 Confirmation
Law360 (May 25, 2021, 5:11 PM EDT) The owner of women s clothing brands Joie and Equipment easily gained approval for its Chapter 11 plan reorganization Monday after telling a Delaware bankruptcy judge that it had resolved all opposition to its plan by providing new recoveries to junior creditors.
During a virtual hearing, The Collected Group attorney John Weber of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP said weeks of negotiations resulted in the fully consensual plan that garnered the support of the official committee of unsecured creditors after the plan was altered to provide them with recoveries that weren t originally included in the reorganization plan.
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Paul Weiss Attys To Guide Roe V. Wade Defense At High Court
Law360 (May 18, 2021, 10:10 PM EDT) Attorneys at Paul Weiss who have helped hundreds of fellow lawyers tell personal abortion stories at the U.S. Supreme Court now find themselves heading up the legal defense of Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision the justices are poised to reconsider.
New York-based partners Claudia Hammerman and Alexia D. Korberg, joined by multiple colleagues at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, are litigating alongside lead attorneys from the Center for Reproductive Rights against a Mississippi abortion law widely viewed as an intentional challenge to Roe that the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review.