AP - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to step into two free speech cases, one involving a church that wants to place a religious monument in a park and the other on payroll deductions for labor union political activity.
AP - The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a lawsuit by Puerto Rico seeking FBI files in the killing of Puerto Rican independence supporter Filiberto Ojeda Rios.
AP - The Supreme Court on Monday stepped into a dispute between the state of Idaho and labor unions over payroll deductions for political activities.
AP - The Supreme Court has agreed to consider a free speech case in which a church wants to place a religious monument in a park.
AP - Delaware won a Supreme Court fight with New Jersey Monday, likely killing a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal on the Delaware River.
AP - The Supreme Court on Monday refused to step into a legal fight between the Justice Department and a member of Congress who has been indicted on bribery charges.
AP - The Supreme Court is meeting to issue opinions and announce whether it has accepted any new cases.
In a ruling of first impression, a Manhattan judge has scratched a request for punitive damages in a bedbug case. But the judge, Acting Supreme Court Justice Judith J. Gische, let go forward the negligence claims of two Maryland tourists for bites they sustained during a two-night stay at the Milford Plaza Hotel, and for which they’re seeking $2 million in compensatory damages. Gische found that the plaintiffs had failed “to raise a triable issue of fact whether bedbugs are anything more than a nuisance.”
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the nation’s largest public transportation system, has awarded Tishman Speyer Properties the right to develop the city’s West Side rail yards. Representing Tishman in the request for proposals process were Fried Frank partners Jonathan Mechanic and Stephen Lefkowitz, along with associates Molly Dunham and Daniel Benavides. Tishman’s winning offer of more than $1 billion trumped proposals from heavyweights Vornado Realty Trust and The Durst Organization.
Cooley Godward Kronish is forming a Latin America real estate group to work with clients seeking to invest in or develop real estate in the region, including the Caribbean. Thomas O’Connor, the firm’s current chair for the real estate practice, and Mark W. Lipschutz, of counsel at the firm and the chief executive of the real estate company Caribbean Property Group, will co-head the new team. Both lawyers are based in New York.