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On Monday, Judge Arun Subramanian granted summary judgment to the New York City Board of Education (“Board”) in the latest iteration of its ongoing dispute with the U.S. Department of Education (“Department”) over federal grant funding for nineteen public magnet…
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In an opinion Tuesday, Judge Caproni preliminarily enjoined New York’s Attorney General from enforcing a new law that bars landlords from setting rents based on recommendations from algorithmic pricing software, finding that RealPage, which licenses such software, is likely to…
In an opinion Friday, Judge Subramanian denied toymaker Wham-O’s renewed motion for an ex parte temporary restraining order against a slate of anonymous online sellers marketing “Hula Hoop”-labeled products, holding for the second time that Wham-O hadn’t shown a likelihood…
In an opinion today, Magistrate Judge Stein concluded that a party’s obligation to produce documents held by an attorney or other agent can require threat of termination as leverage to get an uncooperative agent to hand them over.
The discovery…
On Tuesday, Judge Carter granted summary judgment to defendants Granite State Insurance Company and Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Company against plaintiff KM Tactical, LLC in an insurance coverage suit. KM Tactical had sued defendants for coverage or indemnification against government…