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11-05-2008
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Sonnenschein Achieves Victory for Lessee in New York Appellate Division
On October 21, Sonnenschein achieved a victory in the New York Appellate Division, First Department, for its client 40 East 80 Apartment Corp., the lessee under a 99-year ground lease. The dispute concerned the interpretation of the lease’s periodic rent adjustment clause. The Appellate Division upheld our client’s position that the rent adjustment clause did not permit consideration of air rights applicable to the adjoining parcel owned by the landlord even though the client’s apartment building actually utilized those adjacent air rights and notwithstanding the landlord’s argument that the air rights must be considered because they pertain to a single zoning lot under the New York City Zoning Resolution. This favorable decision will save the client many millions of dollars in rental payments over the remaining term of the ground lease. This case was handled by Marty Schwartz.
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10-10-2008
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Sonnenschein Argues Landmark Patient Referral Law Case to Maryland's Highest Court
On October 10, 2008, the Maryland Court of Appeals—the State's highest court—heard oral argument in a case being watched by medical practices as well as state and national medical associations across the country. In Potomac Valley Orthopaedic Association et al. v. Maryland State Board of Physicians et al., Sonnenschein appellate litigators represent 12 petitioner medical practices that are challenging the Maryland State Board of Physicians' declaratory ruling that prohibits non-radiology medical practices from providing their patients with in-office magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) services. Click here to read more about this case.
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09-19-2008
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Sonnenschein Represents Insurance Client Before the California Court of Appeals
In State of California v. Continental Insurance Company, et al., No. E041425 (Cal. Ct. App.), members of Sonnenschein's appellate subgroup, Paul Glad and Katie Evans, are representing an insurance company client in an appeal that could have important ramifications for insurance companies throughout the State of California.
Click here to read more about this appeal.
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09-19-2008
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Sonnenschein Represents ABA as Amicus Curiae In Title IX Case in U.S. Supreme Court
In one of the most important civil rights cases of the Supreme Court's coming Term, the American Bar Association called upon Sonnenschein attorneys to represent the ABA, as amicus curiae, to argue that Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 does not preclude claims under Section 1983 to vindicate rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Click here to read more about this important Supreme Court representation.
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09-10-2008
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Sonnenschein Forges New Standards in Bankruptcy Law in Key Win Before the Eighth Circuit
In PW Enterprises, Inc. v. North Dakota Racing Commission, ___ F.3d ___, 2008 WL 3981809 (8th Cir. Aug. 29, 2008), Sonnenschein appellate lawyers in the bankruptcy group, Robert Millner and Chris Prince, won an important victory in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case pending before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Click here to read more about this important Chapter 7 bankruptcy case win.
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08-22-2008
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Sonnenschein Successfully Represents Medis Technologies, Ltd. in Class Action Complaint
Sonnenschein attorneys Deborah Renner, Reid Ashinoff and Ben Delfin in New York, and Christopher King in Chicago, along with paralegal Patrice Ho Sang in New York, successfully represented Medis Technologies, Ltd. and other defendants in a securities fraud class action which alleged that Medis had made misleading statements concerning its portable power source product, a liquid fuel cell "Power Pack." Only one month after hearing argument on defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint for failure to plead scienter (i.e., an intent to deceive), Judge Paul Crotty of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted the defendants' motion in its entirety, without leave to replead, noting "there are very real evidentiary shortcomings undermining the allegations."
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08-05-2008
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Duane Quaini and Howard Rubin to Co-Chair Sonnenschein's Appellate Practice
Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal LLP has announced that Duane Quaini and Howard Rubin will co-chair the firm's Appellate Practice to complement Sonnenschein's litigation capabilities across various practice areas, including Insurance, Energy, Bankruptcy, Antitrust, Competition & Marketing Pricing and Internet, Communications & Data Protection. Our team of appellate litigators has briefed and argued more than 500 cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, federal appellate courts across the country, and state supreme courts and intermediate appellate courts.
Click here to read more about Sonnenschein's Appellate Practice.
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07-15-2008
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Sonnenschein Secures Major Victories for Insurance Industry in High Stakes Cases
Sonnenschein’s appellate expertise in the insurance arena has been on display in a series of cases in the Fifth Circuit during the last year. We highlight three of those cases here: Chehardy v. Allstate, et al. / Vanderbrook v. Unitrin, et al., In re Katrina, and State of Louisiana v. Allstate, et al.
Click here to read more about these appellate victories.
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07-15-2008
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Sonnenschein Appellate Team Files Amicus Curiae Briefs in Support of the Insurance Industry
Sonnenschein recently filed an amicus curiae brief in the California Supreme Court on behalf of the Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) in Delgado v. Interinsurance Exchange of the Automobile Club and on behalf of the Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC), the Personal Insurance Federation of California (PFIC), and the Pacific Association of Domestic Insurance Companies (PADIC) in Harris v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and Golden Eagle Insurance Corporation. Click here to read about these cases.
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06-19-2008
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Sonnenschein Honored with 2008 Chambers Award for Excellence in Insurance
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP has won the 2008 Chambers Award for Excellence in Insurance. The award recognizes our work in both the litigation and regulatory areas and further confirms our reputation as a world-class provider of legal services to insurance industry clients. The independent editorial board at Chambers & Partners selected Sonnenschein from among hundreds of insurance firms and a strong field of nominees.
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04-01-2008
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Newly Elected Partners to Help Us Meet Client Needs
To help meet our clients' demands for legal services in Corporate, Litigation, Real Estate and other practice areas, the firm has announced the election of 11 partners. All of these promotions are effective April 1, 2008.
Click here to view the newly promoted attorneys.
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01-25-2007
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Sonnenschein Opens Office in Silicon Valley
Sonnenschein opens an office in the Silicon Valley as part of the law firm's expansion in the technology sector. Partners in the new office, located in Menlo Park, Calif., will include Yar R. Chaikovsky, William W. Choe and Tarek N. Fahmi.
Click here to read the news release.
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