DOCSLIB.ORG

Spring 2011 Address Service Requested BLS BLS Lawnotes Spring Spring 2011

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Spring 2011 Address Service Requested BLS BLS Lawnotes Spring Spring 2011 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201 LawNotesThe Magazine of Brooklyn Law School | Spring 2011 address service requested BLS BLS LawNotes Spring 2011 Upcoming Events JUNE 6 COMMENCEMENT AUGUST 24 FALL SEMESTER CLASSES BEGIN speaker: Judge Thomas Buergenthal, International Court of Justice in The Hague (ret.) OCTOBER 6 BELFER LECTURE Avery Fisher Hall speaker: Commissioner Alan Bersin, US Customs and Border Protection JUNE 9 RECENT GRADUATE COCKTAIL PARTY Little Cheese Pub, Manhattan OCTOBER 21 SYMPOSIUM “Globalization of the United States JULY 10 ON THE ROAD: SEATTLE Litigation Model” Fairmont Olympic Hotel Sponsored by the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law and the Brooklyn Journal of International Law JULY 24 HAMPTONS SUMMER COCKTAIL RECEPTION Home of Stacy Kanter ’84 and Eric Kornblau ’84 NOVEMBER 11 SYMPOSIUM “Crawford and Beyond III: AUGUST 15 CONVOCATION Confrontation Clause Limitations on A World of Opportunity Hearsay Evidence, Differing Perspectives Sponsored by the Journal of Law and Policy BLS Fellows Work around the Globe, Gaining Enriching International Experience For more information about events and dates, please visit our Web site at www.brooklaw.edu/NewsAndEvents. 1 • BLSLawNotes | Spring 2011 BLSLawNotes Vol. 16, No. 1 Editor-in-Chief Graphic Design Linda S. Harvey Ron Hester Design WE WANT YOU!!! Assistant Dean for External Affairs Photographers Managing Editor Damion Edwards Andrea Strong ’94 Matilda Garrido Ron Hester Contributors Alan Perlman …to hire Diana Barnes-Brown Joe Vericker Bethany Blankley Daniel J. Goodstadt ’10 Printer our students! Tina Herrera Finlay Printing Alison Holstein ’12 Ivy Miller BLS LawNotes is published Rachel Rehwinkel ’07 semi-annually by Stephanie Staal ’10 Brooklyn Law School Andrea Strong ’94 for alumni, students, faculty and friends. At Brooklyn Law School, we are very fortunate to have a loyal family of alumni ClassNotes Editor who list job opportunities with us, and who are very generous in offering advice Caitlin Monck-Marcellino ’02 Letters and Comments to our students and graduates. Many of our bright and talented students Director of Alumni Relations We welcome letters and comments about articles in BLS LawNotes from and recent (and not so recent) graduates are looking for work. Faculty Highlights Editor our graduates and friends. We will Contact the Career Center if you have job listings such as: Bethany Blankley consider reprinting brief submissions Associate Director of Communications in LawNotes and on our Web site. Summer or part-time internships for students Photo Editor mailing address: Entry-level positions for recent graduates Matilda Garrido Managing Editor Lateral positions for more experienced graduates BLS LawNotes 250 Joralemon Street Project-based/contract positions Brooklyn, New York 11201 Quasi-legal positions (compliance/risk management, human resources, contract administration or claims analysis) fax: 718-625-5242 e-mail: [email protected] Non-traditional practice web: www.brooklaw.edu If you are experiencing your own job search issues, the Career Center is staffed with seven attorney-counselors and employer relations associates who are available to assist you. To post immediate openings, please go to www.brooklaw.edu/careers where you will find several listing options. For assistance with your listing, call 718.780.7963 or e-mail [email protected]. we are pleased to report that Brooklyn Law School’s publication, You can make a difference. BLS LawNotes, is the winner of the Bronze prize for external publications from the THANK YOU! 26th Annual Educational Advertising Awards. Our newly-designed Web site, www.brooklaw.edu, is the winner of the Silver prize. Contents FEATURES A World of Opportunity By Andrea Strong ’94 and Bethany Blankley 20 Every summer, a growing number of BLS students are funded through a variety of international fellowships to work abroad. Whether crusading for the environment in China, combating human trafficking in Thailand, representing asylum seekers before the UNHCR in Hong Kong, or prosecuting genocidaires in Tanzania, the nine fellows profiled in this piece had the opportunity to perform what many would consider the legal work of a lifetime. An Era of Transformation: Strategic Leadership Fosters Exceptional Growth 28 Over the course of former Dean Joan G. Wexler’s 16-year deanship, the Law School achieved new heights in every key area of its development. This feature shines a light on Wexler’s leadership and vision and celebrates her significant accomplishments, including recruiting top students, attracting quality faculty, and developing a strong and thriving endowment. Lasting Legislation: Banishing the Temporary Tax Code By Professor Rebecca Kysar 30 This insightful piece by Professor Rebecca Kysar explores the rampant use of sunset provisions in tax legislation which have effectively removed the certainty from the tax code and transformed it into a temporary body of statutes with devastating effects. For nearly all tax law, she proposes a policy presumption against temporary legislation and argues in favor of legislation that does not expire by its own terms, which she calls “lasting legislation.” DEPARTMENTS The Dean’s Message 2 Law School Briefs 3 Faculty Highlights 36 Alumni Update 48 In Memoriam 64 the dean’s message pring has arrived, Brooklyn is in bloom, and on June 6th we held our 110th Commencement ceremony. Judge Thomas Buergenthal, a Holocaust sur- vivor who served as a judge of the International Court of Justice from 2000–2010,S was our commencement speaker and the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Our cover feature, “A World of Opportunity,” adds special meaning to Judge Buergenthal’s presence at Commencement. This article focuses on the many BLS students who, with the support of the Law School’s international fellow- ships, are working all over the world. These students have had what many of us would consider the experience of a lifetime, by, for example, working on environmental issues in China, prosecuting Rwandan genocidaires in Tanzania, and representing refugees in Hong Kong. In our second feature, we chronicle the achievements of Joan G. Wexler, who led the Law School as Dean for 16 years before becoming its President. Joan’s imprint is indelible and deep and we try to do it justice here. In an article by one of the newest additions to our tax faculty, Professor Rebecca Kysar explores the use of sunset provisions in tax legislation. In an adaptation of her article that was recently published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, she contends that temporary tax laws increase interest group activity; prevent a future Congress from pursuing its own agenda; and produce planning conundrums for public and private actors alike. Accordingly, she advances a policy presumption against temporary legislation and argues in favor of “lasting legislation,” by which she means legislation that does not expire by its own terms. Also in this issue we highlight just some of the many accomplishments of our outstanding students, introduce our new Military Legal Practice Clinic, and turn the spotlight on faculty members who have been consulted by the media on cutting-edge legal issues. We also remember two members of the BLS family who recently left us: former Dean David G. Trager and Professor Margaret A. Berger. We also highlight the career of Professor Will Hellerstein, who retired after 25 years of teaching. Finally, in our Class Notes section, we highlight four remarkable alumni: Charles Ortner ’71, co-head of the Entertainment Industry Group at Proskauer Rose, and a newly appointed member of the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees; Harriet Cohen ’74, one of New York City’s most prominent matrimonial law- yers; Matthew Swaya ’81, the new Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer of Starbucks; and Julie Kay ’95, a human rights pioneer, who argued the European Court of Human Rights case that forced Ireland to rewrite its centuries-old abortion law. We hope you enjoy keeping up with the news and accomplishments of your extended BLS family, and we wish you a happy and healthy summer. Michael A. Gerber Interim Dean 2 • BLSLawNotes | Spring 2011 Stanley M. Grossman ’67 Geraldo Rivera ’69 Pomerantz Haudek Grossman FOX News Channel & Gross LLP Gary M. Rosenberg ’74 Allen J. Grubman ’67 Rosenberg & Estis PC Grubman, Indursky & Shire, PC Brooklyn Law School is pleased to announce Joseph J. Rosenberg ’63 Noah J. Hanft ’76 Global Student Loan the formation of the President’s Advisory Council. MasterCard Worldwide Corporation The Council brings together a very select group Ellen Taubenblatt Harmon ’79 Marian P. Rosner ’73 of graduates and friends of the Law School who ATMI Wolf Popper, LLP are distinguished lawyers and business leaders. The Council’s role will be to provide advice and Dave S. Hattem ’81 George H. Ross ’53 AXA Equitable Life Insurance The Trump Organization counsel to the President, Dean, and other senior Company administrators on significant issues. Howard J. Rothman ’71 Scott L. Hazan ’73 Kramer Levin Naftalis “I am excited about the creation of the President’s Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston & Frankel LLP & Rosen PC Advisory Council,” said President Joan G. Wexler. Kenneth L. Shapiro ’61 “The benefit of having the counsel of such creative Howard S. Hershenhorn ’89 Wilson Elser Moskowitz Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman, Edelman & Dicker LLP and successful individuals is invaluable.” Mackauf, Bloom & Rubinowitz Gerald L. Shargel ’69 Lawrence A. (Lon) Jacobs ’81 The Law Office of MEMBERS (in formation) News Corporation Gerald L. Shargel Jodi L. Avergun ’87 Bruce E. Fader ’74 Stacy J. Kanter ’84 Douglas Sharrott ’94 Cadwalader, Wickersham Proskauer Rose LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Taft LLP Howard S. Finkelstein ’59 & Flom LLP & Scinto Dennis J. Block ’67 Finkelstein & Partners LLP Caleb D. Koeppel ’81 Jeffrey S. Sherman ’80 Cadwalader, Wickersham Bantam Holdings LLC Becton, Dickinson and Company & Taft LLP Edmond T. FitzGerald ’91 Davis Polk & Wardell LLP Steven H. Kram Lowell J. Sidney ’04 John P.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • DEAN & DELUCA NEW YORK, INC., Et Al., Debtors. 1
    20-10916-mew Doc 315 Filed 09/17/20 Entered 09/17/20 17:14:41 Main Document Pg 1 of 16 UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK : In re: : Chapter 11 : DEAN & DELUCA NEW YORK, INC., et al., : Case No. 20-10916 (MEW) : Debtors. 1 : Jointly Administered : : : SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION OF MARK LEONARDO IN SUPPORT OF DEBTORS’ APPLICATION FOR ENTRY OF AN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE EMPLOYMENT AND RETENTION OF NUTTER MCCLENNAN & FISH LLP AS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COUNSEL TO THE DEBTORS I, Mark Leonardo, being duly sworn, state the following under penalty of perjury. 1. I am a partner in the law firm of Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP (“NM&F”), which maintains offices for the practice of law at 155 Seaport Blvd., Boston, Massachusetts, as well as in Hyannis, and am duly admitted to practice law in Massachusetts. 2. This Supplemental Declaration is provided as a supplement to Exhibit B of the Debtors’ Application For Entry Of An Order Authorizing The Employment And Retention Of Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP As Intellectual Property Counsel To The Debtors, ECF No. 167 (the “Initial Declaration”). 1 The Debtors in the Chapter 11 Cases and the last four digits of each Debtor's taxpayer identification number are as follows: Dean & Deluca New York, Inc. (3111); Dean & Deluca, Inc. (2998); Dean & Deluca Brands, Inc. (2878); Dean & Deluca International, LLC (8995); Dean & Deluca Small Format, LLC (1806); Dean & Deluca Atlanta, LLC (6678); Dean & Deluca Markets, LLC (2674). The registered address for the Debtors is 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, Delaware 19808. 20-10916-mew Doc 315 Filed 09/17/20 Entered 09/17/20 17:14:41 Main Document Pg 2 of 16 I.
    [Show full text]
  • Supp Deutch Declaration
    20-11684-dsj Doc 220 Filed 04/22/21 Entered 04/22/21 09:55:32 Main Document Pg 1 of 15 UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ) In re: ) Chapter 11 ) OLD OB, LLC1 ) Case No. 20-11684 (SMB) ) Debtor. ) ) SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION OF PAUL H. DEUTCH IN SUPPORT OF DEBTOR’S APPLICATION FOR AN ORDER AUTHORIZING EMPLOYMENT AND RETENTION OF OMNI AGENT SOLUTIONS AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT EFFECTIVE AS OF AUGUST 24, 2020 I, Paul H. Deutch, under penalty of perjury, declare as follows: 1. I am the Executive Vice President of Omni Agent Solutions, Inc. (“Omni”). Except as otherwise noted, I have personal knowledge of the matters set forth herein and, if called and sworn as a witness, I could and would testify competently thereto. I submit this supplemental declaration (the “Supplemental Declaration”) on behalf of Omni in support of the application 2 [Docket No. 204] (the “Section 327 Application”), of the Debtor for an order appointing Omni as administrative agent for the Debtor effective as of August 24, 2020 filed in the above-captioned bankruptcy case (the “Bankruptcy Case”). Except as otherwise indicated herein, I have personal knowledge of the matters set forth herein and, if called as a witness, would testify competently thereto. 2. The facts set forth below are based either upon my personal knowledge, discussions with other employees of Omni, or review of the client/matter records of Omni by me or by other employees of Omni. 1 The last four digits of the Debtor’s federal tax identification number is 3434.
    [Show full text]
  • March 18, 2020 Alison J. Nathan, United States District Judge
    Revised: March 18, 2020 EMERGENCY INDIVIDUAL RULES AND PRACTICES IN LIGHT OF COVID-19 Alison J. Nathan, United States District Judge Chambers Email: [email protected] Unless otherwise ordered by the Court, these Emergency Individual Rules and Practices apply to all matters before Judge Nathan (whether criminal or civil and whether involving a pro se party or all counseled parties), and they are a supplement to Judge Nathan’s standard Individual Rules and Practices. If there is a conflict between these Rules and Judge Nathan’s standard Individual Rules and Practices, these Rules control. 1. No Paper Submissions Absent Undue Hardship A. No papers, including courtesy hard copies of any filing or document, may be submitted to Chambers. All documents must be filed on ECF or, if permitted or required under the Court’s Individual Rules and Practices, emailed to [email protected]. B. In the event that a party or counsel is unable to submit a document electronically — either by ECF or email — the document may be mailed to the Court. To the maximum extent possible, however, this means of delivery should be avoided, as delivery of mail to the Court is likely to be delayed. 2. Conferences and Proceedings A. In Civil Cases. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court, all conferences and proceedings in civil cases will be held by telephone. In some cases, the Court may direct one of the parties to set up a conference line. In all other cases, the parties should call into the Court’s dedicated conference line at (888) 363-4749, and enter Access Code 919-6964, followed by the pound (#) key.
    [Show full text]
  • Members by Circuit (As of January 3, 2017)
    Federal Judges Association - Members by Circuit (as of January 3, 2017) 1st Circuit United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Bruce M. Selya Jeffrey R. Howard Kermit Victor Lipez Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson Sandra L. Lynch United States District Court District of Maine D. Brock Hornby George Z. Singal John A. Woodcock, Jr. Jon David LeVy Nancy Torresen United States District Court District of Massachusetts Allison Dale Burroughs Denise Jefferson Casper Douglas P. Woodlock F. Dennis Saylor George A. O'Toole, Jr. Indira Talwani Leo T. Sorokin Mark G. Mastroianni Mark L. Wolf Michael A. Ponsor Patti B. Saris Richard G. Stearns Timothy S. Hillman William G. Young United States District Court District of New Hampshire Joseph A. DiClerico, Jr. Joseph N. LaPlante Landya B. McCafferty Paul J. Barbadoro SteVen J. McAuliffe United States District Court District of Puerto Rico Daniel R. Dominguez Francisco Augusto Besosa Gustavo A. Gelpi, Jr. Jay A. Garcia-Gregory Juan M. Perez-Gimenez Pedro A. Delgado Hernandez United States District Court District of Rhode Island Ernest C. Torres John J. McConnell, Jr. Mary M. Lisi William E. Smith 2nd Circuit United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Barrington D. Parker, Jr. Christopher F. Droney Dennis Jacobs Denny Chin Gerard E. Lynch Guido Calabresi John Walker, Jr. Jon O. Newman Jose A. Cabranes Peter W. Hall Pierre N. LeVal Raymond J. Lohier, Jr. Reena Raggi Robert A. Katzmann Robert D. Sack United States District Court District of Connecticut Alan H. NeVas, Sr. Alfred V. Covello Alvin W. Thompson Dominic J. Squatrito Ellen B.
    [Show full text]
  • (“ERISA”) Decisions As They Were Reported on Westlaw Between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2016
    DRAFT * This document is a case summary compilation of select Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) decisions as they were reported on Westlaw between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2016. Nothing in this document constitutes legal advice. Case summaries prepared by Michelle L. Roberts, Partner, Roberts Bartolic LLP, 1050 Marina Village Parkway, Suite 105, Alameda, CA 94501. © Roberts Bartolic LLP I. Attorneys’ Fees .................................................................................................................. 11 A. First Circuit ..................................................................................................................................... 11 B. Second Circuit ................................................................................................................................. 11 C. Third Circuit .................................................................................................................................... 14 D. Fourth Circuit .................................................................................................................................. 14 E. Fifth Circuit ..................................................................................................................................... 15 F. Sixth Circuit .................................................................................................................................... 16 G. Seventh Circuit ...............................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • September(27+29,(2013( Hon
    Jus4ces(and( Judges( Women&Transforming&Our& Communi1es&and&the&World& September(27+29,(2013( Hon. Ruth I. Abrams Class of 1956 “… it was clear one judge didn’t want me in the courtroom [even though I was the Assistant DA in Middlesex County]. He said I could not be in the courtroom without a hat and white gloves. The white hat and gloves were an excuse. Do you know how dirty the old Middlesex County courthouse was?” Honorable Ruth I. Abrams (Ret.) Justice, First Female Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Harvard Law School Class of 1956 Radcliffe College (A.B., 1953) Hon. Cynthia G. Aaron '84 Hon. Sharon V. Burrell '82 Hon. Mary Grace Diehl '77 Hon. Justice Arden '70 Hon. Zoe A. Bush '79 Hon. Raya S. Dreben '54 Hon. Christine M. Arguello '80 Hon. V. Buthelezi-Khampepe '82 Hon. Fernande R. V. Duffly '78 Hon. Deborah A. Batts '72 Hon. Diane O. Campbell '76 Hon. Antoinette L. Dupont '54 Hon. Carol Berkman '67 Hon. Yvonne E. Campos '88 Hon. Jacquelyn P. Eckert '94 Hon. Marie-France Bich '80 Hon. Susan L. Carney '77 Hon. Maryanne E. Elliott '90 Hon. Cathy Bissoon '93 Hon. Denise Jefferson Casper '94 Hon. Christine C. Ewell '86 Hon. Catherine C. Blake '75 Hon. Shelley C. Chapman '81 Hon. Gail Ruderman Feuer '84 Hon. Karen J. Brandt '79 Hon. Dorothy Chin-Brandt '75 Hon. Dale S. Fischer '80 Hon. F. S. Brenneman '53 Hon. Cynthia J. Cohen '75 Hon. Fern Fisher '78 Hon. Eileen M. Brewer '87 Hon. Laura A. Cordero '88 Hon.
    [Show full text]
  • Brooklyn Law Notes Law Brooklyn the Passion of Pips Pips of Passion The
    Brooklyn Law Notes THE MAGAZINE OF BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL | FALL 2016 Brooklyn Law Notes FALL 2016 The Passion of PipS Race, Technology, and New Faculty Build Fellows at Work the Future of Policing on Excellence Brooklyn Law Notes Dean’s Message Vol. 21, No. 2 We the People Editor-in-Chief Clorinda Valenti Director of Communications Managing Editor Kaitlin Ugolik Class Notes Editor Andrea Polci Associate Director of Alumni Relations Faculty Notes Editor John Mackin Public Relations Manager Contributors Dominick DeGaetano Jesse Sherwood Andrea Strong Peggy Swisher Art Director Ron Hester Photographers Todd France Ron Hester Will O’Hare Peter Tannenbaum Joe Vericker Printer Allied Printing Contact us n a beautiful sun-splashed September day in We welcome letters and comments about Washington, D.C., it was an exquisitely memorable articles in Brooklyn Law Notes. We will experience to be part of the large crowd celebrat- consider reprinting brief submissions ing the opening of the new Smithsonian National in print issues and on our website. OMuseum of African American History and Culture. Words alone tel: 718-780-7966 cannot capture the museum’s full impact, from the metal lattice e mail: [email protected] exterior walls that recall iconic figures once serving as symbolic Web: brooklaw.edu guardians protecting African villages, to the large welcoming m ailing address front porch and the exhibition halls filled with artifacts, art, and Managing Editor Brooklyn Law Notes displays that are vibrant, moving, and often painful and horri- 250 Joralemon Street fying reminders of the struggles, as well as contributions and Brooklyn, New York 11201 triumphs, of African Americans.
    [Show full text]
  • 1 Roberta S. Karmel Current
    ROBERTA S. KARMEL CURRENT EMPLOYMENT: Centennial Professor of Law and Co-Director Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law Brooklyn Law School 250 Joralemon Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 E-Mail: [email protected] Tel:718-780-7946 Teaching: Corporations; European Union Law; Securities Regulation; Investment Management; Regulation of Financial Intermediaries and Markets; Seminars on International Financial and Securities Regulation PRIOR EMPLOYMENT: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP Partner 1987-94 Of Counsel 1995-2002 New York City Partner, Rogers & Wells 1972-77; 1980-85 Of Counsel, Rogers & Wells 1985-86 New York City Chairman of Financial Services Department 1983-85 Executive Committee 1983-85 Commissioner Securities and Exchange Commission 1977-80 Washington, D.C. Associate, Willkie Farr & Gallagher 1969-72 New York City Securities and Exchange Commission 1962-69 New York Regional Office Assistant Regional Administrator Attorney Branch Chief Attorney 1 HONORS: Phi Beta Kappa Alpha Iota of Massachusetts at Harvard College (Hon.) 2009 American Bar Association Women Lawyers of Achievement Award 2008 N.Y.U. School of Law Alumni Association Legal Teaching Award 2002 Honorary Doctorate of Humanities, Kings College 1998 Fulbright Scholar, U.S.-E.C. Exchange Program 1991-92 1978 Recipient of “The Woman of the Year Award” in the New Business Leadership Category presented by the Ladies Home Journal. OTHER AND PRIOR ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: Harry Cross Visiting Professor University of Washington School of Law Winter Quarter 2009 Faculty Member Loyola Law School (L.A.), Brooklyn Law School Summer Program in Beijing, China July 2004 Visiting Professorial Fellow Centre for Commercial Law Studies Queen Mary & Westfield College University of London 1999-2002 Faculty Member and U.S.
    [Show full text]
  • Women of the Mother Court Jadranka Jakovcic
    62 • THE FEDERAL LAWYER • August 2018 WOMEN OF THE MOTHER COURT JADRANKA JAKOVCIC he U.S. District Court for the Southern also remembered for having drafted the original complaint in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education.4 She was District of New York (SDNY), colloquially the first African-American woman ever to argue a case before the known as the “Mother Court,” is the U.S. Supreme Court and was successful in nine of the 10 cases she oldest federal court in the United States. argued before it.5 TCreated by President George Washington through Another of the Mother Court’s proud history of judicial firsts was the appointment of Hon. Sonia Sotomayor as its first Hispanic the Judiciary Act of 1789, it was the first court to woman. While serving on the federal bench, she has gained fame as sit under the new U.S. Constitution, preceding the the judge who “saved” Major League Baseball with her strike-ending U.S. Supreme Court by several weeks.1 decision in Silverman v. Major League Baseball Player Relations Committee Inc.,6 which evidenced the qualities of thought and In the words of Hon. Charles Evans Hughes, former chief justice diligence she would later bring to the U.S. Supreme Court. Appoint- of the United States, “the courts are what the judges make them, and ed by President Barack Obama in 2009, Justice Sotomayor is also the district court in New York, from the time of James Duane, Wash- the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the U.S.
    [Show full text]
  • ORDER: the Clerk of Court Is Directed to Vacate The
    Manko v. Lenox Hill Hospital et al Doc. 33 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK NELLA MANKO, Plaintiff, 20-CV-9928 (LTS) -against- ORDER LENOX HILL HOSPITAL, ET AL., Defendants. LAURA TAYLOR SWAIN, Chief United States District Judge: By order dated July 11, 2013, Judge Loretta Preska barred Plaintiff from filing any new action in forma pauperis (IFP) without first obtaining from the Court leave to file. See Manko v. Schlesinger, ECF 1:12-CV-9059, 11 (S.D.N.Y. July 11, 2013). Plaintiff filed this new pro se action on November 24, 2020, by placing it into a court drop box, but she did not seek leave from the Court to file, and her submission did not include an IFP application. Plaintiff wrote “Pro Se Filing – New Case – Fee Paid” on the envelope (ECF 1-2, at 126), but she did not tender the $400.00 in fees required to bring a civil action in this Court at the time she filed the complaint.1 By December 17, 2020, there was no indication on the docket that Plaintiff had tendered the filing fees. Moreover, the Court confirmed with its Finance Department that Plaintiff had not tendered the filing fees. Because it appeared that Plaintiff had not tendered the fees and had not sought or obtained leave to file IFP, by order dated December 17, 2020, then-Chief Judge Colleen McMahon dismissed the complaint without prejudice and entered judgment. (ECF 17, 19.) 1 At the time, the filing fees to file a civil action were $400.00.
    [Show full text]
  • Biography of Roberta Karmel
    ROBERTA S. KARMEL Brooklyn Law School 250 Joralemon Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 Tel.: (718) 780-7946 Fax: (718) 780-0375 Roberta S. Karmel is Centennial Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of International Business Law at Brooklyn Law School. She was a Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1977-80, a public director of the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. from 1983-89, and a member of the National Adjudicatory Council of the NASDR from 1998-2001. She was engaged in the private practice of law in New York City for over thirty years at Willkie Farr & Gallagher, Rogers & Wells and Kelley Drye & Warren. She received a B.A. cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1959 and an LL.B. cum laude from New York University School of Law in 1962. Professor Karmel is a Trustee of the Practising Law Institute. She is Co- Chair of the International Coordinating Committee of the Section of Business Law of the American Bar Association and Chair of the AALS Section on Securities Regulation. She is a member of the Advisory Committee on capital markets law to Unidroit, a member of the American Law Institute, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and on the Boards of Advisors of Securities Regulation and Law Report, The Review of Securities and Commodities Regulation, and the World Securities Law Report. She was a Fulbright Scholar in 1991-92. Professor Karmel is the author of over 50 articles in books and legal journals, and writes a regular column on securities regulation for the New York Law Journal.
    [Show full text]
  • Federal Judges Association Current Members by Circuit As of 10/8/2020
    Federal Judges Association Current Members by Circuit as of 10/8/2020 1st Circuit United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Jeffrey R. Howard 0 Kermit Victor Lipez (Snr) Sandra L. Lynch Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson United States District Court District of Maine D. Brock Hornby (Snr) 0 Jon David Levy George Z. Singal (Snr) Nancy Torresen John A. Woodcock, Jr. (Snr) United States District Court District of Massachusetts Allison Dale Burroughs 0 Denise Jefferson Casper Timothy S. Hillman Mark G. Mastroianni George A. O'Toole, Jr. (Snr) Michael A. Ponsor (Snr) Patti B. Saris F. Dennis Saylor Leo T. Sorokin Richard G. Stearns Indira Talwani Mark L. Wolf (Snr) Douglas P. Woodlock (Snr) William G. Young United States District Court District of New Hampshire Paul J. Barbadoro 0 Joseph N. Laplante Steven J. McAuliffe (Snr) Landya B. McCafferty Federal Judges Association Current Members by Circuit as of 10/8/2020 United States District Court District of Puerto Rico Francisco Augusto Besosa 0 Pedro A. Delgado Hernandez Daniel R. Dominguez (Snr) Jay A. Garcia-Gregory (Snr) Gustavo A. Gelpi, Jr. Juan M. Perez-Gimenez (Snr) United States District Court District of Rhode Island Mary M. Lisi (Snr) 0 John J. McConnell, Jr. William E. Smith 2nd Circuit United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Jose A. Cabranes 0 Guido Calabresi (Snr) Denny Chin Christopher F. Droney (Ret) Peter W. Hall Pierre N. Leval (Snr) Raymond J. Lohier, Jr. Gerard E. Lynch (Snr) Jon O. Newman (Snr) Barrington D. Parker, Jr. (Snr) Reena Raggi (Snr) Robert D. Sack (Snr) John M.
    [Show full text]