Cases & Results: Tag Archive - "Federal Appeal"
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United States Supreme Court
Successfully obtained certiorari review in case challenging the “separate sovereigns” exception to the Fifth Amendment’s Double Jeopardy Clause. Client had been convicted as a felon-in-possession of a firearm in both federal and state court in Alabama. Emmett, one of three…
Western District of Louisiana; Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
After R.J. Reynolds terminated its direct-distributor relationship with Plaintiff Caldwell Wholesale, Caldwell sued, alleging tortious interference with business and violations of the Louisiana Unfair Trade Practices Act. Emmett authored R.J. Reynolds’s motion to dismiss and reply in support of the…
Northern District of Ohio; Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
In this case and roughly 20 others with which it was consolidated, the consumer plaintiffs argued that Experian had violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) by treating as suspicious correspondence purportedly sent by the plaintiffs. The parties, with the…
Northern District of Ohio; Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Successfully defended Cliffs and certain current and former company executives in a putative ERISA “stock drop” class action. Plaintiffs—participants in the company’s 401(k) plan—alleged that their 401(k) accounts suffered significant losses due to a prolonged decline in the price of…