All Charges Dismissed Against Indian Diplomat We defended Devyani Khobragade, the Acting Consul General of India, when she was publicly arrested on baseless visa fraud charges, strip-searched, and held in a cell with violent criminals. Ms. Khobragade is entitled to diplomatic immunity, and the underlying facts ultimately show that she…
Aurora Shooter’s Lawyers Take Fox News Subpoena Fight to Supreme Court We defended the fair trial rights of James Holmes, who faced the death penalty for charges arising out of a mass shooting tragedy at a theater in Aurora, Colorado. Shortly after Mr. Holmes was arrested, the police seized some…
No Felony Charges for French Spiderman We defended Alain Robert, the “French Spiderman,” who made headlines in 2008 after successfully climbing the 52-story New York Times Building and hanging a banner to draw attention to global warming. Sometimes the best that a person can do is to shine a light…
Hedge Fund Manager Walks After Fraud Charges Dropped We defended Chetan Kapur, the smart, creative young man behind ThinkStrategy, a New York hedge fund. When the market crashed in 2008, some of Mr. Kapur’s investors absorbed significant losses, as did virtually every other investor in America. In an effort to…
Charges Dismissed Against Professor in Assault on NYPD Officer We defended Suzanne LaFont, an anthropology professor, who was arrested and charged with assault on a police officer for intervening when the NYPD mishandled her husband’s medical emergency. Prof. LaFont, 59, and her husband, Karl Anders Peltomaa, 50, a physics and…
HBO Defeated in Privacy Rights Case We defended the privacy rights of a young woman who, while crossing the street near her home in Manhattan, had been surreptitiously filmed by an HBO reality show about a family of bounty hunters. As the camera zoomed in on her chest, the show’s…
Trademark Claims Dismissed Against German Private Equity Firm We defended prominent German private equity firm BVT Holdings in a lawsuit for alleged Lanham (Trademark) Act violations. After a protracted battle against a major Manhattan law firm in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, we…