Bitzlato Founder Anatoly Legkodymov Sentenced to Time Served | New York Law Journal Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2024/07/18/an-entrepreneur-and-a-visionary-us-judge-sentences-ex-crypto-exchange-founder-to-time-served/ Eric N. Vitaliano, federal district judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. File photo. The judge explained that under the American Bar Association’s “shadow guidelines”—an alternative…

Vice Chancellor Sam Glasscock III decided Thursday not to stop a former Hub Group Inc. executive from taking another job, stating that the transportation and logistics company hadn’t convinced him it would be able to prove the contract enforceable at trial. The denial of Hub Group’s preliminary injunction, a win for the Richards, Layton…

Acclaimed rap artist Kanye West has been hit with a copyright infringement suit filed by Baker & Hostetler on behalf of musician DJ Khalil and three other artists over use of their work on his 2021 album “Donda.” The complaint, filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Central…

Blank Rome is on a transactional practice hiring spree this year, most recently tacking on three energy and natural resource partners from Reed Smith, including the firm’s former energy and natural resources practice co-chair Ryan Purpura. Purpura, who will be operating in both Pennsylvania and Texas, is joined in the…

With the demise of Chevron deference, regulated entities are emboldened to challenge—and judges more free to question—U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations as beyond the EPA’s statutory authority, environmental law experts said this week. Their comments followed the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo overturning what…

Rejecting Nationwide Insurance’s arguments brought by a midsized regional firm that an ordinary person would understand that a “post third sale offering” of a tax-delinquent home is considered a “public auction,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a lower court’s order siding with the insurer. In…