Members of the Appeals and Critical Motions practice assisted in creating a successful legal strategy, which translated into favorable jury instructions and, finally, verdicts of acquittal on all charges. Wrote amici curiae transient on behalf of organizations representing independent medical practices, defending a rule by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that brought parity to the reimbursements that Medicare supplies to hospital off-campus departments and freestanding doctor offices. In upholding this site-neutral cost rule, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit adopted the logic set forth in our clients’ amici curiae transient. It covers not only compelling appellate briefs, but additionally the development and presentation of persuasive arguments earlier than trial courts and administrative companies.
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In a global economic system with constantly evolving capital markets, institutional traders must know their rights and tips on how to protect their investments. Lowenstein Sandler’s Capital Markets Litigation apply has a singular breadth of expertise representing investment managers and institutional buyers, each home and foreign, together with monetary institutions, insurance coverage companies, hedge funds, non-public equity funds, and commercial creditors. We transfer swiftly and proactively, always recognizing the financial drivers underlying civil disputes. The Sarbanes Oxley Act, aggressive regulators, and well-funded class action attorneys have ushered in a brand new period of high-stakes securities litigation. We handle all such issues, including shareholder class actions, SEC proceedings, corporate governance points, contested takeovers, and shareholder disputes. Our securities apply attracts not only on our litigation attorneys with expertise in that area but additionally on our top-tier corporate transactional follow, which has been involved in cutting edge securities points for many years.
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The Tenth Circuit affirmed the judgment in favor of our client, a federal receiver in a securities fraud matter, holding that the claimant was properly denied any restoration from the receivership estate. In an enchantment involving a land use decision by our shopper, a Colorado county, the Colorado Court of Appeals reversed the trial court’s ruling that the county had improperly approved a cage free egg operation and remanded for reinstatement of our client’s approval of the operation. In a lawsuit that made two trips to the Tenth Circuit, that courtroom finally ordered reinstatement of the jury’s $177 million nuisance verdict, plus over $1 billion in prejudgment curiosity, in favor of our shoppers, owners of property broken from plutonium that migrated from Rocky Flats, a federal nuclear weapons plant. While the parties’ cross-petitions for certiorari have been pending within the Supreme Court, the case settled for $375 million.
SemaConnect received a contract to put in electric vehicle charging stations as part of the $15 billion settlement of Volkswagen’s vehicle emissions scandal. We successfully sought and obtained dismissal of ChargePoint’s grievance on the pleading stage on an expedited schedule. ChargePoint appealed the district court’s determination to the Federal Circuit, which affirmed our victory in a precedential decision.