New York, NY
International law Lawyer at New York, NY
Practice Areas: International Law, Litigation, Appeals
OUTCOME: Dismissal of all claims against defendant; held: plaintiffs failed to plausibly plead elements of Anti-Terrorism Act tort. Client victory.
Adopting report and recommendation and dismissing plaintiffs' Anti-Terrorism Act case for failure plausibly to allege the state of mind and causation elements of their claims.
OUTCOME: Magistrate recommeded dismissal of all claims against defendant; held: plaintiffs failed to plausibly plead elements of Anti-Terrorism Act tort. Client victory.
Secured favorable report and recommendation from magistrate judge, recommending that defendant’s motion to dismiss multi-million-dollar Anti-Terrorism Act lawsuit be granted because plaintiffs’ complai ... nt failed to plausibly plead that the defendant’s routine banking activities could satisfy the elements of liability under the statute.
OUTCOME: Dismissal of all claims against defendant; held: plaintiffs failed to plausibly plead elements of Anti-Terrorism Act tort. Client victory.
Achieved dismissal of multi-million-dollar Anti-Terrorism Act lawsuit after district court found plaintiffs failed to plausibly plead that defendant’s banking activities were sufficient to support a cl ... aim that it committed an act of international terrorism, or aided and abetted such an act, as required to state a claim for relief under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
OUTCOME: Dismissal of plaintiffs' claims affirmed; held: foreign corporations cannot be sued under the Alien Tort Statute. Client victory.
Only the third time that the Supreme Court of the United States addressed the proper scope and application of the Alien Tort Statute ("ATS"), 28 U.S.C. § 1350, since the statute's enactment in 1789. I ... n a 5-4 plurality opinion, the Court held that foreign corporations are not proper defendants in ATS actions.
OUTCOME: Trial court judgment vacated and remanded; held: trial court committed prejudicial error in instructing the jury with regard to the elements of a civil Anti-Terrorism Act claim. Client victory.
Seminal corporate liability civil action brought under the Anti-Terrorism Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2333 ("ATA"). Finding in favor of our client, the appellate court vacated an adverse judgment entered by the ... trial court after concluding that it was based on prejudicial and erroneous jury instructions. In the year following the issuance of this opinion, it was cited as controlling or persuasive authority in more than 65 subsequent decisions addressing the proper scope and application of the ATA civil remedy.
OUTCOME: Dismissing plaintiffs' claims; held: Qatar-based media company not subject to the general or specific jurisdiction of the court. Client victory.
Former employee sought more than $7 million in damages against former employer for alleged injuries arising from his post at a Cairo office of the company in 2013-14.
OUTCOME: Order quashing subpoena seeking non-party documents. Client victory.
Law firm brought suit for unpaid legal fees against former clients. Former clients cross-claimed for inadequate assistance of counsel. Plaintiff sought files from defendants' successor law firm.
OUTCOME: Dismissal of plaintiffs' claims affirmed; held: the district court correctly applied the doctrine of collateral estoppel in dismissing plaintiffs' Anti-Terrorism Act claims. Client victory.
Alleged victims of Hezbollah attacks sued Lebanese bank, seeking to hold it liability for injuries incurred during the Second Lebanon War (July 12 to August 14, 2016). Appellate court held that the di ... strict court did not err in applying the doctrine of collateral estoppel to an out-of-circuit opinion and, on that basis, dismissing plaintiffs' ATA claims.
OUTCOME: Dismissal of plaintiffs' claims affirmed; held: district court did not err in concluding that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction over plaintiffs' Alien Tort Statute claims. Client victory.
Alleged victims of Hezbollah attacks sued Lebanese bank, seeking to hold it liability for injuries incurred during the Second Lebanon War (July 12 to August 14, 2016). Appellate court held that the dis ... trict court did not err in concluding that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction over plaintiffs' Alien Tort Statute claims.
OUTCOME: En banc review denied. Client victory.
Over 6,000 alien plaintiffs sought en banc review of Second Circuit decision holding corporations are not proper defendants in Alien Tort Statute cases.
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