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Kim focuses on class action defense, professional liability matters, complex commercial disputes, appeals and health care litigation. She is passionate about learning the intricacies of her clients’ businesses, crafting novel legal arguments, and devising creative litigation strategies. Her goal: an effective and efficient approach tailored to the unique needs of each case.  

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Greetings, Court fans!

It’s been a great week for admin-law junkies; maybe not so much for the D.C. Circuit, which suffered two unanimous reversals in Perez v. Mortgage Bankers Ass’n (13-1041) and Dep’t of Transportation v. Ass’n of American Railroads (13-1080). Today we bring you summaries of these two decisions and the most recent cert grants, as we work backwards through a five-case backlog.
Read More Perez v. Mortgage Bankers Ass’n (13-1041), Dep’t of Transportation v. Ass’n of American Railroads (13-1080) and Order List

Greetings, Court fans!

The robed returned to action with this week with decisions in three cases, North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission (13-534), on whether state licensing boards enjoy immunity from antitrust laws when they’re comprised of market participants; Kansas v. Nebraska (126, Orig.), on the relative rights of Kansas and Nebraska to the waters of the Republican River…
Read More North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission (13-534), Kansas v. Nebraska (126, Orig.) and Yates v. United States (13-7451)

Greetings, Court fans!

While we in New Haven were more-or-less spared having to dig out from “Winter Storm Juno” (aka “snowbigdeal”), it’s taken us a while to dig out from the Court’s recent pile of opinions. With this Update, though, we should have you up to speed. Read on for summaries of Teva Pharmaceuticals USA v. Sandoz (13-584), on the appellate review standard for…

Read More Teva Pharmaceuticals USA v. Sandoz (13-584); Department of Homeland Security v. MacLean (13-894); Holt v. Hobbs (13-6827); M&G Polymers v. Tackett (13-1010) and Order List

Greetings, Court Fans!

What began as a trickle of decisions from the Court’s October sitting has swiftly burgeoned into a flood. Yesterday, the Court announced decisions in three more cases, on top of the three decisions handed down Tuesday, and we still owe you one from last week! While it’s fair to say we’re underwater, we’ll bail ourselves out a bit today with summaries of…

Read More T-Mobile v. City of Roswell (13-975), Hana Financial, Inc. v. Hana Bank (13-1211), Gelboim v. Bank of America (13-1174) and Christeson v. Roper (14-6873)

Greetings, Court fans!

We’re back with breaking news on the certiorari front, along with a summary of one of Wednesday’s decisions, Jennings v. Stephens (13-7211), on the application of certain longstanding principles of appellate procedure to habeas appeals.

Cert first: The Court just this afternoon granted certiorari in all four pending same-sex marriage decisions—Obergefell v. Hodges (14-556), Tanco v. Haslam (14-562), DeBoer …

Read More Jennings v. Stephens and Order List

Greetings, Court fans!

The Court returned to action yesterday with two quick-and-unanimous decisions on statutory construction, Jesinoski v. Countrywide Home Loans (13-684), addressing the time and manner for exercising the Truth in Lending Act’s right to rescind a home loan, and Whitfield v. United States (13-9026), on the scope of the federal bank-robbery statute’s “forced accompaniment” provision.

Justice Scalia took the pen for…

Read More Jesinoski v. Countrywide Home Loans (13-684) and Whitfield v. United States (13-9026)