The firm helped The Legal Aid Society win a significant ruling before the New York Court of Appeals that will prevent New York trial courts going forward from admitting evidence in criminal prosecutions without first affording defendants the opportunity to challenge its reliability through a Frye hearing.

No one knows exactly how much art and cultural property the Nazis stole during what Agnes Peresztegi has called "the greatest art theft in history."

Governor Cuomo has signed an amendment to New York Labor Law § 193, that expands permissible deductions from employee wages, effective November 6, 2012.

Mandatory subordination pursuant to section 510(b) is commonly applied where claims arise from the purchase or sale of securities that were issued by the debtor.

An attorney appointed to be counsel for a debtor in possession must first attest in a sworn affidavit that he or she does not represent any materially adverse interests to the estate or is not an interested party according to Section 327(a) of the Bankruptcy Code

Bill Maguire, Marc Weinstein and Neil Oxford led the HHR team that won a critical ruling for the government of Denmark in its international lawsuit seeking to recover...

We have received multiple reports that plaintiffs' lawyers and litigation funders are investigating class action lawsuits against companies that have not fully complied with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

July 15, 2021 – The firm won another victory on the merits for CoorsTek Bioceramics when the Paris Court of Appeal, acting as an EU trademark court...

This is the first of three entries in Hughes Hubbard's "In Dispute" series in which we will examine how some recent bilateral investment treaties (BITs) are incorporating and addressing environmental...

Hughes Hubbard led TC Heartland LLC to a decisive, 8-0 victory over Kraft Foods in the Supreme Court of the United States.

The claims of the direct purchaser plaintiffs proceeded to trial in March 2020 against four of the original 22 defendants, many of which were leading Japanese companies.

Earlier this month, the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association (ABA) convened for its 72nd Spring Meeting, which is the largest annual gathering of antitrust professionals...

In In re Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. Stockholder Litigation, the Delaware Court of Chancery clarified how a controlling stockholder may obtain dismissal at the pleadings stage (as opposed to after lengthy and costly discovery) ...

May 11, 2018 – On May 9, 2018, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced a new Department of Justice (DOJ) policy, to be incorporated into the U.S. Attorneys' Manual ...

Hughes Hubbard scored a victory for L-3 Communications and its then-subsidiary Vertex Aerospace when a New York federal court granted the sixth-largest global defense contractor's ...

October 28, 2020 — Hughes Hubbard achieved a decisive win for American University of Antigua (AUA) and Manipal Education Americas (MEA)

On March 13, 2014, Tullow Oil announced that it was suspending further funding and activities related to a drilling concession in Guinea.

On January 10, 2014, Judge George R. Hodges of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of North Carolina issued an order in In re Garlock Sealing Technologies, LLC estimating Garlock’s asbestos liability for present and future mesothelioma claims to be $125 million, the value proposed by the debtors.

With a short opinion by Justice Scalia, the U.S. Supreme Court this week unanimously reversed a Ninth Circuit decision that permitted the use of Bankruptcy Code Section 105(a) to impose an "equitable surcharge" on a debtor’s exempt assets to pay administrative costs, notwithstanding a Bankruptcy Code provision stating that exempt property "shall not be liable" for any such costs.

Participants in the securities and futures markets rely on the Bankruptcy Code’s safe harbor provisions to protect their transactions and assets.