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The court said that Nasdaq had "established, in multiple respects," that Exchange Traded Fund Managers Group had kept millions of dollars in management fees, including a $1.5 billion cybersecurity fund known by its ticker symbol HACK.

He was facing charges by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York until he pled guilty in federal court earlier this month. His sentencing is scheduled for March.

"None of that would have happened had he been affluent, drinking rosé with a chilled lobster picnic splayed out on Central Park's Great Lawn on a sunny summer afternoon," Associate Judge Rowan Wilson wrote.

Rattet PLLC, a bankruptcy boutique in Westchester County, is merging with Davidoff Hutcher & Citron effective Jan. 1.

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Harold Levine, who admitted to committing tax crimes and recently finished a federal prison sentence, tendered his resignation after previously fighting the effort to have him disbarred.

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When a prior instance of misconduct involves the immigration status of a witness, in view of the current political and societal climate on the subject, should a different standard be applied as to the limitation of a defendant's right to confront their accusers and to carve out an exception to what has been understood for decades to be professionally responsible cross-examination?

In his Estate Planning and Philanthropy column, Conrad Teitell discusses the IRS's annual inflation adjustment rules on minor quid pro quo benefits received for charitable gifts, and indexing of tax tables, personal exemptions, standard deductions and other tax provisions.

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A three-judge panel of the Manhattan-based appeals court said that the creditors' state law claims for constructive fraudulent conveyance were preempted by a provision of U.S. bankruptcy law, which protects certain transactions involving securities contracts.

A bankruptcy judge placed employment litigator Jeffrey Liddle's firm in the hands of a Chapter 11 trustee Thursday.

The bipartisan slate, which easily cleared final confirmation votes Thursday afternoon, included U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton partner Lewis Liman for the Southern District of New York, as well as Gary Richard Brown, a Brooklyn federal magistrate judge, to serve in the Eastern District.

"We're dead in the water without it," Soares said of the fiber optic network that streamlines communication among county agencies.

Attorney Eliot Bloom responded Thursday by filing a federal civil rights complaint against the New York state court system and several of its top officials.

On Dec. 17, judges for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District held a special session to dedicated the atrium in the lobby of the Alfonse M. D'Amato Courthouse to Judge Arthur Spatt.

"I don't think anyone can credibly argue it doesn't provide substantial relief for the class now and in the future," U.S. District Chief Judge Thomas Thrash Jr. said of the settlement.

The Child Victims Act opened a one-year window, starting in August, for victims of child sex abuse to pursue civil claims against their alleged abusers or the institutions that allegedly harbored them.

U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York said the lawsuit from New York Attorney General Letitia James and Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez raised valid claims that the practice could have deleterious effects on the criminal justice system.

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