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United States of America v. Elmer Stewart Rhodes, III

Washington, DC: A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment yesterday, which was unsealed today, charging 11 defendants with seditious conspiracy and other charges for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was in the process of ascertaining and counting the electoral votes related to the pre

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United States of America v. Peter Sotis and Emilie Voissem

Miami, Florida criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with for conspiring to and illegally attempting to export controlled items to Libya.

Peter Sotis, 57, of Delray Beach, and Emilie Voissem of Sunrise, were convicted in October 2021 following a one-week jury trial in Miami. Sotis was sentenced to 57 months in prison, and Voissem was sentenced to a split sentence of five

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Ash-har Quraishi; Marla Cichowski; Sam Winslade v. Deputy Michael Anderson, St. Charles County, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri Civil Rights lawyer represented plaintiff, who sued defendants on a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights violation theory.



On August 9, 2014, amid public unrest and protests, St. Louis County
requested assistance from the St. Charles County Regional SWAT Team. Anderson
was a member of the SWAT Team.
O

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United States of America v. Adam Winston James

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with aggravated identity theft as part of a plan to fraudulently obtain a Paycheck Protection Program loan.

Federal prosecutors charged Adam Winston James, 45, and Rafael Maturino, 41, in late 2020 in connection with a scheme to obtain PPP loans from area banks.


18:1028A(a)(1) Aggravated Identity Theft; FO

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MICHAEL MOSS, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. UNITED AIRLINES, INC.,et al.

Chicago, IL - Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Acte lawyer represented defendant with dicrimination claim.




From April 1, 2005, to 2010, United Air Lines pilots, who
also served in the reserve components of the Armed Forces
of the United States and were called periodically to active
duty,

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Kevin Clanton v. United States of America

Chicago, IL - Federal Tort Claim lawyer represented Plaintiff-Appellee with a Federal Tort Claim charge.



For context, we briefly recount the facts underlying the
Federal Torts Act claim, which are set forth in greater detail
in the district court’s initial order. After a pre-employment
physical exam in June 2008,

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Jennifer Holt v. Casely, Inc.

Muskogee, Oklahoma consumer law lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) violation theory.

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United States of America v. Terry Reed

Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charge with drug possession with intent to distribute and felony firearm possession.



Officers with the police department in Memphis, Tennessee, came to suspect Reed of
distributing marijuana. Ultimately, on May 17, 2018, Detective Brandon Evans filed three

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United States of America v. Brent Edington

Cincinnati, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiring to “knowingly make[] a false statement or report . . . for the purpose of influencing in any way the action of the” Farm Services Agency.



In 2019, the government filed a felony information charging Edington with conspiring to
violat

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United States of America v. Josh Small and Joni Johnson

Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with aiding and abetting a kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping charges.



Small and Johnson were indicted for aiding and abetting a kidnapping and
conspiracy to commit kidnapping in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1201(a)(1), (c). At trial, Linda
Spo

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Robin Matthian v. Tate & Kirlin Associates, Inc., et al.

Madison, Wisconsin consumer law lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a 15:1692 Fair Debt Collection Act violation theory.

The claims made and defenses asserted by the parties are not available.

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United States of America v. Demetrius Brooks

Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with being a felon in possession of a firearm charge.



Because the district court denied Brooks’s motion to suppress and the jury convicted him,
we recount the facts in the light most favorable to the prosecution. See United States v. Maya,
966 F.3d 493,

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Martin Cowen, et al. v. Secretary of State of Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on constitutional law violation theory.

Georgia law places restrictions on which prospective candidates for elective office can appear on the general election ballot. Over the past 50 years, courts have repeatedly rejected constitutional challenges to these ballot-access laws: first the Supreme Court, then our p

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United States of America v. Jankie Jackson and Peter Combs

Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with participating in a cocaine distribution ring charge.



Jankie Jackson ran a cocaine distribution ring with customers in central and eastern
Kentucky. Peter Combs joined Jackson’s operation. The ring was eventually foiled when DEA
agents and police m

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United States of America v. Ricky Fackrell and Christopher Cramer

New Orleans, LA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with the June 2014 prison murder of Leo Johns charge.



Fackrell has several previous convictions, including convictions for
aggravated assault, robbery, and possession of a prohibited object. His prison
record denotes several instances of misconduct includ

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STATE OF TEXAS; STATE OF KANSAS; STATE OF LOUISIANA; STATE OF INDIANA; STATE OF WISCONSIN; STATE OF NEBRASKA v. CHARLES P. RETTIG, in his Official Capacity as Commissioner of Internal Revenue; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New Orleans, LA - Health and Human Services lawyer represented Plaintiffs - Appellees Cross-Appellants with constitutional challenges to Section 9010 of the Affordable Care Acstitutionalt (the “ACA”) and statutory and constitutional challenges toa U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) administrative rule (the “Certification Rule”).

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United States of America v. Hunter VanPelt

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with fraud.

A Georgia woman participated in a scheme to fraudulently obtain more than $7.9 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

According to court documents, Hunter VanPel

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United States of America v. Delwin McClaren, Dedrick Keelen, Jawan Fortia, Bryan Scott, and Lionel Allen

New Orleans, LA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with a violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”), the Federal Controlled Substances Act, the Federal Gun Control Act, and the Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering Act (“VICAR”) charges.



Defendants were members

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Jose Cortez-Mendez v. Matthew Whitaker, Acting Attorney General

Richmond, VA - Immigration lawyer represented defendant with
seeking review of an order from the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”).



Cortez-Mendez was born in El Salvador. His father, Marcial Cortez, is deaf and
mute. People in El Salvador with these physical impairments have suffered routine
ridicule and di

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United States of America v. Bucks County Water and Sewer Authority

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania environmental law lawyer represented Defendant accused of violating the Clean Water Act and Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law.

The United States and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection filed a civil lawsuit against the Bucks County Water and Sewer Authority (“the Authority”), alleging violations of the federal Clean Water Act

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United States of America v. Stephen Warren

Bangor, Maine criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm.

On September 8, 2020, Stephen Warren, age 38, was stopped by an Old Town police officer. Warren was issued a summons for operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license and served with a protection order. Warren was told not to operate his car due to his suspended license. He igno

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United States of America v. Nikolaos Vastardis

Philadelphia, PA - International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution lawyer represented defendant with appealing his conviction and sentence for crimes that allegedly took place while he was Chief Engineer onboard a Liberian-registered petroleum tanker charge.



During ordinary operation, oceangoing petroleum
tankers a

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United States of America v. Donte Jacobs

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with distributing and conspiring to distribute the fentanyl and heroin charges.



The last thing Jeffrey Kane remembers before falling
asleep in the early hours of June 29, 2016, was his girlfriend,
Therisa Ally, sitting cross-legged on the floor by their

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GORSS MOTELS, INC., BAIS YAAKOV OF SPRING VALLEY, ROGER H. KAYE, AND ROGER H. KAYE, MD PC v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION AND UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New York, New York - Consumer litigation lawyer represented Petitioners with challenging a Federal Communications Commission order that removed the Solicited Fax Rule from the Code of Federal Regulations.


The TCPA, a statute designed (in another day) to help unclog the nation’s
fax machines, prohibits the use of “any telepho

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United States of America v. Stephen Warren

Bangor, Maine criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with possessing an unregistered firearm.

Stephen Warren, 38, was charged with possession of an unregistered firearm in violation of the National Firearms Act (NFA) weapon, 26 U.S.C. 5861, which providers:

"(a) Central registryThe Secretary shall maintain a central registry of all firearms in the United States w

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