NEWS & ACTIVITY

Yesterday, Clinton & Peed filed a complaint in federal court in California against Warner Bros on behalf of British voice actor Marc Silk and his company, The Production Pit Limited. The complaint alleges that (with the permission of Warner Bros and J.K. Rowling) Mr. Silk created recordings of certain performances in which he portrayed the talking “Sorting Hat” of the Harry Potter universe. Mr. Silk granted permission for these recordings to be used only in connection with a particular plush animatronic “Sorting Hat” toy.

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For the ninth year in a row, Washington DC SuperLawyers Magazine has selected founding partner Tim Clinton to its list of "Super Lawyers." Clinton and partner Matt Peed were first selected for inclusion in the list of "Rising Stars" for 2014 and 2015; and partner Alec Rosenberg was selected for inclusion in the “SuperLawyers” lists of 2014 and 2015, before Clinton was first named to the “SuperLawyers” list in 2016.

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Earlier today, Clinton & Peed filed an amicus brief as local counsel for nearly a dozen former judges and senior legal officials in support of the government’s proposed trial date and schedule in the criminal case against Donald Trump pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleging criminal interference in the 2020 election. The brief opposes the attempt by former President Trump’s legal team to postpone the trial until after the election.

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In yet another victory for our client, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed the dismissal of an indictment against C&P client Paul Guertin, a decorated former Foreign Service Officer.

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For eight years running, Washington DC SuperLawyers Magazine has selected founding partner Tim Clinton to its list of "Super Lawyers." Clinton and partner Matt Peed were first selected for inclusion in the list of "Rising Stars" for 2014 and 2015; and partner Alec Rosenberg was selected for inclusion in the “SuperLawyers” lists of 2014 and 2015, before Clinton was first named to the “SuperLawyers” list in 2016.

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After a one-day jury trial in the Eastern District of Virginia before Judge Leonie Brinkema, Clinton & Peed has a secured a judgment worth up to $2.7 million for the estate of John (“Jack”) C. West, Jr., a South Carolina lawyer who represented the individuals taken and held hostage from the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, during the period from November 1979 through January 1981.

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The D.C. Court of Appeals granted the appeal filed by Clinton & Peed, reversing the trial court’s decision dismissing its client’s claims on summary judgment. In its ruling for U Hall, the Court adopted the most tenant-favorable argument, announcing new law that should help future commercial tenants facing similar problems. Specifically, the “court[] adopt[ed] a more liberal view, as U Hall ask[ed] [it] to do, invoking equitable principles to enforce options whose prices are to be fixed at a later date.” Under this view, “when a lease contains an option provision that leaves the rental price for the option year(s) to be agreed upon at a later date, a court can infer that the parties would have agreed on a reasonable rental price for each option term.”

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For the seventh consecutive year, Washington DC SuperLawyers Magazine has selected founding partner Tim Clinton to its list of "Super Lawyers." Before first being named to the list in 2016, Clinton and partner Matt Peed were selected for inclusion in the list of "Rising Stars" for 2014 and 2015; and partner Alec Rosenberg was selected for inclusion in the “SuperLawyers” lists of 2014 and 2015.

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In a landmark ruling for the District of Columbia, District Judge Trevor McFadden has thrown out all charges against C&P client Paul Guertin, a decorated former Foreign Service Officer. The indictment alleged that Mr. Guertin withheld information on his Standard Form-86 (“SF-86”) during his periodic security clearance review process as part of his State Department employment. The government pursued an unusual and aggressive legal strategy, charging Mr. Guertin with wire fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1343) on the theory that he fraudulently obtained his ongoing salary through the alleged omissions. The government also charged him with obstructing an official proceeding—his security clearance review—under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c).

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Yesterday, Clinton & Peed’s Greg Lipper secured an appellate victory before the D.C. Court of Appeals reversing the four-year drug conviction of a client (whom we did not represent at trial) based upon Fourth Amendment grounds.

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Earlier this week Clinton & Peed filed a brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to rule that the District’s Anti-SLAPP Act—a law that protects people and organizations against abusive SLAPP suits designed to harass public advocates and censor public advocacy—applies to cases brought in federal court. The amicus brief, filed in Tah v. Global Witness Publishing, Inc., was filed on behalf of eleven prominent public-interest advocacy organizations.

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On Tuesday, March 3, Clinton & Peed filed an amicus brief on behalf of four congressional scholars telling the Supreme Court that the subpoenas for Trump’s financial records fall comfortably with the 200-year tradition of congressional investigation of the president and other high-ranking government officials.

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