Today Clinton & Peed has filed a petition for a writ of certiorari, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate our clients’ legal challenges to coercive probation orders, issued in Montgomery, Alabama without judicial review or approval. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that our clients’ lawsuits were barred by the Rooker–Feldman doctrine, a judge-made jurisdictional rule barring federal courts from hearing lawsuits challenging state-court judgments.
Read MoreWe are thrilled to welcome Alec Rosenberg as a partner, effective April 1, 2019. Alec, Tim, and Greg have known each other since their days as litigation associates in Covington & Burling's Washington, DC office, when Alec served as Tim’s senior "associate mentor." We have kept in touch with Alec, and have worked with him in various capacities, since then, including during his time as a partner in the Intellectual Property practice of Arent Fox (Washington, DC).
Read MorePartner Greg Lipper is quoted in this week’s issue of The Economist, discussing American Legion v. American Humanist Association, a Supreme Court Establishment Clause challenge to a government-sponsored 40-foot Latin cross in Bladensburg, Maryland.
Read MoreToday we filed an amicus brief, in the U.S. Supreme Court, supporting an Establishment Clause challenge to a 40-foot, government-sponsored Latin cross in Bladensburg, Maryland. The brief was prepared on behalf of several secular organizations: Freedom from Religion Foundation, Center for Inquiry, American Atheists, Military Association of Atheists & Freethinkers, and Secular Coalition of America.
Read MoreEarlier this month we filed an amicus brief, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, supporting a challenge to President Trump’s authority to appoint Matthew Whitaker as Acting Attorney General. We submitted the brief on behalf of Morton Rosenberg, who became one of the nation’s leading authorities on the Federal Vacancies Reform Act while serving at the Congressional Research Service when the statute was drafted and enacted.
Read MoreWe recently filed a Supreme Court brief on behalf of prison book clubs in Prison Legal News v. Jones. The brief supports a cert petition filed by Prison Legal News, which has brought a First Amendment challenge to the ban on its publication by the Florida Department of Corrections.
Read MorePartner Tim Clinton was selected for inclusion in the 2018 Washington, DC SuperLawyers list. This distinction is limited to only five percent of lawyers in Washington, DC.
Read MoreThis past weekend, partner Greg Lipper spoke at the American Constitution Society's 2018 Student Convention. He participated in the panel on Religious Freedom in 2018: Liberty, Equality, and Where We're Headed.
Read MoreToday we filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Lagos v. United States, No. 16–1519, an important criminal case in which the Court is considering whether the federal Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) authorizes restitution for companies' internal investigations that were neither requested nor required by the government. We prepared the amicus brief on behalf of Shon Hopwood, a professor at Georgetown Law and a promiment advocate for criminal-justice reform. Before becoming a lawyer, Professor Hopwood served nearly eleven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to multiple bank robberies; his path from prisoner to lawyer was recently profiled on 60 Minutes.
Read MoreESPN reports on the latest developments in our consumer-fraud lawsuit, on behalf of memorabilia collectors, against the New York Giants and QB Eli Manning. We allege, and the evidence reflects, that (1) Eli Manning, with the help of other Giants' personnel, provided counterfeit “game-used” items to Steiner Sports, which sold them to collectors, including our clients; and (2) the Giants learned about these practices and failed to stop them, much less remedy them. The fraudulent memorabilia includes a helmet displayed in the Pro Football Hall of Fame as purportedly worn by Eli Manning during the Giants’ Super Bowl 42 win against the New England Patriots.
Read MoreIn 2014, we filed a Federal Tort Claims Act lawsuit against the United States government, seeking to redress the wrongful deaths of 19-year-old Michael Roark and 17-year-old Tiffany York due to negligence by the U.S. Army. Last week, we finalized a settlement of the case on behalf of their parents. Our clients will receive a total of $4 million from the government.
Read MorePartner Greg Lipper, who chairs our Appellate & Supreme Court Practice, was quoted in Slate coverage of the federal government’s recent filing in the ongoing litigation over the reproductive rights of undocumented teenagers in government custody.
Read MorePartner Matt Peed, co-chair of our Criminal Defense practice, has been appointed to represent Mustafa al-Imam, the second Libyan national charged in connection with the 2012 attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, Libya. The case is assigned to Judge Christopher Cooper in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Read MoreWashington DC SuperLawyers Magazine has selected founding partner Tim Clinton its list of "SuperLawyers" for 2017. Mr. Clinton was first selected to this list in 2016; before that, he and partner Matt Peed were selected for inclusion in the list of "Rising Stars" for 2014 and 2015.
Read MoreTrial and appellate litigator Greg Lipper has joined Clinton Brook as a partner in the Washington, DC office. Greg brings over a decade of experience in high-stakes criminal and civil disputes, often involving complex questions of statutory and constitutional law.
“I’ve been recruiting Greg, my former colleague at Covington & Burling, to work with me for almost six years,” said founding partner Tim Clinton. “Greg is a brilliant strategist, writer, and speaker, and we’re delighted that he’s joining us.”
Read MoreFor the third consecutive year, the American Society of Legal Advocates (ASLA) has selected partner Tim Clinton as one of the “Top 40 Under 40” Lawyers in the District of Columbia, this year in the category of Litigation.
Read MoreClinton Brook & Peed is pleased to announce the addition of two attorneys, David Chung and Kari Parks.
Read MoreFor the second year in a row, Washington DC SuperLawyers Magazine has selected partners Matthew Peed and Tim Clinton to their list of “Rising Stars” for 2015.
Read MoreThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued an amended opinion in the appeal by former Duane Reade drugstore chain CEO Anthony Cuti, vacating more than two-thirds of the $7.6 million restitution award that had been imposed in the Southern District of New York following Mr. Cuti’s 2010 conviction for securities fraud.
Read MoreFor the second year in a row, the American Society of Legal Advocates (ASLA) has selected partner Tim Clinton as one of the “Top 40 Under 40 Criminal Defense Lawyers in the District of Columbia.”
“I am truly honored to receive this honor again,” Mr. Clinton says. “In a small firm like ours, however, any individual award is the product of the efforts of the entire team. My partners Matt Peed and Brian Brook deserve just as much of the credit.”
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