On October 27, 2020, Judge Virginia M. Kendall of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted Shapiro Arato Bach’s motions to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction and/or improper venue filed on behalf of firm clients, The Orchard Enterprises, Independent Online Distribution Alliance, Inc., and MediaNet, Inc. The plaintiff in … Read more
On April 27, 2020, Judge Eduardo Ramos of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled for Shapiro Arato Bach client the Manhattan Institute For Policy and dismissed a copyright-infringement lawsuit brought by Richard Harbus, a freelance photographer, over the Manhattan Institute’s use of one of Harbus’s photographs on its … Read more
On November 9, 2020, Shapiro Arato Bach filed a petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court in Level the Playing Field, et al v. Federal Election Commission on behalf of petitioners Level the Playing Field, Peter Ackerman, the Green Party of the United States, and the Libertarian National Committee, Inc. The … Read more
On September 29, 2020, following a five-day trial and post-trial briefing, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a decision deciding all claims in favor of our clients HYPR Corp. and George Avetisov. HYPR Corp., founded by Avetisov, provides technology solutions to help businesses secure their systems and prevent … Read more
On July 23, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in favor of our client, Jarvis Elder, on all but one of the claims raised in his civil rights appeal. Mr. Elder spent 6 months in a punitive “special housing unit” after a prison disciplinary hearing at which he was … Read more
Chambers and Partners has recognized Shapiro Arato Bach in the category of Specialist Firms in White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations for 2020. The guide notes that the firm is “widely considered the leading firm in the city for criminal appellate work” and is “called on by individuals from financial services firms, corporations and political organizations … Read more
On February 3, 2020, the Second Circuit ruled in favor of Shapiro Arato Bach clients in a fair use copyright case concerning the transformative use of a spoken-word piece. In Estate of James Oscar Smith v. Aubrey Drake Graham, the heirs of jazz musician Jimmy Smith and a company that acquired rights to one of … Read more
Shapiro Arato Bach founding partners Alexandra Shapiro and Cynthia Arato were named to the 2020 Notable Women in Law list by Crain’s New York Business. In its list, the publication honors 100 “dedicated, gifted and determined” women lawyers in New York. See 2020 Notable Women in Law to read the profiles for each of this … Read more
On November 19, 2019, Shapiro Arato Bach partner Cynthia Arato will moderate the New York State Bar Association’s forum The Crisis in Local Journalism: Are Nonprofits the Answer? The forum is part of the bar association’s Task Force on Free Expression in the Digital Age, which Arato co-chairs with David McCraw, Deputy General Counsel of The … Read more
Shapiro Arato Bach partner Cynthia Arato will be a featured panelist at the Music Business and Law Conference on November 15, 2019, at New York Law School. Arato will be speaking as part of the Litigation Update on the Music Front panel. The annual conference is sponsored by the Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section … Read more