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
On November 4, 2019, Shapiro Arato Bach filed a brief in the United States Supreme Court for Power Integrations, Inc. as amicus curiae in support of affirmance in Thryv, Inc. f/k/a Dex Media, Inc. v. Click-to-Call Technologies, LP, et al., No. 18-916. This case presents the Supreme Court with yet another question concerning the inter … Read more
On October 22, 2019, the New York Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed the decision of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court, Fourth Judicial Department, which reversed the second-degree murder conviction of our client, Robert Neulander, and ordered a new trial. During Dr. Neulander’s trial, a juror repeatedly violated the trial court’s … Read more
On August 1, 2019, Shapiro Arato Bach obtained the dismissal of a tortious interference claim that an investment advisor brought against the firm’s client, Univision Communications Inc., in connection with a transaction involving the satirical website The Onion. The plaintiff in the case is GCA Advisors LLC. GCA alleged that Onion, Inc. hired GCA to help … Read more
Shapiro Arato Bach partner Cynthia Arato was quoted in Bloomberg Law’s coverage of Ariana Grande’s $10 million right-of-publicity lawsuit against Forever 21, Ariana Grande Tests When Lookalikes Can Look Too Much Alike.
On September 24, 2019, Shapiro Arato Bach LLP won a verdict of not guilty on all counts for our client in a five-defendant criminal jury trial in Kings County Supreme Court (People v. Shyknevsky et al., Indictment No. 2160/2017). The jury rejected allegations by the New York State Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit that … Read more
Shapiro Arato Bach partners Cynthia Arato and Daniel O’Neill authored an article that has been published in the most recent issue of Intellectual Property Magazine. The article, “A Literary Tale,” concerns the firm’s successful representation of the trustees of the J.D. Salinger Literary Trust in connection with litigation over the unauthorized publication of three of … Read more
Shapiro Arato Bach partner Cynthia Arato will co-chair a New York State Bar Association task force to tackle the crisis of shrinking local news outlets in the digital age. Arato will serve with co-chair David McCraw, Deputy General Counsel for The New York Times. The task force brings together experts from media, business, and legal … Read more
On June 3, 2019, Southern District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein ruled for Shapiro Arato Bach clients Univision Communications Inc. and Gizmodo Media Group, LLC and dismissed a trademark-infringement lawsuit brought by Ebony Magazine over an article published by “The Root,” a digital magazine and online platform operated by Gizmodo. The article, Dear Ebony Magazine: FU, … Read more