On April 12, the Firm filed a Rule 23(f) petition to appeal one of the first district court decisions construing and applying the “mismatch framework” announced in Arkansas Teacher Retirement System v. Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 77 F.4th 74 (2d Cir. 2023).

Today, the Firm filed the Cert. Reply in Gordon v. May, No. 23-629 (U.S.), urging the Supreme Court to review a legal question that respondent acknowledges has deeply divided the federal courts of appeals 4 to 7.

Today, Daniel Woofter filed an Amici Curiae Brief on behalf of NAPD and MACDL in Guardado v. Massachusetts, No. 23-886 (U.S.), urging the Supreme Court to review whether there is an exception to its double jeopardy jurisprudence that gives the prosecution a second trial in which to supply missing evidence when there was a change in the law after the first proceeding was complete.

Today, Daniel and Kevin filed the Cert. Reply in Rafay v. Jackson, No. 23-636 (U.S.), seeking a summary reversal from the Supreme Court for the Ninth Circuit to consider a habeas claim the panel overlooked—that Atif’s conviction was premised on a confession coerced by police tactics that are inherently coercive.

Today, Daniel Woofter filed an Amicus Curiea Brief on behalf of the National Association for Public Defense in support of the petitioner in Delligatti v. United States, No. 23-825 (U.S.), arguing that a prior conviction cannot be a predicate “crime of violence” under the use-of-force clause of Section 924(c) of the Armed Career Criminal Act if the crime of conviction can be accomplished with no physical action whatsoever.

Daniel Woofter represents the qui tam plaintiffs in related appeals pending before the D.C. Circuit, with oral argument set for April 1st. The Opening Brief in United States of America ex rel. O’Connor v. U.S. Cellular Corp., No. 23-7401, and the Opening Brief in related appeal No. 23-7044 were filed in October of last year. The Reply Brief in No. 23-7401 and the Reply Brief in No. 23-7044 were filed January 19 of this year.

Last Friday, the Firm filed a second Cert. Petition from state habeas in Escobar v. Texas, No. 23-934 (U.S.), a capital case in which the U.S. Supreme Court granted the Firm’s previous Cert. Petition on behalf of Mr. Escobar, vacated the judgment, and remanded to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for further consideration in light of the State’s confession of error.

On February 21st, the firm filed the Reply Brief in In re: London Silver Fixing, Ltd., No. 23-929 (2d Cir.), a case alleging a conspiracy among large banks to manipulate a precious metals price benchmark so they could reap supracompetitive profits in both the spot and futures markets for silver bullion.

Last Wednesday, Daniel Woofter filed the Opening Brief in The Wonderful Company LLC v. Nut Cravings, Inc., No. 23-7540 (2d Cir.), in a case alleging trade dress infringement under the Lanham Act.

On December 7, 2023, GRW filed a cert. petition in Gordon v. May, No. 23-629 (U.S.), asking the Supreme Court to resolve an entrenched circuit split over the standard that a state prison must meet to appeal the denial of his federal habeas petition.

On December 3, 2023, the Firm filed the Cert. Petition in Rafay v. Jackson, No. 23-636 (U.S.), in a case that was the subject of the inaugural episodes of the acclaimed Netflix documentary series “The Confession Tapes,” as well as an episode of Dr. Phil, in which Daniel Woofter appeared on behalf of his client.