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Fifth Circuit Reverses Teen’s Blocked Lawsuit Against New Orleans-Area Police Officers

August 5, 2024

A Cooley pro bono team secured an appeal from the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversing a lower court’s decision granting qualified immunity to officers who held Black teenagers looking for a lost dog at gunpoint. The Fifth Circuit held that the officers were not entitled to qualified immunity for stopping the teens because a reasonable jury could find that the officers had no reasonable basis to suspect any criminal activity.

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Patrick Gibbs
Partner, Palo Alto
Patrick J. Hayden
Special Counsel, New York
Christopher Andrews
Associate, New York
Victoria R. Pasculli
Associate, New York
Valeria M. Pelet del Toro
Associate, New York
Ariana E. Bustos
Associate, Los Angeles
Jorge Sarmiento
Associate, New York

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Cooley, Representing Neuroscience Scholars, Seeks Parole Reform for Youthful Offenders

September 1, 2023

Cooley filed an amicus brief representing more than 25 of the nation’s leading neuroscience, psychology, and juvenile justice scholars and nonprofits in the pending California Supreme Court merits case, People v. Hardin.

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Kathleen R. Hartnett
Partner, San Francisco
Matt K. Nguyen
Associate, Washington, DC
Ariana E. Bustos
Associate, Los Angeles
Dawn Roelofs
Paralegal Specialist, Reston

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Cooley Team Secures Another Win for National Association of Realtors

August 21, 2023

Cooley, alongside a team from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, secured a summary judgment victory for the National Association of Realtors (NAR) in a high-stakes antitrust case brought against NAR and Zillow.

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Beatriz Mejia
Partner, San Francisco
Dee Bansal
Partner, Washington, DC
Elizabeth Wright
Special Counsel, Boston
Sarah M. Topol
Associate, New York
Georgina Inglis
Associate, Washington, DC
Joyce Rodriguez-Luna
Associate, New York
Anne Bigler
Associate, New York
Mike Tetreault
Associate, San Diego
Ariana E. Bustos
Associate, Los Angeles
Courtney Fisher
Senior Paralegal, Washington, DC
Jay McCune
Paralegal Specialist, San Francisco

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