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Cooley, Social and Racial Justice Nonprofits Challenge Constitutionality of TikTok Ban

June 27, 2024

Cooley today filed an amicus brief on behalf of social and racial justice nonprofits in TikTok Inc. and ByteDance Ltd. v. Merrick B. Garland (US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit) challenging the federal legislation banning TikTok – a modern-day digital town square used by more than 150 million US users to engage in First Amendment-protected expression – on free speech and equal protection grounds.

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Matt K. Nguyen
Associate, Washington, DC
Kathleen R. Hartnett
Partner, San Francisco
Travis LeBlanc
Partner, Washington, DC
Jamie Robertson
Associate, Chicago
Hilarie Laing
Paralegal Specialist, Washington, DC

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Cooley, Cybersecurity Leaders File Brief Opposing SEC’s SolarWinds Cyberattack Case

February 2, 2024

Cooley, alongside co-counsel Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP, filed amicus briefs on behalf of 50+ current and former chief information security officers and cybersecurity organizations in Securities and Exchange Commission v. SolarWinds Corp. and Timothy G. Brown, which is pending in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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Andrew D. Goldstein
Co-Partner in Charge – Washington, DC, Washington, DC
Matt K. Nguyen
Associate, Washington, DC
Hilarie Laing
Paralegal Specialist, Washington, DC

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Cooley Protects Launch of Hailey Rhode Bieber’s Rhode Skin Care Line by Defeating Preliminary Injunction Motion

July 30, 2022

Cooley secured a product line-saving trademark victory for Hailey Rhode Bieber and her companies, Rhodedeodato and HRBeauty, on July 22 when the US District Court for the Southern District of New York denied Rhode NYC’s motion for a preliminary injunction seeking to enjoin Bieber from offering her recently launched skin care line under the RHODE mark. Lawyers Michael Rhodes, Brendan Hughes, and Rebecca Givner-Forbes are leading the Cooley team advising Bieber and her companies.

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Brendan Hughes
Co-Partner in Charge – Washington, DC, Washington, DC
Rebecca Givner-Forbes
Special Counsel , Washington, DC
Bobby Ghajar
Partner, Santa Monica
Judd Lauter
Special Counsel, San Francisco
Kayla Blaker
Associate, Colorado
Hilarie Laing
Paralegal Specialist, Washington, DC
Justin Royer
Paralegal Specialist, Reston

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Charlottesville Plaintiffs Secure Justice Against White Supremacist Leaders and Groups With Historic Lawsuit Win

November 23, 2021

Nine plaintiffs, who were victims of a coordinated attack by white supremacists during the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017, won a historic victory in the landmark federal lawsuit Sines v. Kessler. A Cooley team led by Alan Levine, David Mills and Bob Cahill acted pro bono on behalf of the plaintiffs alongside Kaplan Hecker & Fink, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and Woods Rogers.

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Alan Levine
Senior Counsel, New York
David E. Mills
Partner, Washington, DC
Courtney Fisher
Senior Paralegal, Washington, DC
Hilarie Laing
Paralegal Specialist, Washington, DC
Amanda L. Liverzani
Associate, New York
Caitlin B. Munley
Associate, Washington, DC
Joshua Siegel
Special Counsel, Washington, DC

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