First Amendment; Publishing; Injunctions; Appeals (New York)
The Firm successfully defended a national publishing company in a New York lawsuit filed by a "big six" accounting firm which was trying to prevent the publisher from publishing certain confidential information regarding the accounting firm's internal financial matters, including each individual partner's profits. After a New York trial judge had issued an ex-parte injunction prohibiting the Client's publication of the information, attorneys for the Firm flew to New York and obtained an immediate reversal of the judge's injunction by the New York Court of Appeals. The Firm also succeeded in forcing the accounting firm to pay all its attorneys fees so that the Client incurred no costs in winning the case. (The case was reported locally and nationally, by The New York Times and others, and of course, by the Client's own publication.)
