Representative Matters

• Dominion Voting v. Fox News and Fox Corporation, Superior Court of Delaware (co- counsel with Susman Godfrey and Clair Locke Firms in suit brought by Dominion against Fox News; argued motion to dismiss for Dominion and was one of three advocates who argued motion for summary judgment for Dominion) 

• Dominion v. Newsmax, Superior Court of Delaware (co-counsel in litigation by Dominion against Newsmax arising from 2020 election) 

• Goldfarb v. Channel One Russia and RT America, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (co-counsel for plaintiff, Alex Goldfarb, a human rights activist, in defamation suits against Russian media outlets arising from false claims that Goldfarb was complicit in the death through radioactive poisoning of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko in England.) 

• Goodier v. Cousins, Supreme Court of Delaware (lead counsel for defamation defendant Rosemary Goodier in successful appeal in the Supreme Court of Delaware arising from suit in which Goodier criticized another Delaware lawyer’s bringing of a suit to block a school board from abandoning the use of Native American symbols and mascots) 

• Harvey v. Cable News Network, United States District Court for the District of Maryland (lead counsel for defamation Lev Parnas in successfully arguing motion to dismiss in defamation suit brought by Derek Harvey, CNN, and others relating to issues concerning Donald Trump, Hunter Biden, and Ukraine) 

• We Charity Inc. v. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, United States District Court for the District of Columbia (co-counsel in defamation action arising from defamation against charity “We Charity” against CBC) 

• Jevremovic v. Courville, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (co- counsel for defamation plaintiff in case arising from mental health counseling activities of plaintiff in relation to celebrities) 

• Goodman v Dohmen, Supreme Court of Delaware (lead counsel in Delaware Supreme Court on matter certified from the United States Supreme Court regarding interpretation of Delaware Corporate Law) 

• Uhlfelder v. De Santis, First District Court of Appeal, Florida (co-counsel representing attorney Daniel Uhlfelder presenting First Amendment defenses arising from Uhlfelder’s attacks on Florida Governor Ron De Santis’s handling of matters relating to COVID pandemic, in which Uhlfelder dressed as grim reaper and walked Florida beaches to 

  protest the Governor’s policies) 

• Nona Gaprindashvili v. Netflix, Inc., United States District Court for the Central District of California (co-counsel for plaintiff Nona Gaprindashvili in defamation suit against Netflix arising from the popular series The Queen’s Gambit) 

• Williams v. Netflix, Inc., United States District Court for the District of Delaware (co- counsel in defamation action on behalf of plaintiff arising from the Netflix series Inventing Anna) 

• Romeril v. Securities and Exchange Commission, United States Supreme Court, author of Amicus Brief entitled “Brief of Constitutional Law & First Amendment Scholars in Support of Petitioner (2022) 

• Calvert v. Fox, Superior Court of Los Angeles (co-counsel for plastic surgeon plaintiff in defamation suit against local television affiliate of Fox) 

  Richard Simmons v. American Media (co-counsel in defamation lawsuit by exercise celebrity Richard Simmons against The National Enquirer) Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District; Los Angeles County Superior Court 

• J. Kyle Bass v. United Development Funding, L.P., Court of Appeals for the Fifth District of Texas (co-appellate counsel in business disparagement claim on behalf of plaintiff in a “short and distort” hedge fund dispute) 

  Phi Kappa Psi v. Rolling Stone Magazine (co-counsel in defamation suit against Rolling Stone magazine arising from fabricated gang-rape story at the University of Virginia), Circuit Court for the City of Charlottesville, Virginia 

• Chapman v. New York Times Company (co-counsel in defamation action against The New York Times), United States District Court for the Southern District of New York 

• Matal v. Tam, Supreme Court of the United States, (co-counsel with Floyd Abrams on amicus brief in First Amendment / trademark case) 

• Virginia v. Black, Supreme Court of the United States (Lead counsel and presented oral argument in U.S. Supreme Court; also lead counsel and presented oral argument in Supreme Court of Virginia and Virginia Court of Appeals) (free speech case involving challenge to Virginia’s cross-burning law) 

• Chevron Corp. v. Berlinger, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (Co- counsel) (journalist’s privilege case involving outtakes from a documentary film) 

• Condit v. National Enquirer, Inc. United States District Court for the Eastern District of California (Co-counsel for Plaintiff Carolyn Condit, presented oral argument) (libel case involving Carolyn Condit, spouse of Congressman Gary Condit, arising from Enquirer article suggesting Carolyn Condit was complicit in disappearance or murder of Chandra Levy) 

• Pape v. Florida Bar, Supreme Court of the United States (Counsel of record on Petition for Certiorari) (First Amendment lawyer advertising case) 

• Cobb v. Time, Inc., Supreme Court of the United States (Co-counsel and principal author of Petition for Certiorari) (libel case arising from Sports Illustrated article—represented defamed plaintiff) 

  Anheuser-Busch, Inc. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City, Supreme Court of the United States (Co-counsel on Petition for Certiorari) (commercial speech case involving billboard advertising—represented Anheuser Busch) 

• Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, United States Supreme Court (Co-counsel for Amicus and principal author of Brief Amicus Curiae) (Intentional infliction of emotional distress claim pitting Larry Flynt against Jerry Falwell—represented major American news organizations in support of Larry Flynt on grounds that parody and satire protected under the First Amendment)