NATHAN THOMAS—On September 15, 2008, lawyers from Weil, Gotshal & Manges filed the largest bankruptcy petition in American history on behalf of Lehman Brothers. Five days later, after an eleven-hour hearing, Judge James Peck approved the sale of Lehman’s North American broker-dealer to Barclays. “I have to approve this transaction,” he said, “because it is […]
ERIK R. LEON—On September 28, 2026, the U.S. Senate passed the Protect College Sports Act (PCSA) by a bipartisan 77-22 vote, marking the first comprehensive college athletics bill to clear either chamber of Congress. Sponsored by Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), the PCSA aims to establish a uniform framework governing name, image, […]
JESSIE DAVILA—“I can say with 100% confidence I was raped.” On September 30, 2026, those words became a national headline, nearly two years after they were recorded in Jane Doe’s interview with Cornell University Police. Doe reported being sexually assaulted at Cornell’s Chi Phi fraternity house. Although Cornell imposed disciplinary sanctions, the local district attorney […]
ADNAN ZULIC–––On September 17, 2026, in Bidegain v. Plazas Vega, a Miami federal jury returned a unanimous verdict for Luis Alfonso Plazas Vega, a retired Colombian colonel, finding him not liable under the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991 (TVPA) for the torture and death of Magistrate Carlos Horacio Urán during the 1985 retaking of […]
MORGAN MAIORINO—On September 15, 2026, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act [H.R. 3633] (the “Clarity Act”) failed in the Senate to reach the 60-vote threshold required to invoke cloture and advance the bill toward a final vote. The Clarity Act represented the first comprehensive regulatory framework for digital asset markets in the United States, and […]
