The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit today issued a decision affirming Schulman Bhattacharya’s trial win for clients Claudio De Simone and ExeGi Pharma, LLC, in which we secured more than $17 million from a Greenbelt, Maryland jury on Lanham Act (false advertising) and unjust enrichment claims and a permanent injunction prohibiting further false advertising of the VSL#3 probiotic product. At trial, we recovered an additional amount just under $1 million in unpaid royalties, which the defendants... Read More »
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In two orders signed this week by Judge Ronald B. Rubin of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland, Schulman Bhattacharya secured a major victory for its clients Andrew Sachs, Sachs Capital, LLC, and related entities in their ongoing litigation with EM Group, LLC, Eli Kimel, Barclay Booth, and Travis Booth. In the first order, the Court directed that $6,641,070.89 be immediately paid over to the Sachs parties and that “as additional funds are deposited in the Court’s registry” from the sale of a... Read More »
In an important decision promoting clean energy in the District of Columbia, D.C. Superior Court Judge Heidi M. Pasichow upheld a 7 count complaint filed by Schulman Bhattacharya on behalf of a condominium owner asserting the right to install electric vehicle supply equipment (“EVSE”) in her building’s assigned parking space. Schulman Bhattacharya’s clients, the EB Trust and its trustees, own a condominium in the Chase Point Condominiums in Washington, D.C. One of the Plaintiffs, who resides in the... Read More »
Schulman Bhattacharya recently secured a pair of major victories for Andrew Sachs, Sachs Capital, LLC, and its related entities in their ongoing litigation with EM Group, LLC, Eli Kimel, Barclay Booth, and Travis Booth. First, on September 10, 2020, Judge Ronald B. Rubin of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland entered a memorandum and order, which can be read here, denying Defendants’ motion for a preliminary injunction. The injunction sought by Defendants would have held up millions of... Read More »
Schulman Bhattacharya, LLC is proud to announce the hiring of a new associate attorney who will be resident in the Firm’s Washington-area headquarters office. Mace Phillips joins the Firm after clerkships with the Honorable Brynja M. Booth of the Maryland Court of Appeals and the Honorable Stephen H. Kehoe of the Circuit Court for Talbot County. While clerking, Mace worked extensively on complex commercial cases, as well as cases in the areas of land use, insurance, bankruptcy, consumer protection,... Read More »
Just three weeks after obtaining a finding of contempt against Alfasigma USA, Inc. in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Schulman Bhattacharya secured another significant win against Alfasigma for its clients ExeGi Pharma, LLC and Professor Claudio De Simone. On August 20, 2020, Judge Ronald B. Rubin of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland granted the Firm’s motion for summary judgment, dismissing all of Alfasigma’s claims against ExeGi Pharma and Professor De Simone “with... Read More »
In a decision issued yesterday, Judge Theodore D. Chuang of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland ruled in favor of Schulman Bhattacharya’s client, ExeGi Pharma, LLC, holding its competitors Alfasigma USA, Inc. and VSL Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in contempt of the Permanent Injunction entered last year aimed at halting false advertising of the probiotic medical food VSL#3. This is the latest round in the ongoing legal battle over the highly successful, proprietary probiotic formulation invented by Schulman... Read More »
Schulman Bhattacharya, on behalf of its client, Sachs Capital, LLC, filed a Complaint and motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland, seeking to protect Sachs Capital's interests in the proceeds of a $480 million sale of a major national petroleum company. Sachs Capital, and its related entities, invested more than $31 million in the petroleum company and is set to receive a preferred return on its investment as the sale... Read More »
Schulman Bhattacharya, on behalf of its client, Dr. Mohsen Mosleh, filed a complaint against Howard University in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for its violations of the D.C. Human Rights Act. Dr. Mosleh, a tenured professor at Howard University of Iranian descent, asserts claims against the university for its long-standing discrimination against him on the basis of race and national origin and various acts of retaliation against him. On February 27, 2020, Judge Carl J. Nichols... Read More »
Schulman Bhattacharya’s bio-tech litigation practice, which helped clients win more than $91 million dollars in trial verdicts over the past three years, has secured another significant victory. This time, Schulman Bhattacharya represented a defendant, renowned pharmaceutical executive Gregg Lapointe, in a case filed in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiff in Washington County Board of Education v. Mallinckrodt Ard Inc., et al., sought to buttress its case by adding Mr. Lapointe as a defendant, alleging... Read More »