Chad Stertzbach and Valerie Linzey, parents from Hudson, faced a tumultuous ordeal after taking their 8-week-old baby, Lux, to the emergency room for a lump on his head. Valerie, a nurse practitioner, suspected something unusual about the swelling. However, a CT scan...
Narkis Golan, a U.S. citizen, won a historic 9-0 victory in her international child custody case, Golan v. Saada, before the U.S. Supreme Court on June 15. Golan’s case was the fifth 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction case ever heard. On Oct. 19, Golan was found dead in her apartment. The tragic end to…
The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial has left me exhausted. The sordid details of the once power-couple’s relationship have been invading my phone and television for months on end. Much of this feeling can undoubtedly be attributed to the constant media attention throughout the duration of the proceedings, as well as the sudden influx of endless thought-pieces upon its conclusion. For…
I and my team are back in the Supreme Court of the United States with an epic case that will be heard March 22, 2022. I am proud to say that this is not our first rodeo at the Supreme Court. Golan v. Saada is the fifth 1980 Hague Convention on Child Abduction case ever heard, and it turns on…
We are, obviously, disappointed in the outcome of the Supreme Court case Monasky v. Taglieri, especially for its impact upon Michelle Monasky and her daughter. Like all matters before the Supreme Court, however, this case had, and has, implications bigger than the impact on the particular litigants. While our involvement in this case has always been about achieving justice for…
Halle Berry’s personal family saga continues to evolve (see our previous posts on Berry’s child custody case here and here, and a related one involving Kelly Rutherford.) Just a few days ago, on Thanksgiving Day, a fight broke out between Gabriel Aubry, the father of Berry’s daughter Nahla, and Olivier Martinez, Berry’s fiancée. Apparently, Aubry was arrested at Halle’s house…
If you have paid any attention to the news lately then you probably already know that actor Charlie Sheen was fired. Both tabloids and mainstream news outlets have reported that he was terminated from the show “Two and a Half Men,” effective immediately. The decision by Warner Brothers comes as little surprise to most, after his highly publicized personal and…