Second Circuit Local Rule: Attorneys Who Fail To Apply for Readmission Will Be Removed from the Rolls

Starting July 1, 2011, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals will start removing from its rolls attorneys who do not apply for readmission.

Many lawyers do not realize that when they are admitted to the bar of the state in which they practice, the story of being admitted to courts does not end there.   Federal district courts and appellate courts each require that the attorney be admitted to that court as well.   So, for example, I am admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and also admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.   Right now these courts are in the same building.  One might be surprised how often attorneys overlook the admission requirements.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals' listing of attorneys admitted to practice before it can be found here.

The Court's announcement that it will be removing attorneys who don't apply for readmission here.

The Second Circuit's Local Rule 46.1 on Attorney Admission here.

Announcement below:

The Court has transferred its roll of admitted attorneys to the CM/ECF database and has posted the roll to the website. The roll consists of attorneys who originally were admitted:
* before April 1, 2004 and renewed admission pursuant to LR 46.1(a);
* after April 1, 2004 regardless of whether an attorney renewed admission.

For informational purposes the Court will continue to post on the website the roll listing attorneys admitted between January 1, 1985 and December 31, 2010. This "Archived Roll of Admitted Attorneys" will assist, in particular, an attorney who wishes to track a pre-April 1, 2004 admission date but has not yet renewed admission. If an attorney admitted between April 1, 2004, and December 31, 2010, does not see his/her name in the CM/ECF database but does see his/her name on the Archived Roll, please contact Admissions at 212-857-8640.

Pursuant to LR 46.1(a), an attorney who was admitted prior to January 14, 2006, and has not renewed admission is now considered in inactive status. After 12 months in inactive status, an attorney will be removed from the admission roll. That attorney must then reapply for admission in accordance with the rule to file a notice of appearance in connection with a case before the Court. The Court will begin to record inactive attorneys as removed from the Archived Roll on July 1, 2011.

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Federal Bar Association Fifth Circuit Swearing in Ceremony - September 24

 The Vice Presidents of the

Federal Bar Association

for the Second Circuit

invite you to be sworn in to the

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Honorable Edith H. Jones Presiding

Chief Judge of the

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Date: September 24, 2010

Time: 8:00 a.m.

Place: New Orleans – Federal Bar Association Convention

For information http://www.fedbar.org/NewOrleans

Respectfully submitted,
Raymond J. Dowd
Amy Nussbaum Gell
Vice Presidents for the Second Circuit

R.S.V.P. Attendees must register at http://www.fedbar.org/
(early bird registration ends Sept 2)
Organized by the New Orleans Chapter of the Federal Bar Association
To join our Second Circuit delegation please r.s.vp. to
darias@dunnington.com
Tel: (212) 682-8811



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Holocaust Denial: William Randolph Hearst Was an "Innocent Purchaser" of Nazi Looted Art

Tintoretto - "Portrait of Alvise Vendramin"

HT to http://www.freerepublic.com/:   A story of a Jewish family recovering three masterpieces looted by the Nazis from the castle of William Randolph Hearst in 2009.   The punch line?  William Randolph Hearst was an "innocent purchaser".

For a newspaper to claim that Hearst was innocent when headlines of Nazi spoliation of Jews had pounded the American public from March of 1933 is really disgusting.

But three generations of US art historians have watched hundreds of stolen artworks pop up in US collections.  Each time the charade is played: "the purchaser must have been innocent".   This propanganda is principally put out by the members of the American Association of Museums and the American Association of Museum Directors.

"We started to learn about the Holocaust in the 1990's" - is the false claim put out by Holocaust profiteers Sotheby's and Christie's - the principal - and continuing - beneficiaries of the traffic in artworks looted from Jews and other Nazi persecutees 1933-1945.

William Randolph Hearst and his fellow American collectors knew damned well that Germany' Jews were being spoliated and they enjoyed snapping up bargains.   American art collectors, dealers and museums were well aware of the potential to snap up treasures, and they knew damned well where their bargains came from.

In the three generations that have passed since the end of World War II, these profiteers avoided taxes by donating these stolen works to their cronies and patsies in US museums - at inflated values - making the US taxpayer foot the bill for their traffic in stolen artworks.  Even better, they created their own museums and donated things to themselves, giving lip service to "charity".

Stupidly, people who do this are today called "philanthropists" - "generous" and "patrons of the arts" by the oily acolytes who populate the structures these buccaneers left behind.

But this massive raid on the US Treasury has never been studied and never been quantified.  Between 1945 and 1962, almost 4,000 stolen artworks were recovered in the US.   Since then, it seems that every few weeks a newspaper "quietly" announces the "utter shock" of some director who is caught with stolen property.

After generations of ripping off US taxpayers, these museum directors now claim that it is their "fiduciary duty" to make the dead victims and their families prove where the looted art in their collections come from.  The most "ethical" among them have published thousands of provenances with question marks on their websites and simply wait for another generation to die, rather than enlisting researchers to help them find the truth.

Unfortunately, US journalists are complicit in this game.  Few have read Janet Flanner's 1947 New Yorker pieces describing in detail Nazi art looting practices.  Few have looked at newsreels from 1945 where the American public was educated on the complete spoliation of Jews and their artworks.  Few have read the 1946 articles in Atlantic Monthly and National Geographic about Hitler's art spoliation.

And even fewer understand that from the time Hitler came to power, as the New York Times reported in March 1933, "To Be a Jew is a Crime in Nazi Germany" and by April 1933 tens of thousands of refugees were desperately trying to escape Germany while Nazis were stealing everything they had.

And now these lying museum directors are claiming that William Randolph Hearst "innocently" made a purchase at a Nazi auction in 1935?   Shame on them.

And shame on whatever journalist and "art history" schools that are pumping out so many graduates who are completely ignorant of history.

3 Nazi-confiscated works found at Hearst Castle - SFGate

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Ray Dowd as Local Counsel in the Second Circuit, Southern District of New York and New State Courts

RAYMOND J. DOWD is a partner in Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP, a New York firm founded in 1921.  He is part of Dunnington's corporate, intellectual property, litigation and arbitration and art law practice groups. He has broad corporate counsel and commercial litigation experience as first chair in federal and state trial and appellate courts.


Corporate counseling includes corporate and transactional work for entrepreneurial companies including international licensing. Trademark counseling includes registration, policing and enforcing rights. Counseling art owners and dealers includes transactional representation, UCC filings, tracking and recovering stolen art, handling disputes involving title, provenance, authenticity and theft.

Dispute resolution, litigation and arbitration includes corporate and partnership disputes, contract disputes, copyright, trademark, domain name , licensing, and rights of publicity, conducting bench and jury trials, arbitration, administrative proceedings, emergency applications for injunctive relief, quashing subpoenas, obtaining, enforcing, and collecting judgments.

Trust and estates matters include resolving business succession issues, handling contested probate proceedings through trial, and disputes involving heirship and decedents' estates.

International practice includes licensing deals in Latin America and Russia, litigations in Canada, France and Switzerland, pursuing discovery through letters rogatory, obtaining service of process in foreign countries, obtaining and challenging foreign expert and foreign legal opinions including cross-examination at trial.

Mr. Dowd is a Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of the Art Litigation and Dispute Resolution Institute at New York County Lawyers' Association together with the Hon. Stephen G. Crane.

AFFILIATIONS: Federal Bar Association - Vice President for the Second Circuit (2008-present), Editorial Board, The Federal Lawyer Magazine, President of Southern District of New York Chapter (2006-2008); Copyright Society of the U.S.A.; New York State Bar Association - Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, Intellectual Property Law Section; New York County Lawyers' Association - Board of Directors (2003 - 2006).

PUBLICATIONS: Copyright Litigation Handbook (West 4th Ed. 2009) ; Copyright Litigation Blog.

EDUCATION: Manhattan College (B.A. cum laude International Studies 1986); Fordham University School of Law (J.D. 1991), Articles Editor, Fordham International Law Journal.

LANGUAGES: French and Italian. Experienced litigating controversies involving German-language documents.