September 23, 2019
Garvey Schubert Barer has urged a D.C. federal judge to reconsider his decision to allow portions of testimony by an expert for a TV station that accuses the law firm and a former attorney of malpractice, saying the court may have misinterpreted the firm's arguments in its motion to strike the testimony.
April 23, 2019
Garvey Schubert Barer has won the right to pursue equitable indemnification from any judgment that might be entered in a malpractice claim against the firm and a former attorney who has been accused of botching a license application for a low-power television station.
March 29, 2018
A D.C. federal judge rejected a retired Garvey Schubert Barer lawyer's bid to toss a malpractice claim brought by a low-power television station over his failure to complete an FCC form in 1999 that would have protected it from being displaced from its assigned frequency, while also denying the station a quick win.
January 24, 2017
A Garvey Schubert Barer attorney who escaped most of a malpractice lawsuit over an allegedly botched licensing application for a broadcasting company urged a D.C. federal judge on Tuesday to block the broadcaster from filing a new complaint, calling the claims "futile."
October 17, 2016
A D.C. federal judge dismissed Garvey Schubert Barer and defunct Haley Bader & Potts PLC from a $20 million malpractice suit Friday, freeing both firms from claims a former attorney flubbed a broadcast company's licensing application.
April 01, 2016
Garvey Schubert & Barer pushed again Friday for its dismissal from a $20 million malpractice suit springing from an allegedly bungled Federal Communications Commission application, arguing that the TV companies involved had failed to show that it should be responsible for the accused failures of a lawyer at a now-defunct firm.
March 21, 2016
A pair of low-power TV broadcasters shot back in D.C. federal court Friday at attempts by their former attorney and his firms to escape a $20 malpractice suit accusing him of bungling a Federal Communications Commission application that ultimately excluded the broadcasters from this month's spectrum auction.
February 22, 2016
Haley Bader & Potts urged a D.C. federal court Friday to dismiss a $20 million lawsuit by two broadcast companies over a flawed license application for a low-power TV station, saying the suit was filed in the wrong jurisdiction and the companies can't assign malpractice claims from one to the other.
February 18, 2016
Garvey Schubert Barer asked a D.C. federal judge Thursday to dismiss two low-power television stations' $20 million malpractice claims based on the failure of a former attorney to properly apply for a Federal Communications Commission broadcasting license, saying the attorney did not work at the firm at the time.
October 27, 2015
Garvey Schubert Barer and one of its former attorneys have been hit with a malpractice suit in Washington, D.C., federal court by a broadcaster claiming the lawyer failed to properly file a license application with the Federal Communications Commission, causing the company to lose $20 million.