About Meir Feder
Practice Areas
- Appellate
- Federal
Education
- Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989J.D.
- Honors: magna cum laude
- Law Review: Harvard Law Review, Supreme Court Editor
- Columbia University, 1986B.A.
- Honors: summa cum laude
Representative Cases
- Alfa Capital Markets successfully defends against RICO claim related to plaintiff’s failed investment in Russian telecommunications company
- Cole National challenges California restrictions on business and financial relationships between opticians and optometrist or ophthalmologist (2009)
- ConsumerInfo.com defeats class certification in a proposed Illinois class action involving Internet website marketing
- ConsumerInfo.com obtains summary judgment in Illinois consumer class action
- ConsumerInfo.com successfully petitions for interlocutory appeal
- Dell obtains dismissal of securities litigation (2009)
- EDS resolves consolidated securities fraud action and ERISA class action
- Experian defeats putative class action in Second Circuit based on preemption of state law under the FCRA
- Experian defeats suit in Ninth Circuit challenging, under Federal Credit Reporting Act, Experian's reporting of debt discharged in bankruptcy
- Experian prevails in 11th Circuit appeal in one of first applications of Safeco to a Fair Credit Reporting Act case (2009)
- Federated Department Stores division appeals NLRB decision
- Federated Dept. Stores defends NLRB decision on appeal
- Habeas corpus case involving claim of actual innocence scores victory before the 6th Circuit (2009)
- IBM successfully appeals environmental contamination ruling
- Individual appeals convictions for securities fraud to Second Circuit
- Macy's obtains favorable Second Circuit ruling in Title VII case challenging company policy for arbitrating employment disputes
- NACCO makes $325 unsolicited tender offer for Applica (2009)
- Prisoner represented in the 9th Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court in case involving the Prison Litigation Reform Act's exhaustion requirement
- SOURCECORP securities litigation dismissal upheld by 5th Circuit
- Tobacco retailers association files amicus brief in appeal from cigar trademark ruling
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- New York
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York
Past Positions
- Justice David H. Souter, U.S. Supreme Court, Law Clerk
- Judge William A. Norris, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1989 - 1990
- U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York: Deputy Chief of Appeals Unit, 2002 - 2003
Office Info
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