Decisions

Clingman & Hanger Management Associates, LLC and Amini LLC today announced the approval of a settlement agreement with the US Department of Education (DOE), clearing the way for a final resolution of the complex bankruptcy of FCC Holdings, Inc. Prior to its 2014 bankruptcy, FCC operated 41 for-profit schools under the trade names Florida Career Colleges and Anthem Schools. 

Amini LLC just received a very significant decision from U.S Bankruptcy Judge Stuart M. Bernstein in a case we tried last summer against Lynn Tilton, chief executive officer and sole principal of Patriarch Partners, LLC and its affiliated entities, a holding company managing 75 companies: almost $42 million against her personally and a judgment of almost $40 million against Patriarch Partners Administrative Services, LLC, plus attorneys fees.

Amini LLC has obtained a significant outcome in its pro bono representation of Imhotep H’Shaka, a prisoner in the New York State prison system. After nearly a quarter-century in solitary confinement, he has finally been returned to general population within a maximum-security prison. During the vast majority of his 24-year-plus stint in solitary, he spent 23 hours per day alone in a 9 by 11-foot cell. When he was allowed out of his cell for outdoor recreation and exercise, he did so alone in an outdoor “pen” designed to hold only a single prisoner. Now, for the first time since early 1996, he can eat meals with other prisoners in the prison cafeteria rather than alone in his cell and participate in numerous other group activities, including greater access to his family and counsel.