May 25, 2017
Stacy Horth-Neubert
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Horth-Neubert handles a wide array of complex commercial matters, with an emphasis on state and local regulations, unfair business practices, false advertising, and contract disputes. But it's her pro bono work that Horth-Neubert views as particularly significant.
For the last ten years, Horth-Neubert has served as head coordinator for the pro bono program at Skadden's Los Angeles office. Horth-Neubert is currently leading a pro bono team of Skadden lawyers in a lawsuit alongside the National Immigration Law Center challenging a Louisiana law that prohibits many immigrants from obtaining marriage licenses.
Implemented in 2015 to ostensibly stop illegal immigrants from obtaining licenses, Horth-Neubert said the law has affected legal immigrants as well. Vo v. Gee et al., 2:16-cv-15639 (E.D. La., filed Oct. 18, 2016).
"We recently won a preliminary injunction from the federal court in Louisiana determining that the law was unconstitutional," Horth-Neubert said. "That was a very impactful and meaningful result, for the client and for the bigger picture in the fight for marriage equality in our country."
In her regular practice, Horth-Neubert has represented a number of online travel companies, like Expedia, Hotels.com, and Priceline.com, in legal battles nationwide over liabilities on taxes for room reservation fees.
One such case led to a December 2016 California Supreme Court ruling that ended a decadelong legal battle between the city of San Diego and Hotels.com, in which the court unanimously found that an online travel company is not the operator of a hotel and therefore cannot be liable for San Diego's transient occupancy tax. In re Transient Occupancy Tax Cases, S218400 (Cal. Sup. Ct. Dec. 12, 2016).
"They issued a ruling that would have wide impacts across the state. We're still fighting two of these in California," Horth-Neubert said, referring to litigation over local transient occupancy taxes. "One in San Francisco, and the other in Los Angeles, which has been going on since 2005. That's been a long one."
— Steven Crighton
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