By David Gialanella | December 11, 2017
In a case lodged by Montclair State University over plans for a road construction project, the New Jersey Supreme Court has agreed to take up the issue of how closely state and local government entities must coordinate on such undertakings.
By Josefa Velasquez | December 8, 2017
A spokeswoman for ICE said Friday that the agents pursue arrests of undocumented immigrants in courthouses because the facilities provide a “far safer” environment for everyone involved, responding to calls by legal advocacy groups for state courts to impose limits on the practice.
New York Law Journal | Letter to the Editor
By Dennis Boshnack | December 8, 2017
What is puzzling about DOF's volunteering to cancel the fines is not just that the fines total tens of millions of dollars but that DOF routinely treats misdescription of information required by VTL 238(2) as an affirmative defense, not a jurisdictional defect.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Zack Needles | December 7, 2017
Pennsylvania's Professional Nursing Law does not require a nurse whose license is automatically suspended because of a felony drug conviction to wait 10 years before seeking reinstatement, the state Supreme Court said, rejecting the State Board of Nursing's recently adopted interpretation of the statute.
By Jason Grant | December 5, 2017
Advocates for the clock say the decision is a monumental one: They argue that it makes clear that the city Landmarks Preservation Commission may prevent the residential privatization of interior landmarks, of which there are 117 across New York City.
By Josefa Velasquez | Colby Hamilton | December 5, 2017
As the number of arrests at courthouses by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers continue to rise under the Trump Administration, a report released Tuesday by the Fund for Modern Courts suggests New York's courts should limit the cooperation and assistance they provide to ICE officers in the courthouses.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Ben Seal | November 30, 2017
A party seeking access to public records is entitled to pursue official copies through litigation even when unofficial copies are available through third-party sources, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled.
By Susan DeSantis | November 28, 2017
Justice Douglas McKeon will take over as presiding justice of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court, First Department, and Justice Matthew Cooper has been made an associate justice on that court.
By Scott Graham | November 27, 2017
There was no clear majority Monday signaling the death of inter partes review—the administrative procedure for reviewing patent validity created by the 2011 America Invents Act.
By Josefa Velasquez | November 21, 2017
New York's highest court overruled an Appellate Division, Fourth Department, ruling Monday on whether Family Court has jurisdiction to conduct a permanency hearing once an underlying neglect petition has been dismissed for failure to prove neglect.
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