By Susan DeSantis | January 1, 2018
Alan Scheinkman will be presiding justice of the Appellate Division, Second Department, and Elizabeth Garry will take on the same role for the Third Department. She is the first openly LGBTQ presiding justice in New York.
New York Law Journal | Letter to the Editor
By Howard Davis | December 27, 2017
The courts and bar associations in New York continue, with few exceptions, to turn a deaf ear when it comes to the specific needs of people in the hearing loss community.
By Cogan Schneier | December 22, 2017
A look at some of this year's most-read litigation stories out of the nation's Capitol.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Josefa Velasquez | December 21, 2017
The New York Law Journal takes a look back at 2017 and reviews the highlights and lowlights of the year in Albany, exclusive of state court rulings.
By Josefa Velasquez | December 20, 2017
The DFS posted on its website Tuesday night that it would delay enforcing a certain section of the regulation that deals with prohibition on inducements for future title insurance business and permitted expenses.
By Kristen Rasmussen | December 20, 2017
The Trump administration, House Republicans and a coalition of Democratic state attorneys general have settled their lawsuit over the legality of insurer subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. The settlement states that the parties agree that a trial judge's ruling that the House had standing to challenge the payments remains but does not “control” decisions in future litigation over this issue, clearing the way for the states' separate lawsuit.
By Josefa Velasquez | December 19, 2017
Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks announced on Tuesday the appointments of four administrative judges in New York City.
By Zack Needles | December 14, 2017
When tasked with arguing a complicated issue of statutory construction before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, a law firm might call upon its most seasoned appellate lawyer and a small army of associates to spend countless hours poring over case law and legislative history using state-of-the-art of legal research software. Shannon McGrath, a mother of three from Pittsburgh with a nursing degree and no background in the law, used her smartphone.
By C. Ryan Barber | December 14, 2017
"We are 5-0 against the Trump administration because they often fail to follow the law when taking executive action," the Washington state attorney general said in a statement that vowed swift legal action.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. Dannunzio | December 14, 2017
A federal appeals court has ordered a federal judge to explain why he decided that minor political parties in Pennsylvania should be required to gather a certain number of signatures from a specific number of counties in order to get their candidates on the ballot.
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