Andrew Denney

February 27, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Beyond dealing a major rebuke to New York City Council leadership, the Appellate Division, Second Department's recent ruling that a local law giving noncitizens the right to vote protects the rights of other minorities who played by the rules and would have had their votes diluted by the votes of noncitizens, a Law Journal columnist writes.

By Roger Bennet Adler

3 minute read

February 27, 2024 | New York Law Journal

This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decision editors. 

By ALM Staff

2 minute read

February 26, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Spencer Fisher has distinguished himself as a foremost expert on the city's charter and its administrative codes, though he has had a hand in the development of city initiatives that might look more familiar to everyday New Yorkers.

By Andrew Denney

2 minute read

February 26, 2024 | New York Law Journal

A Nassau County judge recounts a exchange in which "his" judge—the judge he spent his clerkship with as a young lawyer—wielded his "rapier" wit to disarm a fellow jurist and got a room "doubled over with laughter."

By Timothy Driscoll

4 minute read

February 26, 2024 | New York Law Journal

A 26-year-old man allegedly kills a young woman in New York City. He flees to Maricopa County, Arizona to avoid his arrest and where several days later…

By Joel Cohen and Bennett L. Gershman

5 minute read

February 25, 2024 | New York Law Journal

The plaintiffs argue that housing courts routinely violate provisions of the state's real property laws that allow for summary proceedings in eviction matters which were originally designed "as the affordable and expeditious alternative to actions in equity seeking ejectment," but which "have been transformed into an inefficient system tilted decidedly against the protection of landowner's rights to their property."

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read

February 25, 2024 | New York Law Journal

The head of New York State's domestic violence prevention office responds to a recent Law Journal column that she said was written without due diligence on the part of the authors.

By Kelli Owens

4 minute read

February 23, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Former President Donald Trump will soon be tried in Manhattan for using campaign funds to pay for a woman's silence over an extramarital affair. It might turn out to be "the most followed criminal trial in American history," Law Journal columnist Bennett Gershman writes.

By Bennett L. Gershman

7 minute read

February 22, 2024 | New York Law Journal

The law has been blocked from taking effect since the beginning of 2022 when a group of Republican voters and elected officials filed a legal challenge that blocked its implementation.

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read

February 22, 2024 | New York Law Journal

"Life is different in smaller jurisdictions. It's hard to put aside the desire to get along with and be liked by the people you see every day."

By Andrew Denney

11 minute read