Andrew Denney

July 19, 2018 | New York Law Journal

As part of a broad effort to change how police confront civilians with mental illness, a group of attorneys has sued the New York City Police Department to obtain raw body camera footage from the fatal shooting last year of a man suffering from an apparent mental health crisis.

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read

July 18, 2018 | New York Law Journal

New York City Councilman Rory Lancman, a Democrat who represents Fresh Meadows, Jamaica and other sections of eastern Queens, said he is looking at a run for Queens district attorney.

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read

July 18, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The City Council passed a bill that would require Airbnb to report the names and addresses of its hosts to the city's Office of Special Enforcement; failure to comply could be punishable by fines ranging from $5,000 to $25,000.

By Andrew Denney

5 minute read

July 18, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The New York City government has agreed to put up $20.8 million in back pay to settle a discrimination suit filed by city-employed registered nurses and midwives who had to wait several years longer than workers in predominantly male positions to retire with full pensions.

By Andrew Denney

3 minute read

July 17, 2018 | New York Law Journal

A New York judge presiding over the state courts' multicounty opioid litigation in Suffolk County brought on behalf of a coalition of New York counties, which is being closely watched by courts in other jurisdictions around the country, has refused to toss claims against drug distributors.

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read

July 17, 2018 | New York Law Journal

A federal judge in Brooklyn has awarded more than $1.34 million to a woman who brought a sexual harassment suit against Evgeny Freidman, New York City's so-called “Taxi King” and a former business associate of President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen.

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read

July 16, 2018 | New York Law Journal

David Oddo, a name partner at Okun, Oddo & Babat, is taking the reins of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association just as the cards in his view have “become increasingly stacked” against patients and consumers.

By Andrew Denney

7 minute read

July 16, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The caretaker for a businessman who married him in his final days forfeited her statutory share of his estate because she knowingly married him while he was mentally incapacitated, a Surrogate's Court judge found.

By Andrew Denney

6 minute read

July 13, 2018 | New York Law Journal

Just as riding the Long Island Rail Road commuter train requires a ticket, bringing tort or contract claims against it typically requires a claim notice.

By Andrew Denney

3 minute read

July 12, 2018 | New York Law Journal

Three Brooklyn Supreme Court judges have been transferred to new posts in other boroughs for, according to sources, falling behind on their caseloads, not holding enough trial days and spending too much time away from the bench.

By Andrew Denney

3 minute read