Andrew Denney

June 13, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The appeals court's ruling affirms a finding last year by U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet of the Southern District of New York that long-range acoustic devices are on par with potentially harmful weapons such as flash-bang and concussion grenades.

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read

June 12, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The case was the first and only time that the Attorney General's Office has brought charges against a DA since Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order in 2015 giving the attorney general the authority to act as a special prosecutor in cases where police cause the death of an unarmed civilian.

By Andrew Denney

3 minute read

June 12, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The New York Court of Appeals has pared down claims brought by the state Attorney General's Office in its $11 billion suit against Credit Suisse, which it accused of misleading investors about the risks of purchasing residential mortgage-backed securities in the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis.

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read

June 11, 2018 | New York Law Journal

Finding that qualified immunity has evolved to the point where it can protect police officers who intentionally flout constitutional rights, a federal judge in Brooklyn declined to grant it to four police officers who broke into a man's house without a warrant while responding to a child abuse report that turned out to be false.

By Andrew Denney

5 minute read

June 11, 2018 | New York Law Journal

A former Capital Region town justice and lawyer pleaded guilty on Monday to working with a financial adviser to bilk about $11.8 million from trust funds that they were responsible for overseeing.

By Andrew Denney

2 minute read

June 11, 2018 | New York Law Journal

A judge has ordered an art dealer to turn over a pair of paintings looted by Nazis from an Austrian Jewish entertainer in the 1930s to a New York City auction house, and upbraided the dealer for infringing on the property rights of the entertainer's heirs.

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read

June 08, 2018 | New York Law Journal

An administrative law judge said a controversial law allowing law enforcement agencies to keep disciplinary records secret, a law whose repeal is a current front-burner topic in the New York Legislature, can't be used to shroud any mention of the disciplinary matter.

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read

June 07, 2018 | New York Law Journal

In a ruling that advocates say could open Uber Technologies Inc. up to additional litigation over providing service to disabled people, a New York state court judge in Brooklyn found that the ride-sharing company's arbitration clause was too ambiguous to move a disabled woman's suit against the company into arbitration.

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read

June 07, 2018 | New York Law Journal

Delilah Torres, 42, was convicted of first-degree offering a false instrument for filing, a class E felony, according to a release from the Westchester County District Attorney's Office.

By Andrew Denney

2 minute read

June 06, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer

Among the questions that have arisen for observers as pretrial litigation gets underway is whether the prosecution will move to present testimony on uncharged, prior bad acts from women who say they have been sexually assaulted by Weinstein other than the two alleged victims in the case.

By Andrew Denney

5 minute read