Andrew Denney

January 19, 2018 | New York Law Journal

Preet Bharara, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, was the guest of honor—or the subject of good-natured ridicule—on Thursday night at the New York City Bar Association's Twelfth Night at the City Bar.

By Andrew Denney |

2 minute read

January 18, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The judge presiding over long-running litigation regarding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks questioned during oral arguments on Thursday if Saudi Arabia could be sued under a recently passed U.S. statute allowing parties to sue foreign governments for acts of terrorism.

By Andrew Denney |

3 minute read

January 18, 2018 | New York Law Journal

A Manhattan woman who was seriously injured in 2011 when she was hit with a shopping cart that two adolescents pushed from the fourth level of a shopping center may continue to pursue claims against the property owner and the security firm on watch, a judge ruled.

By Andrew Denney |

4 minute read

January 17, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The man accused of carrying out a deadly truck attack on a Lower Manhattan bike path on Halloween that left eight dead would take a guilty plea to avoid a death penalty prosecution, his defense team has said in a letter to the court.

By Andrew Denney |

3 minute read

January 17, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The original recovery awarded by a Bronx jury had been $12.6 million.

By Andrew Denney |

2 minute read

January 16, 2018 | New York Law Journal

New York State was unsuccessful in its effort to dismiss per se defamation claims by a woman whose stock photo was used in an ad campaign that falsely…

By Andrew Denney |

3 minute read

January 16, 2018 | New York Law Journal

Attorneys for a group of New York counties that are suing opioid manufacturers and distributors in state court are being allowed to proceed with discovery despite a pending motion to dismiss filed by the defendants.

By Andrew Denney |

3 minute read

January 12, 2018 | New York Law Journal

Ravi Ragbir, an immigration advocate whose arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday touched off protests in Manhattan, has been placing his hopes that he can fight deportation on his effort to vacate a 17-year-old wire fraud conviction.

By Andrew Denney |

3 minute read

January 12, 2018 | New York Law Journal

A controversial Brooklyn judge who presided over a consumer debt part where he was accused in media reports of playing favorites with defendants has been relieved of his post in the debt court but still presides over a foreclosure part in state Supreme Court.

By Andrew Denney |

3 minute read

January 12, 2018 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Father Charles Many molested Andrew Aspinwall when he was an altar boy in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

By Andrew Denney |

2 minute read