Andrew Denney

November 20, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Immigrant advocates have filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against the Nassau County Police Department arguing that its policy for holding prisoners who are targets of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers is unlawful.

By Andrew Denney |

3 minute read

November 17, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The United States and other Western countries in recent years have taken a tougher approach to a worldwide refugee crisis that has grown to affect 65 million people, the greatest number displaced from their homelands since the wake of World War II.

By Andrew Denney

7 minute read

November 16, 2017 | New York Law Journal

After six days of deliberation, the corruption trial against Norman Seabrook, the powerful former head of New York City's corrections officers union, ended with the jury deadlocked and the court declaring a mistrial.

By Andrew Denney |

4 minute read

November 16, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas' office was thwarted Thursday in its bid to challenge a judge's order requiring it to turn over documents related to a drunken-driving case, a ruling of first impression that could require New York prosecutors to turn over millions of additional pages of discovery.

By Andrew Denney |

6 minute read

November 15, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A Bronx jury in a wrongful death case awarded $31 million to the family of an elderly woman who bled to death after allegedly receiving an incorrect heart procedure, though the award was capped at $2.9 million as part of a high-low agreement.

By Andrew Denney |

11 minute read

November 14, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A federal jury in Manhattan awarded on Tuesday a $2.2 million verdict to the family of a mentally disturbed man who was shot and killed in his home by New York City police officers in 2012.

By Andrew Denney |

4 minute read

November 14, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Kushner Cos. has been hit with another lawsuit regarding Jared Kushner's conduct as a landlord, this time accusing him of charging market-rate rents to tenants of an apartment building in Brooklyn that was supposed to be rent-stabilized.

By Andrew Denney |

3 minute read

November 13, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A Queens lawyer was able to beat federal charges that he was involved in a scheme to defraud millions from General Motors but continues to fight state charges that he neglected to file his income taxes for three consecutive years.

By Andrew Denney |

3 minute read

November 13, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Randall Eng, the presiding justice for the Appellate Division, Second Department, who is retiring from the bench at the end of the year, is a man of firsts.

By Andrew Denney |

6 minute read

November 09, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The $5.9 million settlement that the U.S. government reached in May with a firm allegedly tied with a massive $230 million heist from the Russian Treasury may hang in the balance as the government moves to enforce the agreement.

By Andrew Denney |

8 minute read