Andrew Denney

November 09, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota, who was charged more than three weeks ago with allegedly covering up a former police chief's assault of an incarcerated suspect, says he will resign on Friday, according to his office.

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4 minute read

November 08, 2017 | New York Law Journal

New York voters overwhelmingly approved on Tuesday a measure giving judges the power to claw back pension benefits from public officials convicted of feloniously misusing the powers of their offices, but reactions from the legal community were mixed as to whether the change will be effective.

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5 minute read

November 08, 2017 | New York Law Journal

In a first-of-its-kind jury trial that explored the question of whether graffiti is considered art, a jury found that a developer broke the law when…

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8 minute read

November 07, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A Brooklyn jury in a medical malpractice case awarded more than $26 million to a 7-year-old girl who was born deaf and who suffers from other health problems, issues that her attorney argued could have been mitigated with earlier monitoring of changes in her mother's cervix.

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13 minute read

November 06, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The trial of Reza Zarrab, a Turkish gold trader accused of evading U.S. sanctions on Iran, is scheduled to open just weeks from now, but he has become a “stealth defendant” in the case, his co-defendant's lawyer said Monday.

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4 minute read

November 06, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Wayne Isaacs, a New York police officer who shot and killed a man in Brooklyn during a traffic dispute while off-duty, was found not guilty Monday on charges of second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter.

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3 minute read

November 03, 2017 | New York Law Journal

U.S. District Judge William Pauley III denied motions by Prevezon to grant immigration parole to Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer whose June 2016 meeting with Trump campaign officials raised concerns about Russian influence in the presidential election.

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8 minute read

November 03, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A Brooklyn jury has handed up a $10.5 million verdict to a woman whose left leg was amputated after she was struck by an out-of-control livery driver…

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2 minute read

November 02, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota, who was indicted just over a week ago on charges that he covered up a police chief's beating of a suspect, remains in office despite having pledged to resign.

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4 minute read

November 01, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Workers for a water-filtration system sales company should have been compensated for their time for answering calls from home and being on-call to assist other workers, a federal judge said in a ruling.

By Andrew Denney

2 minute read