Andrew Denney

September 07, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The Staten Island judicial system was thrown into upheaval Thursday following reports that a court clerk surreptitiously recorded conversations with judges and turned them over to investigators, a development that preceded an announcement that two administrative judges resigned their posts.

By Andrew Denney

7 minute read

September 06, 2017 | New York Law Journal

In a joint appearance as candidates before next week's Democratic primary, five of the six lawyers seeking to be elected Brooklyn district attorney sought to embrace the policies of Kenneth Thompson, who died in office last year, and distance themselves from the tainted legacy of ex-DA Charles Hynes, during whose tenure they all worked as prosecutors.

By Andrew Denney

5 minute read

September 05, 2017 | New York Law Journal

As courts remain divided over whether or not websites should be held to the same standard under the Americans with Disabilities Act as brick-and-mortar locations, companies across the country continue to get hit with lawsuits for lack of online accommodations for the disabled.

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read

August 31, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The settlement was reached as attorneys from the ACLU and other groups representing those affected by both travel bans prepare to clash with government attorneys before the U.S. Supreme Court for oral arguments over a revised travel ban released in March. 

By Andrew Denney

7 minute read

August 31, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Sanket Bulsara, who recently served as acting general counsel to the SEC, has been appointed as a magistrate judge in the Eastern District of New York and is the first South Asian American to serve on the bench in the Second Circuit.

By Andrew Denney

7 minute read

August 30, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Former U.S. diplomats are going to bat for the Jordan-based Arab Bank, arguing in papers filed this week with the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of affirming dismissal of a suit filed by victims of terrorist plots that they say the bank funded.

By Andrew Denney

18 minute read

August 29, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A now-corrected editorial by The New York Times erroneously linking former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to a 2011 mass shooting may have bordered on negligence, but did not constitute actual malice, a federal judge in Manhattan said in an order dismissing her defamation suit.

By Andrew Denney

9 minute read

August 29, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Under the terms of a consent decree borne of a "blood oath" undertaken 40 years ago by the surviving members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, the band's former drummer can never produce a biopic about the band's final years, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled.

By Andrew Denney

7 minute read

August 28, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Court officials are taking a deeper look at the conduct of former communications director David Bookstaver, who was fired on Aug. 17 after inadvertently dialing a New York Post reporter and admitting he hasn't been showing up for work, for possible criminal charges, according to a statement of the New York courts' inspector general.

By Andrew Denney

2 minute read

August 28, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A Commercial Division judge sitting in Westchester County has dismissed all claims by a "bitter and disappointed" former partner of a private equity firm who argued his former employer owed him more than $10 million in damages.

By Andrew Denney

9 minute read