Andrew Denney

June 22, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Settlement specialists Kenneth Feinberg and Camille Biros, known for their work on relief funds for victims of the Sept. 11, 2011 terrorist attacks and other calamities, will administer a compensation fund for victims of sexual abuse by priests and deacons in the Diocese of Brooklyn.

By Andrew Denney

3 minute read

June 21, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The new case management order for New York City's asbestos courts, released Tuesday and set to take effect on July 20, contains provisions that both defense and plaintiffs' attorneys can either support or loathe.

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read

June 20, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Lawyers for a man charged last year with planting bombs in Manhattan and New Jersey say prosecutors shouldn't be allowed to bring in an expert witness on foreign terrorist organizations to testify in the case as it would serve to inflame and prejudice the jury.

By Andrew Denney

3 minute read

June 19, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Some in the legal community can neither confirm nor deny that the New York City Police Department's policy of using the so-called Glomar doctrine as an exemption to open records requests is a good thing. But all can agree that the CIA-coined nonanswer to requests for information that was typically used in situations involving matters of national security has seen wider use in recent years.

By Andrew Denney

19 minute read

June 19, 2017 | New York Law Journal

New York lawyer Steven Donziger has been foiled in his bid to enforce a multibillion-dollar judgment against Chevron over allegations of environmental damage in Ecuador, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari from an appeals court decision to block its execution.

By Andrew Denney

2 minute read

June 16, 2017 | New York Law Journal

New York City has agreed to pay more than $1.3 million to 14 Department of Transportation employees who say their supervisors racially discriminated against them for almost a decade by addressing them with racial epithets, excluding them from preferred assignments and passing over them for promotion.

By Andrew Denney

2 minute read

June 15, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A Brooklyn man who masqueraded as an attorney for several years and defrauded tens of thousands of dollars from unwitting clients has been sentenced to six months in prison.

By Andrew Denney

2 minute read

June 05, 2017 | New York Law Journal

In a ruling that may provide a boost to the U.S. government in its forfeiture suit to seize Manhattan property partially owned by a nonprofit with alleged ties to Iran, a federal judge has denied a bid to preclude an audio recording of the nonprofit's former accountant discussing how to hide Iran's role in the ownership of the building.

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read

June 05, 2017 | New York Law Journal

An evidentiary hearing may be the best place to sort out allegations from a man serving a 35-year prison sentence for child pornography that his attorney and mother were having a sexual relationship, a federal appeals court said Monday.

By Andrew Denney

2 minute read

June 02, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Judge Jenny Rivera, the Court of Appeals' senior jurist, was appointed to the bench in 2013; the five remaining justices—all appointed in February 2015 or later—have served on average about 18 months on the state's highest court.

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read