Ben Bedell

April 25, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A unanimous First Department panel said Thursday that even though the appeal was moot, rulings of Family Court Judge Stewart Weinstein that a fetus is a "child" under New York's Family Court Act had to be dropped because they "may spawn legal consequences or be cited as precedent."

By Ben Bedell

17 minute read

April 25, 2016 | New York Law Journal

An attorney convicted on federal mortgage fraud charges lost her bid to escape disbarment Thursday when the First Department denied her request to hold a hearing on her case after she is released from prison.

By Ben Bedell

4 minute read

April 21, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A Nassau County judge has refused to enjoin a local school board and superintendent from barring news cameras from a meeting that was open to the public.

By Ben Bedell

9 minute read

April 21, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The owners of a TriBeCa penthouse were entitled to be paid at the same time they lost the use of their terrace, which had a sunken hot tub and outdoor kitchen, due to renovation of the adjacent building, the First Department said Tuesday.

By Ben Bedell

4 minute read

April 20, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A Manhattan appeals court reversed the gun possession convictions of two Harlem men Tuesday, saying the trial court had improperly admitted photos of the defendants holding guns and a Facebook message boasting about gun incidents.

By Ben Bedell

9 minute read

April 19, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A federal judge has held that a Bronx landlord "perpetrated a fraud on the court" in claiming a cell phone company's roof antenna had damaged his rental building and ordered him to pay the litigation costs incurred by T-Mobile and co-defendant Skyline Steel Fabricators & Erectors, along with an equal amount to the court.

By Ben Bedell

8 minute read

April 19, 2016 | New York Law Journal

An attorney threatened with disbarment for practicing while suspended has chosen to resign, the First Department said Tuesday in a ruling accepting his resignation.

By Ben Bedell

4 minute read

April 18, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The First Department has accepted the resignation of an attorney who acknowledged he had "engaged in one isolated and consensual improper personal encounter" with a woman he was representing in a matrimonial proceeding.

By Ben Bedell

4 minute read

April 15, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A federal judge has refused to dismiss a suit against the famed Winged Foot Golf Club alleging fraudulent conduct in its treatment of shareholders of a for-profit holding company that owns the 280-acre Westchester property.

By Ben Bedell

20 minute read

April 15, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The First Department nullified a 2013 amendment to New York Workers' Compensation Law that was challenged by the insurance industry because it retroactively imposed an additional $62 million in liabilities under the state-mandated coverage.

By Ben Bedell

6 minute read