Ben Bedell

October 21, 2014 | Commercial Litigation Insider

For the second time this year, a shareholder derivative case against Citigroup's directors that alleged they should be held personally liable for losses stemming from the bank's misstatement of LIBOR has been rejected by the Commercial Division.

By Ben Bedell

3 minute read

October 21, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Facebook on Monday sued DLA Piper and three other law firms alleging they "knew or should have known" that the claim made by their client, Paul Ceglia, that he owned half of Facebook was a fraud.

By Ben Bedell

2 minute read

October 20, 2014 | New York Law Journal

New York State's Division of Human Rights has been ordered to pay legal fees to a New York City co-op for botching a disability discrimination claim brought by a tenant threatened with eviction over her pit bull, "Rosie".

By Ben Bedell

3 minute read

October 17, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Asked why she was stepping down, Appellate Division, First Department, Justice Helen Freedman quipped that she was following another longtime player into retirement. "When Derek Jeter said he was ready to move on to something new, I had to consider whether I was too," she said.

By Ben Bedell

6 minute read

October 16, 2014 | New York Law Journal

What started as an unlawful police pursuit in a public housing project eventually turned into a proper arrest, a state court judge has ruled.

By Ben Bedell

4 minute read

October 14, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Justice Dominic Massaro said Wilson Rodriguez, who was convicted of murder in 1994, had filed four previous §440 motions, plus a direct appeal, two coram nobis attacks on his appellate counsel, and a federal habeas corpus petition, and that further §440 motions could not be filed without court permission.

By Ben Bedell

1 minute read

October 14, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A claim by owners of a condominium that they were illegally locked out of their apartment was rejected by a Manhattan Housing Court judge who noted that the apartment was in foreclosure and their eviction was inevitable.

By Ben Bedell

3 minute read

October 08, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Acting Justice Joseph A. Zayas cited the fact the defendant was 15 when the robbery was allegedly committed, had no prior arrests, had only a secondary role, and—although he brandished what looked like a firearm—was armed with what turned out to be an unloaded BB gun.

By Ben Bedell

4 minute read