Brian Lee

June 20, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Backers of the measure said they expect California to follow suit, and hope similar laws will be adopted nationally.

By Brian Lee

6 minute read

June 18, 2024 | New York Law Journal

The Monroe County justice's ruling was based largely on five of the 12 pregnancy center's locations in the 7th Judicial District, with no connection to Manhattan, which is hundreds of miles from the majority of the plaintiffs. Now the Fourth Department will have to decide.

By Brian Lee

3 minute read

June 18, 2024 | New York Law Journal

A judge since 1996, New Lebanon Town Justice Nevers resigned effective May 30 while agreeing to never seek or accept judicial office in the future. The commission accepted that stipulation.

By Brian Lee

2 minute read

June 18, 2024 | New York Law Journal

The New York Court of Appeals rejected Trump's "automatic" appeal "upon the ground that no substantial constitutional question is directly involved."

By Brian Lee

3 minute read

June 17, 2024 | New York Law Journal

The Appellate Division, Fourth Department explored the possibility that a May ruling by a Republican trial court judge from Livingston County, excluding the Equal Rights Amendment from the November ballot on procedural grounds, was in error.

By Brian Lee

4 minute read

June 17, 2024 | New York Law Journal

A former town justice had been accused of sending the woman inappropriate text messages unrelated to court business, and when she told him to stop, he retaliated by trying to have her fired, the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct said in a statement.

By Brian Lee

1 minute read

June 14, 2024 | New York Law Journal

The Office of Court Administration pushed back, saying court leaders are prioritizing these complicated cases that often involve decades-old allegations.

By Brian Lee

4 minute read

June 14, 2024 | New York Law Journal

The complaint accuses the city of unlawfully shuttering more than 200 businesses in the past six weeks under the state government's recently enacted SMOKEOUT Act.

By Brian Lee

4 minute read

June 13, 2024 | New York Law Journal

The association's president from 1987-88, Maryann Saccomando Freedman was also the first state bar leader to visit all 62 counties to gain a broader perspective of the bar's needs.

By Brian Lee

6 minute read

June 12, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Pryor Cashman has said in court filings that Newburgh's application of zoning rules is a smokescreen for attempting to punish his client for exercising its constitutional and statutory rights to house migrants.

By Brian Lee

4 minute read