Craig A Landy

June 15, 2021 | New York Law Journal

The New York Court of Appeals' 4-3 split decision in 'The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York v. D'Agostino Supermarkets' called into doubt the predictability of the courts' treatment of what most considered a rock-solid contractual term: liquidated damages.

By Craig A. Landy

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November 26, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Craig A. Landy, a partner at Peckar & Abramson, writes that while the law of force majeure in general commercial transactions in New York has remained settled for more than two decades, the same cannot be said for the application of such provisions to construction contracts.

By Craig A. Landy

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April 23, 2002 | New York Law Journal

N EW YORK HAS long committed itself to insuring that the poor have equal access to justice. Indeed, more than 80 years before the U.S. Supreme Court`s landmark 1963 decision in Gideon v. Wainwright established an indigent criminal defendant`s federal constitutional right to counsel in felony cases, New York State law recognized that children and indigent adults charged with serious crimes have a right to counsel. In 1881, the Legislature directed courts to appoint private counsel on a pro bono basis for unr

By Craig A. Landy

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