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October 20, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Appellate Division Review columnists E. Leo Milonas and Andrew C. Smith highlight two insurance law decisions addressing issues of first impression, as well as a case finding that pistol permit holders' names and addresses are public records and subject to disclosure of identity under the Freedom of Information Law absent individualized exceptions.

By E. Leo Milonas and Andrew C. Smith

17 minute read

July 15, 2016 | New York Law Journal

In their Appellate Division Review, E. Leo Milonas and Andrew C. Smith review recent decisions on satisfying the "demand" requirement for a derivative shareholder suit, the appraisal of shares of a minority partner who has wrongfully dissolved a partnership, parole considerations for persons who were juveniles at the time they committed their crimes, a state agency's mandate to investigate reports of neglect at a care facility, and more.

By E. Leo Milonas and Andrew C. Smith

24 minute read

April 15, 2016 | New York Law Journal

In their Appellate Division Review, E. Leo Milonas and Andrew C. Smith highlight some of the leading decisions from the first quarter of 2016 involving dissolving foreign corporations, pharmacists' duty of care, extending orders of protection, affirmative covenants, and staring at police officers.

By E. Leo Milonas and Andrew C. Smith

22 minute read

January 25, 2016 | New York Law Journal

In their Appellate Division Review, E. Leo Milonas and Andrew C. Smith highlight some of the four departments' opinions from the busy last quarter of 2015, including holdings on secret videotaping of an independent medical examination, when a "wrongful birth" claim accrues, when the fiduciary exception to the attorney-client privilege applies in the corporate context, and more.

By E. Leo Milonas and Andrew C. Smith

12 minute read

October 16, 2015 | New York Law Journal

In their Appellate Division Review, E. Leo Milonas and Andrew C. Smith summarize significant decisions involving at-will employment, sentencing, apportionment of damages, conversion and unjust enrichment, new DMV rules on drunken driving, due process for civil confinement of sex offenders and more.

By E. Leo Milonas and Andrew C. Smith

11 minute read

July 17, 2015 | New York Law Journal

In their Appellate Division Review, E. Leo Milonas and Andrew C. Smith discuss recent decisions involving New York courts' long-arm jurisdiction in disputes brought against foreign defendants under a contract governed by foreign law, the three-year moratorium on tax certiorari proceedings, voting rights of part-time town residents, judicial retirement and more.

By E. Leo Milonas and Andrew C. Smith

11 minute read

July 16, 2015 | New York Law Journal

In their Appellate Division Review, E. Leo Milonas and Andrew C. Smith discuss recent decisions involving New York courts' long-arm jurisdiction in disputes brought against foreign defendants under a contract governed by foreign law, the three-year moratorium on tax certiorari proceedings, voting rights of part-time town residents, judicial retirement and more.

By E. Leo Milonas and Andrew C. Smith

11 minute read

April 17, 2015 | New York Law Journal

In their Appellate Division Review, E. Leo Milonas and Andrew C. Smith write: As the last shovel-full of snow melts from our memories, we review some of the quarter's leading decisions rendered by the state's intermediate appellate judges, during which the Appellate Division justices exercised measured deference to trustees, administrative agencies and the Legislature, while also expanding access to the courts to redress commercial and tortious wrongs.

By E. Leo Milonas and Andrew C. Smith

11 minute read

April 16, 2015 | New York Law Journal

In their Appellate Division Review, E. Leo Milonas and Andrew C. Smith write: As the last shovel-full of snow melts from our memories, we review some of the quarter's leading decisions rendered by the state's intermediate appellate judges, during which the Appellate Division justices exercised measured deference to trustees, administrative agencies and the Legislature, while also expanding access to the courts to redress commercial and tortious wrongs.

By E. Leo Milonas and Andrew C. Smith

11 minute read

January 16, 2015 | New York Law Journal

In their Appellate Division Review, E. Leo Milonas and Frederick A. Brodie summarize decisions from the last quarter of 2014 involving a shareholder challenge to a fashion house's going-private transaction, the common interest doctrine, the unauthorized use of a credit card number, the application of the "fugitive disentitlement doctrine" in child support cases, the the writ of habeas corpus for animals, and more.

By E. Leo Milonas and Frederick A. Brodie

11 minute read