Jason Grant

December 05, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Scarola Zubatov Schaffzin's Supreme Court suit based on alleged fraudulent inducement committed by former client Dynamic Credit Partners and its principal, James Finkel, will go forward after the Appellate Division, First Department ruled that "summary judgment should not have been granted to defendants."

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

December 02, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Calling a court-appointed referee's findings "well founded," the Appellate Division, First Department said that the lawyer, "over an eight-year period, submitted 1,185 fraudulent and frivolous I-360 petitions, only one of which was granted."

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

December 02, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Lebanon, Pennsylvania, doctor has agreed to settle a False Claims Act-based lawsuit that alleged he gave patients the COVID-19 vaccine, without doing more, and then billed Medicare for services that were not supported by the medical record.

By Jason Grant

2 minute read

November 30, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer

The ruling appears to settle an open question in Pennsylvania: whether the state common law notion of "scope of employment" is synonymous with an "under the color of law" finding made under the federal civil rights 1983 statute.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

November 29, 2022 | Law.com

The Michigan Supreme Court approved an increase in license fees this year for both the State Bar of Michigan and the Attorney Discipline System. The state bar cost hike was its first "funding adjustment" since 2003, and it was less than the rate of inflation, the state bar said.

By Jason Grant

2 minute read

November 29, 2022 | New York Law Journal

"We agree with the [Attorney Grievance] Committee that respondent's guilty plea and sentence to the federal crime of willful failure to collect or pay over taxes made him no longer eligible for a resignation for non-disciplinary reasons," wrote the Appellate Division, First Department court.

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

November 22, 2022 | New York Law Journal

The effect of the First Department's decision is that a seven-count indictment against the defendant, based in part on him allegedly forging deeds and using them as exhibits in real property actions as part of a fraud scheme targeting the elderly, has been dismissed.

By Jason Grant

6 minute read

November 22, 2022 | Law.com

According to an "Advisory Note" from the court, the second rule change serves "to clarify that Bar Counsel may provide a law enforcement agency with information relevant to a complaint alleging criminal conduct on the part of an attorney."

By Jason Grant

3 minute read

November 22, 2022 | Law.com

"More and more, opioid addiction impacts our friends, neighbors, and loved ones," said Nick Brown, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington. "These grant funds from the Justice Department are for locally designed programs to help with the addiction crisis."

By Jason Grant

2 minute read

November 19, 2022 | Law.com

The dispute between Ironworks Development and Truist centers on claims that in 2021 the bank didn't properly process its application for a second-round PPP loan, causing it not to collect a $976,896.24 loan that under the program's terms would likely have been forgiven.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read