Jason Grant

August 18, 2022 | New York Law Journal

In a news release that linked the "Assurance of Discontinuance" agreement, James pointed to the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019, which "outlawed efforts to deny housing to renters with a history of landlord-tenant court cases."

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

August 17, 2022 | New York Law Journal

The Appellate Division, Second Department deemed the eight charges, which included misappropriation of client funds for the attorney's own use, "established," as the lawyer defaulted in the ethics matter.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

August 16, 2022 | New York Law Journal

The ongoing suit that has led to the contempt finding against the DOC, and now imposed fines, was launched in 2021 by several inmates who are jointly represented by The Legal Aid Society of New York, the Brooklyn Defender Services and the Am Law 100 law firm Milbank.

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

August 12, 2022 | Law.com

"Whether remote classes were an adequate substitute for in-person instruction" after the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted BU's spring 2020 semester "goes to the issue of damages, not breach," wrote the federal judge, who also found that damages issues must go forward based on other reasons.

By Jason Grant

6 minute read

August 12, 2022 | New York Law Journal

The suit has attracted recent media attention. In May, musician Chapman Roberts, a Black man who has worked in show business for more than 50 years, put out a press release in which he framed his action as a "David-and-Goliath lawsuit," and said, "This is a precedent-setting case seeped in the reparations furor that has been brewing in this country and globally for decades."

By Jason Grant

6 minute read

August 11, 2022 | New York Law Journal

A state appeals court has reversed a Brooklyn Supreme Court's dismissal of a medical malpractice lawsuit against Mount Sinai Hospital, ruling that the trial court "inappropriately relied upon the plaintiff's general delay in prosecuting the action" and that dismissing the suit amounted to as "drastic remedy" only deserved where there 's a clear failure to comply with discovery demands.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

August 10, 2022 | New York Law Journal

A series of four New York State Bar Association-sponsored resolutions, ranging from a call for law enforcement to have additional time to conduct gun-purchaser background checks to reaffirming that law practices should not be owned by nonlawyers, have been adopted by the American Bar Association.

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

August 09, 2022 | Daily Business Review

A Florida appeals court has reversed a trial court's rejection of a convict's ineffective-assistance grounds as relief from his conviction, saying that a judge's "subsequent explanation" regarding his true sentence-length exposure could not "cure" his lawyer's earlier wrongful advice.

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

August 05, 2022 | New York Law Journal

The debate between Legal Aid and Mayor Eric Adams' office, which is echoed by a range of officials, advocacy groups, lawyers and criminal-justice experts, is not only a war of words. It is a war over data—which data to use, how data should be interpreted, and what it may or may not show.

By Jason Grant

7 minute read

August 04, 2022 | New York Law Journal

"We agree that once ballots have been cast and election day is passed, no new laws or regulations can be enacted to disturb the choice of the voters. … That principle, clearly expressed in the pending legislation, is critical to the rule of law and to a free and fair procedure for electing the president and vice-president," said the City Bar Association.

By Jason Grant

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