Jason Grant

June 13, 2022 | New York Law Journal

The firm "represents clients whose freedom, livelihood, dignity or fundamental rights have been jeopardized, including clients who have been the victim of systemic abuse," said partner Benjamin White in a statement.

By Jason Grant

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June 10, 2022 | New York Law Journal

"The request for a delay of the 2022 assembly primary elections is denied in any event, because the redrawing and implementing of a new assembly map before a 2022 primary election ... is, at this late date, no longer feasible," the ruling said.

By Jason Grant

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June 09, 2022 | New York Law Journal

"As a junior associate, she inherited the responsibility of the 30 filings once a senior associate left the firm," the Appellate Division, First Department court noted in arriving at its suspension punishment for the lawyer.

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

June 09, 2022 | New York Law Journal

"The constitutional amendment passed by two separately elected state Legislatures and approved by the voters in [2014] was supposed to 'fix' the hyper-partisan decennial redistricting process," a bar association said in a news release, before adding that the "supposed" solution was "a failure."

By Jason Grant

3 minute read

June 07, 2022 | New York Law Journal

"Although the Nazis confiscated Mr. Grunbaum's artworks by forcing him to sign a power of attorney to his wife, who was herself later murdered by the Nazis, the act was involuntary," a New York state court judge wrote in 2018. Lawyers for an art dealer who has been forced to turn over Egon Schiele paintings worth millions of dollars, say New York state court rulings in the matter are contradicted by a federal ruling.

By Jason Grant

8 minute read

June 02, 2022 | New York Law Journal

The court wrote that "evidence was designed to show that [Weinstein] did not see the women as romantic partners or friends, and that his interest in them and their talents was feigned."

By Jason Grant

6 minute read

May 27, 2022 | New York Law Journal

"I have a deep passion to honor equal justice for all," said Wallach during an interview. "I hope that this position will give me that privilege."

By Jason Grant

6 minute read

May 25, 2022 | New York Law Journal

The ruling, hailed as a victory by Attorney General Letitia James, comes one day after yet another mass shooting has shaken the United States, this one the killing of 19 children and two teachers by a lone gunman rampaging through a Texas school.

By Jason Grant

6 minute read

May 25, 2022 | New York Law Journal

The former patient's "posts concerning the plastic surgery performed upon her … qualify as an exercise of her constitutional right of free speech and a comment on a matter of legitimate public concern and public interest," wrote the Appellate Division, First Department court in a detailed opinion.

By Jason Grant

7 minute read

May 19, 2022 | New York Law Journal

A preamble to the new rule, which heavily amends the Commercial Division's Rule 11 on discovery, states that "it is important that counsel's discovery requests, including depositions, are both proportional and reasonable in light of the complexity of the case and the amount of proof that is required for the cause of action."

By Jason Grant

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