Jason Grant

January 12, 2022 | New York Law Journal

A genetic-testing device company claimed that its former law firm, Amster Rothsteon & Ebenstein, had the obligation to independently investigate whether any prior publications about the new technology had triggered a deadline for the patent application, but the "plaintiff has not alleged that defendant was specifically directed to investigate, verify [or] report on the legitimacy of the initial publication date," said the Appellate Division, First Department court.

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

January 07, 2022 | Law.com

The consent decree, entered into in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, also terminates the Lowes' interests in 97 endangered or threatened animals seized from their park, and it affirms they have abandoned their legal rights to another 41 animals they'd kept, according to the DOJ.

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

January 06, 2022 | Law.com

"Frontier Justice's rationale for its head covering policy is pretextual insofar as the policy's goal is to exclude some Muslims from Defendants' gun range," the complaint states. The plaintiff is represented in part by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

By Jason Grant

6 minute read

January 05, 2022 | New York Law Journal

The plaintiff had claimed the firm, acting with "obsessive, irrepressible and malicious desire," helped to file and publicize a "frivolous" suit that she said falsely accused her of being a prostitute who advertised on an escort website.

By Jason Grant

8 minute read

January 04, 2022 | New York Law Journal

The court clerk and peace officer, Maribel Reveron, had asked a court to declare that the state court system violated her rights under a union collective-bargaining agreement and the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment. She also requested an order mandating she be repaid for salary missed during her suspension.

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

January 04, 2022 | New York Law Journal

"For decades, our young clients--the overwhelming majority of whom come from communities of color--have suffered significant trauma from these draconian practices," said Dawne Mitchell of The Legal Aid Society of New York, speaking of the previous minimum age of 7 for nonhomicide arrest and prosecution. Among states that have a minimum age for youth prosecution, New York state had had the second-youngest age.

By Jason Grant

3 minute read

December 30, 2021 | New York Law Journal

In the now-reinstated suit, the woman alleges that then-lawyer Robert P. Santoriella used a civil lawsuit for rape she had lodged against her ex-boyfriend as a means of demanding explicit pictures and recordings from her, making unwanted sexual advances to her, sending her his own sexually explicit photos, and making the trauma she suffered from the alleged rape even worse.

By Jason Grant

8 minute read

December 29, 2021 | Law.com

The company, Balfour Beatty Communities, operated privatized military housing communities at 21 Air Force, 18 Navy and 16 Army bases, serving tens of thousands of service members and their families, according to a DOJ news release and court documents.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

December 29, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Silvera "has enthusiastically stepped up to the plate throughout the various phases of the pandemic," said state Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks. In his new role to begin Jan. 22, Silvera will "oversee the management and day-to-day operations of one the State's busiest courts of civil jurisdiction," said Marks.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

December 28, 2021 | New York Law Journal

A veteran criminal defense and divorce lawyer who is licensed in multiple states has been publicly censured in New York after responding to a former Tennessee client's negative online review of him, including by revealing the client's health and medical information.

By Jason Grant

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