Jeff Storey

August 23, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Supreme Court Justice R. Bruce Cozzens ruled that the controversial payroll mobility tax "does not serve a substantial state interest" and therefore needed home rule messages, which allow the state to engage in local matters.

By Jeff Storey

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February 22, 2012 | New York Law Journal

The First Department has declined to grant a stay that would have prevented New York City from cutting off rental subsidies to about 8,000 formerly homeless families while it considers an appeal filed by the tenants.

By Jeff Storey

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July 10, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Ronald Younkins, head of operations for the Office of Court Administration, wrote to Diana on June 6 that the county was "at risk" of sanctions unless it took immediate steps to provide suitable space to replace what was lost when the County Government Center in Goshen closed in September in the wake of flooding.

By Jeff Storey

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January 10, 2012 | New York Law Journal

The First Department concluded that the New York City Transit Authority had not shown the reasonableness of its standard that the gap between the car and platform should be no more than six inches.

By Jeff Storey

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June 06, 2013 | New York Law Journal

A federal judge has thrown out the verdict in a police brutality case because the plaintiff promised to give his girlfriend a percentage of any winnings if she testified for him.

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January 18, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Martin E. Weisberg, formerly of Baker & McKenzie, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy to commit securities fraud just as jury selection in his trial before Eastern District Judge Nicholas Garaufis was to begin in May.

By Jeff Storey

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May 30, 2013 | New York Law Journal

William Floyd High School in Mastic Beach has captured the 2012-2013 New York State High School Mock Trial Tournament, concluding a months-long process during which about 300 attorneys acted as legal advisers to participating schools.

By Jeff Storey

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October 11, 2012 | New York Law Journal

An injured plaintiff did not assume the risk of shooting off a water slide, traveling the entire length of a 50-foot splash pond in an inflated inner tube, colliding with the stairs at the other end of the pool and vaulting out of the tube onto the cement surrounding the pool, an appellate court ruled yesterday.

By Jeff Storey

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July 11, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Nicholas Turner - since 2007 a managing director of the Rockefeller Foundation and before that a vice president and chief program officer at Vera - will become the institute's fifth director in August.

By Jeff Storey

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April 16, 2013 | Law.com

The high court yesterday declined to hear a challenge to a strict New York law requiring residents to show "proper cause" before being issued a license to carry a handgun in a public place.

By Jeff Storey

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