Jeff Storey

December 20, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Federal authorities say upstate assemblyman and attorney William Nojay, who shot himself in a cemetery on Sept. 9, diverted about $800,000 from a client's escrow account to his re-election campaign, a lobbyist, a car dealer and his children.

By Associated Press/Jeff Storey

4 minute read

December 12, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A spokesman for a state agency estimated that "hundreds of thousands" of people have been added to a central registry of child abuse and maltreatment since 1995, but could not readily provide a count of how many are on that list. Whatever the actual number, "so many people are caught up in this," said Maxine Ketcher of Legal Services NYC Bronx. And they can be caught up for a long time.

By Jeff Storey

21 minute read

December 12, 2016 | New York Law Journal

In an unusual defeat for the agency that maintains the state's central registry of child abuse and maltreatment, a First Department panel said the agency failed to follow proper legal standards in refusing to expunge an "indicated report" of the conduct of a mother who enlisted her 5-year-old son to shoplift clothes.

By Jeff Storey

18 minute read

December 09, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A trial judge in a murder case erroneously rejected a defense challenge for cause to a potential juror whose brother had been murdered and whose sister had been raped by a man who "took her eye out," a divided Manhattan appeals court has ruled.

By Jeff Storey

4 minute read

December 06, 2016 | New York Law Journal

On Dec. 10, 2010, Michael Dion fell into a subway platform gap at Union Square in Manhattan. Before being extricated, he was rammed 167 times by a mechanical gap filler that extends when a train pulls into the station. Represented by Jay Dankner of Dankner Millstein, Dion sued the New York City Transit Authority for negligence.

By Jeff Storey

11 minute read

November 25, 2016 | New York Law Journal

For 20 years, the New York City Family Court begged for more judges, all the while shouldering steadily increasing burdens. Intense lobbying eventually helped persuade the Legislature to create additional judgeships, but at least some observers wonder whether the help will be enough to keep on any even keel a busy court buffeted by emotional issues.

By Jeff Storey

10 minute read

October 27, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Shortly after a recent gala celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Center for Constitutional rights, received word that the U.S. Supreme Court is going to take another look at a favorable ruling it obtained in a case it has been pursuing for more than 14 years. The Supreme Court is not unfamiliar territory for the center, which bills itself as a "non-profit legal and educational organization committed to the creative use of law as a force for social change."

By Jeff Storey

25 minute read

October 21, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Right now, most indigent homicide defendants in New York City are defended by individual attorneys who are vetted by appellate court committees and appointed by trial judges. Starting in July, the city apparently plans to give institutional providers first crack at the homicide cases.

By Jeff Storey

13 minute read

October 18, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A state judge has upheld approval of an annexation bid that would allow an insular ultra-Orthodox Jewish village to greatly expand, an action opponents fear would attract a flood of new residents and overwhelm the rural character of the surrounding area.

By Jeff Storey

25 minute read

September 16, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Preparing to swear in 71 men and women as lawyers, Justice Peter Tom pointed out an empty seat in the ornate courtroom of the Appellate Division, First Department. Tom, the court's acting presiding justice, said that Kelly Beth Cosby, the young lawyer who would have occupied that seat, did not “absent herself voluntarily.”

By Jeff Storey

15 minute read