Jeff Storey

September 01, 2016 | New York Law Journal

As U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York, Richard Hartunian is the federal government's principal litigator in an area that encompasses 32 upstate counties and has 3.2 million people. He discusses his efforts to add resources to the office's civil division and to focus on affirmative civil enforcement in areas such as healthcare, defense procurement and environmental fraud.

By Jeff Storey

26 minute read

August 24, 2016 | New York Law Journal

New York's highest court has ruled that a Democratic contender for the state Senate who registered to vote in Washington D.C. in 2014 doesn't meet the state's five-year residency requirement.

By Associated Press, Jeff Storey

4 minute read

August 04, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Michael Botein, a pioneer in the study of communications and media law who loved teaching died Wednesday at his home in South Orange, New Jersey of complications from cancer. He was 71.

By Jeff Storey

10 minute read

August 03, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Mounting an effort that spanned from Long Island to the Middle East, defense attorneys have convinced Justice Teresa Corrigan that their client could not have committed two sex crimes involving a child for which a jury had convicted him.

By Jeff Storey

8 minute read

July 14, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The Second Circuit said in March that Hector Rivas had presented a "credible" and "compelling" claim of innocence.

By Associated Press/Jeff Storey

3 minute read

July 12, 2016 | New York Law Journal

More than three years after Judge Jenny Rivera exchanged a tenured professorship at the City University of New York School of Law for a seat on the state Court of Appeals, she has been able this summer to use her teaching skills again.

By Jeff Storey

8 minute read

June 30, 2016 | New York Law Journal

An association representing the state's prosecutors is urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to veto legislation that would modify the Penal Law definitions of switchblades and gravity knives.

By Jeff Storey

3 minute read

June 29, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Owners of a recently opened restaurant shut down when the collapse of construction crane heavily damaged its building have won almost $2.5 million in settlements.

By Jeff Storey

3 minute read

June 28, 2016 | New York Law Journal

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker/Jeff Storey

4 minute read

June 17, 2016 | New York Law Journal

In the last five years, about 13 percent of the state's guardianship petitions under Article 81 of the Mental Hygiene Law—a total of 1,001 requests on behalf of "incapacitated persons"—have come from Nassau County. Justice Arthur Diamond, named earlier this year to supervise the Supreme Court part tasked with hearing such petitions, worries that he and his colleagues are confronting a crisis: the inability to pay guardians for everybody who requires one.

By Jeff Storey

20 minute read