Jeffrey A Cohen

July 09, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

On June 27, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California rendered a multibillion-dollar verdict in favor of restaurant/bar owners and individual customers and against the National Football League, related to the NFL's Sunday Ticket.

By Jeffrey A. Cohen

7 minute read

May 21, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

A college scholarship certainly has value; however, student-athletes have pushed for more, using the court system for the past 15 years to advance their cause, and the entire sports landscape is still trying to figure out what is legal and what balance to strike.

By Jeffrey A. Cohen

6 minute read

July 30, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Thomas A. Dickerson and Jeffrey A. Cohen discuss the Court of Appeals' recent decision on New York City's Taxi of Tomorrow plan, which would require cabs being retired to be replaced with a specific Nissan model, along with the city's response to the growth of car-sharing companies Uber and Lyft.

By Thomas A. Dickerson and Jeffrey A. Cohen

9 minute read

July 29, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Thomas A. Dickerson and Jeffrey A. Cohen discuss the Court of Appeals' recent decision on New York City's Taxi of Tomorrow plan, which would require cabs being retired to be replaced with a specific Nissan model, along with the city's response to the growth of car-sharing companies Uber and Lyft.

By Thomas A. Dickerson and Jeffrey A. Cohen

9 minute read

March 03, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Thomas A. Dickerson and Jeffrey A. Cohen write: Each year more than 10 million consumers purchase a cruise ship vacation departing from and returning to a U.S. port located primarily in the State of Florida. But while they may travel on 21st-century cruise ships, their rights and remedies for injuries sustained on or off the cruise ship are governed, in many cases, by 19th-century legal principles.

By Thomas A. Dickerson and Jeffrey A. Cohen

10 minute read

March 02, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Thomas A. Dickerson and Jeffrey A. Cohen write: Each year more than 10 million consumers purchase a cruise ship vacation departing from and returning to a U.S. port located primarily in the State of Florida. But while they may travel on 21st-century cruise ships, their rights and remedies for injuries sustained on or off the cruise ship are governed, in many cases, by 19th-century legal principles.

By Thomas A. Dickerson and Jeffrey A. Cohen

10 minute read

April 19, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Thomas A. Dickerson and Jeffrey A. Cohen, associate justices of the Appellate Division, Second Department, review a recent case where the Court of Appeals clarified that justifiable reliance is not an element of a false advertising claim, overruling a line of Appellate Division cases dating to 1986.

By Thomas A. Dickerson and Jeffrey A. Cohen

12 minute read

December 28, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Thomas A. Dickerson and Jeffrey A. Cohen, associate justices of the Second Department, and Kenneth A. Manning, a partner with Phillips Lytle, write: Recently, New York courts ruled on a variety of important class action issues involving counterfeit wines and GBL §350, inverse condemnation and terminal boxes, gift cards, overdrafts and federal preemption, denial of no-fault medical equipment claims and sua sponte class certification, post-graduate employment prospects for law students, rent overcharges and the J-51 program, and run-flat tires and causation.

By Thomas A. Dickerson, Jeffrey A. Cohen and Kenneth A. Manning

15 minute read

May 24, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Thomas A. Dickerson and Jeffrey A. Cohen, associate justices of the Appellate Division, Second Department, discuss the Affordable Care Act's effect on coverage of autism, New York's recently enacted "autism insurance" reform law, the developing body of law involving issues and services affecting autistic individuals and a new diagnostic publication that has raised concern in the autism community.

By Thomas A. Dickerson and Jeffrey A. Cohen

14 minute read