Joel Stashenko

February 14, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A federal judge has declined to dismiss an anti-abortion group's claims that its constitutional rights were violated when public university officials did not do more to deter counter-demonstrators from interfering with a "Genocide Awareness" protest.

By Joel Stashenko

7 minute read

February 07, 2017 | The Recorder

A lawyer for Facebook argued Tuesday before New York state's highest court that the Manhattan district attorney's investigation of 381 account holders could ultimately threaten the confidentiality of information about all the social medial company's New York users.

By Joel Stashenko

13 minute read

February 07, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The Internet Association, a trade group for Uber, Airbnb and other web-based companies, said it is opening an Albany office to "engage" New York state public policy makers.

By Joel Stashenko

7 minute read

February 07, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The clerks of the 1,300 town and village courts in New York State will soon face a mandatory continuing education program.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

February 06, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Rowan Wilson, a long-time partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, was confirmed Monday as the newest member of the Court of Appeals without opposition by both the Senate Judiciary Committee and the full Senate.

By Joel Stashenko

12 minute read

February 06, 2017 | New York Law Journal

New York's state Senate approved a bill Monday that would extend ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft outside New York City, where they first began operating in 2013, to the rest of the state.

By Joel Stashenko

5 minute read

February 03, 2017 | The Recorder

New York state's highest court will hear arguments this week into whether Facebook may challenge the constitutionality of search warrants that Manhattan's district attorney issued for information of the accounts of 381 of its users.

By Joel Stashenko

14 minute read

February 03, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Broome and Erie counties have sued leading manufacturers of OxyContin, Percocet and other opioid-based drugs in actions contending that the pharmaceutical makers misled the public and doctors about the addictive nature of the prescription painkillers.

By Joel Stashenko

6 minute read

February 03, 2017 | Legaltech News

Companies such as Google and Microsoft employ many of the same cyber-savvy people that law enforcement agencies also would like to have working for them.

By Joel Stashenko

9 minute read

February 02, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The United States has a shortage of security analysts qualified to stop cyberattacks, and trouble competing with high-tech companies such as Google and Microsoft also trying to recruit them, FBI and private sector computer experts said.

By Joel Stashenko

9 minute read