Joel Stashenko

January 12, 2017 | New York Law Journal

An attorney and the operators of two "three-quarter" homes in New York City were arraigned Thursday on charges of participating in a scheme where residents were forced to receive taxpayer-funded drug treatment, whether they needed it or not.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

January 11, 2017 | New York Law Journal

New York City reached a $4 million settlement in a decadelong false imprisonment and malicious prosecution case brought by Maria De Lourdes Torres, who was jailed for four years on a murder charge that was dropped in 2007.

By Joel Stashenko

8 minute read

January 11, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A town court justice from northern New York has been admonished for comments she made on her Facebook account about a criminal matter pending in another court.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

January 11, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The expulsion of a political science student from a doctoral-track degree program at the State University of New York was justified by her lack of communication skills with her professors and peers, an appeals court ruled.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

January 10, 2017 | New York Law Journal

State Sen. Andrew Lanza of Staten Island has become the new chairman of the Codes Committee, succeeding retired Sen. Michael Nozzolio.

By Joel Stashenko

2 minute read

January 10, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The expulsion of a political science student from a doctoral-track degree program at the State University of New York was justified by her lack of communication skills with her professors and peers, an appeals court ruled.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

January 10, 2017 | New York Law Journal

An upstate town court justice has been admonished for engaging in political activities that are prohibited for sitting judges by state ethics canons.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

January 09, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

State regulators have imposed new requirements on banks operating in New York that they say are needed to ensure the institutions are adequately monitoring transactions for possible money laundering.

By Joel Stashenko

10 minute read

January 09, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A federal judge cut in half the amount to which he said an attorney was entitled for representing a police officer in a reverse discrimination suit against the city of Ithaca.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

January 09, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Gov. Andrew Cuomo will seek authority for his chief financial services regulator to bar bank and insurance executives who engage in abusive practices from working in New York, he said in his 2017 State of the State address Monday.

By Joel Stashenko

10 minute read