Joel Stashenko

December 22, 2016 | New York Law Journal

New York state is agreeing to close 54 large-capacity cesspools that have continued to operate at state parks but should have been taken out of service by April 2005 under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

December 21, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A bill that would require New York State to pick up the entire cost of counsel for indigent defendants has been sent to Gov. Cuomo but he has not said if he will sign it.

By Joel Stashenko

9 minute read

December 20, 2016 | New York Law Journal

No common law right of public performance exists in New York state to compel Sirius XM Radio to pay fees for the use of pre-1972 sound recordings by popular artists such as The Turtles, the state's highest court ruled Tuesday.

By Joel Stashenko

19 minute read

December 20, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Six more national retailers consented Tuesday to stop using on-call staffing methods under a multistate agreement. Nine other big retailers previously also had agreed to stop the practice.

By Joel Stashenko

5 minute read

December 20, 2016 | New York Law Journal

"The conduct is bizarre," Northern District Judge Gary Sharpe told Glendon Crawford, who schemed to build a device to bombard Muslims with fatal doses of radiation, at sentencing. "You are bizarre. Everything I heard on the tapes is bizarre."

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

December 19, 2016 | New York Law Journal

State court administrators have formally endorsed "discrete-task" representation of clients in New York in appropriate cases, saying it can help more low- and moderate-income civil litigants find counsel to handle only certain parts of a case.

By Joel Stashenko

9 minute read

December 16, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Former Onondaga County Court Judge Joseph Fahey will come out of retirement to become Syracuse's new corporation counsel beginning Jan. 1.

By Joel Stashenko

2 minute read

December 16, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A New York City-based government reform group is challenging a new state law that imposes enhanced donor reporting requirements on some nonprofit groups.

By Joel Stashenko

6 minute read

December 15, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A Northern District judge dismissed an unjust enrichment claim under state law filed against the Aldi discount supermarket chain by ex-managers who claim they were wrongly denied overtime. The judge ruled that the claim is pre-empted by their allegation that the chain also violated the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.

By Joel Stashenko

9 minute read

December 14, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A Coast Guard proposal to designate 10 new areas in the Hudson River where commercial vessels carrying crude oil can anchor received 9,000 public comments including reservations from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration.

By Joel Stashenko

10 minute read