Joel Stashenko

December 01, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Two groups have sued over the state's plan to require electric ratepayers in New York to support nuclear power plant operations in the short term to allow the state to improve power supplies from renewable energy sources in the long term.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

December 01, 2016 | New Jersey Law Journal

Major banking and insurance industry groups are attacking New York's proposed regulation requiring member companies to adopt stringent protections against cyberattacks that compromise consumers' confidential information.

By Joel Stashenko

11 minute read

December 01, 2016 | Legaltech News

National groups say the plan “appears to impose inflexible, one-size fits all requirements.”

By Joel Stashenko

11 minute read

November 30, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Major banking and insurance industry groups are attacking New York's proposed regulation requiring member companies to adopt stringent protections against cyberattacks that compromise consumers' confidential information.

By Joel Stashenko

10 minute read

November 30, 2016 | New York Law Journal

ReNika Moore has been appointed new chief of the Labor Bureau in the state Attorney General's Office, AG Eric Schneiderman announced Wednesday.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

November 29, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Gov. Cuomo signed a bill into law Nov. 29 allowing the state to designate sites in each county outside NYC for centralized, off-hours arraignments of criminal defendants. The city has long had such sites in each borough.

By Joel Stashenko

9 minute read

November 29, 2016 | Daily Business Review

A woman who unwittingly married a Cuban spy as part of his efforts to infiltrate South Florida's exile community cannot compel New York state to turn over Cuban government funds it holds in order to satisfy a court order in the woman's favor, a federal judge ruled.

By Joel Stashenko

10 minute read

November 29, 2016 | Daily Business Review

New York state has been dropped as a defendant in Airbnb's lawsuit challenging a new state law that imposes heavy fines for hosts who advertise units that cannot be legally rented.

By Joel Stashenko

11 minute read

November 29, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A former village court justice from northern New York has been indicted for allegedly reducing a traffic fine for a defendant in exchange for sex, the state attorney general's office said Tuesday.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

November 28, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A federal judge in Albany ruled Nov. 21 that a woman who unknowingly married a Cuban spy cannot collect a Florida default judgment of $7.17 million against the Cuban government and the former spouse from accounts held as abandoned property by New York state using the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

By Joel Stashenko

9 minute read