Joel Stashenko

November 04, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Advocates for Airbnb and other new high-tech companies say New York regulators favor older industries and put 'square pegs into round holes' when it comes to regulating them.

By Joel Stashenko

18 minute read

November 04, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Court administrators are introducing a new program they say will empower victims of domestic violence to use e-filing and Skype videoconferencing to communicate with courts when seeking emergency temporary orders of protection.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

November 04, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The Agricultural Bank of China entered into a consent order with NY's Department of Financial Services to pay $215 million in civil penalties for suspicious dollar-clearing transactions in violation of a 2013 DFS order.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

November 03, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Rockland County DA Thomas Zugibe, president of the state District Attorneys Association, sent a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week asking for more state aid as DAs are asked to do more with technology and indigent criminal defendants.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

November 02, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Court of Claims Judge Frank Milano ruled that "negligent and inappropriate" conduct by New York state prison guards transporting inmate Leonard Strickland at Clinton Correctional Facility contributed to his October 2010 death. Milano ordered a trial to determine what if any damages are due the family.

By Joel Stashenko

9 minute read

November 02, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The federal Consumer Financial Protection bureau and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed suit in Buffalo on Nov. 2 to shut down an alleged illegal debt-collection operation they say improperly threatened legal action against millions of consumers nationally.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

November 02, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The Court of Appeals on Oct. 27 reversed the Fourth Department in a ruling that, while denying counties the Medicaid funding they sought, affirmed their right to sue the state for withholding the funds.

By Joel Stashenko

11 minute read

November 01, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The state's highest court will not intervene to restore the law license of Joel Brandes, an ex-attorney found to have engaged in the unauthorized practice of law in defiance of a disbarment order.

By Joel Stashenko

5 minute read

November 01, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The state Court of Appeals allowed a manslaughter conviction to stand, despite finding that the defendant abandoned a plea bargain agreement because his lawyer misinformed him about what sentence he could expect.

By Joel Stashenko

10 minute read

November 01, 2016 | New York Law Journal

An appeals court slashed the prison sentence of a 16-year-old defendant on Oct. 27 saying the Albany Supreme Court unjustly denied him consideration as a youthful offender for stealing a pair of sneakers.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read