Joel Stashenko

October 31, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Administrative Law Judge Catherine Bennett decided that New York State tax department auditors were unreasonable in refusing Carousel Beverage Corp.'s request to meet with them to review confidential client records rather than send them over the internet via email.

By Joel Stashenko

7 minute read

October 31, 2016 | New York Law Journal

James Kennedy Jr. has been designated by the U.S. Department of Justice as acting U.S. attorney for Western New York to succeed William Hochul Jr., the Buffalo-based prosecutor's office announced Monday.

By Joel Stashenko

2 minute read

October 28, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The Appellate Division, Third Department, ruled Oct. 27 that the State Financial Services Law Section 206 provides proper authorization to assess insurers to help defray the cost of regulating them in New York state.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

October 28, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The Office of Court Administration has made its 2016 Voter Guide available online, providing information on all judicial elections on the Nov. 8 ballot except for town and village justice races.

By Joel Stashenko

2 minute read

October 28, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The last of three people charged with injuring a New York state prison guard with a homemade bomb has pleaded guilty.

By Associated Press/Joel Stashenko

2 minute read

October 27, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The court upheld in a 6-1 decision the validity of an indictment based on DNA evidence that was amended more than six years later to substitute the defendant's name, Lerio Guerrero, for "John Doe." Judge Jenny Rivera dissented.

By Joel Stashenko

7 minute read

October 27, 2016 | New York Law Journal

New York's highest court declined to reinstate breach-of-contract and fraud claims against an asset manager accused of making bad mortgage-based investments, finding that the suit represented a violation of the state's champerty doctrine.

By Joel Stashenko

9 minute read

October 26, 2016 | National Law Journal

Professional services network PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP must comply with a subpoena from New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as part of his investigation into whether Exxon Mobil Corp. misled investors and consumers about climate change, a judge ruled Tuesday.

By Joel Stashenko

21 minute read

October 26, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Acting Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Barry Ostrager decided Oct. 25 that the subpoena served by AG Eric Schneiderman's office against PricewaterhouseCoopers and ExxonMobil on Aug. 19 as part of an investigation into whether the companies misled investors and consumers about climate change is valid and directed them to comply with it.

By Joel Stashenko

22 minute read

October 26, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The Court of Appeals ruled Oct. 25 that the managers of a Manhattan strip club were not defamed by a CBS local news report linking the club to organized crime and a Rome youth hockey league was not liable for an assault on one spectator by another.

By Joel Stashenko

9 minute read