Joel Stashenko

March 12, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Joel Stashenko

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October 10, 2008 | New York Law Journal

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May 24, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Joel Stashenko

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June 27, 2011 | Law.com

By Joel Stashenko

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August 25, 2011 | New York Law Journal

For the first time in a decade, outside judges joined the Court of Appeals for an oral argument yesterday so that the Court could muster a majority. Both Justices A. Gail Prudenti, presiding justice of the Appellate Division, Second Department, and Thomas E. Mercure, acting presiding justice of the Third Department, asked numerous questions of the litigants' lawyers during the 50 minutes the Court allotted for discussion.

By Joel Stashenko

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April 06, 2007 | Law.com

The New York state Commission on Judicial Conduct plans to double both the number of its staff attorneys to 10 and investigators to 14, thanks to an infusion of funds in the 2007-08 state budget. The commission's budget will jump by $2 million in New York's new fiscal year to $4.8 million. Administrator and counsel Robert H. Tembeckjian says the first order of business is to work through 275 pending matters, the largest backlog of cases since the commission was created in its current form in 1978.

By Joel Stashenko

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April 04, 2008 | New York Law Journal

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August 10, 2010 | New York Law Journal

A split Second Circuit panel yesterday rejected a lower court's determination that the Oneida Indians could be eligible for compensation for some 250,000 acres of central New York that their ancestors sold to the state after the Revolutionary War. Northern District Judge Lawrence E. Kahn had reasoned that the equitable defense of laches would prohibit the return of the lands, but had left the door open to compensation through "non-possessory" rights he ruled the Oneidas still held.

By Joel Stashenko

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June 12, 2009 | New York Law Journal

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July 18, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Albany law firm DeGraff, Foy, Conway, Holt-Harris & Mealey can be held liable for the failure of a Florida firm it retained to file a client's claim to more than $1.2 million from a Florida estate. As the Third Department noted yesterday, client Alice Whalen was not aware that DeGraff Foy was going to arrange for the Florida firm to file the claim when the estate of Julius Gerzof opened in Florida in 1996 and had no contact with the Florida firm directly, relying "completely" on DeGraff Foy to stake her claim to the money.

By Joel Stashenko

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