Joel Stashenko

July 29, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Joel Stashenko

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July 05, 2007 | New York Law Journal

By Joel Stashenko

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March 21, 2007 | Law.com

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer said he wants to review the state Constitution's 150-year-old mandate that most judges retire at the end of the year in which they turn 70. Just after attending a swearing-in ceremony Monday for Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye to a term that will end when she is forced to step down on Dec. 31, 2008, Spitzer said in an interview that leaders in private industries and professions "are wondering whether rules of that sort make any sense."

By Joel Stashenko

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October 25, 2010 | Law.com

Brushing aside an 1891 precedent, the New York Court of Appeals on Thursday said lawyers who successfully challenge class counsel fees on behalf of individual plaintiffs are not entitled to reimbursement for their fees. The majority in a 5-2 decision held that "comprehensive" 1975 reforms to class actions in New York by the state Legislature authorized payment of fees only to the "representatives of the class" and not the "award of counsel fees to any party, individual or counsel, other than class counsel."

By Joel Stashenko

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November 10, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Joel Stashenko

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March 22, 2007 | Law.com

A bill to allow video coverage of criminal and civil trials in New York cleared the state Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday amid a new push by media companies hungry for electronic content for their Web sites. "With the advent of newspaper Web sites, many of which can offer full-motion video, it's becoming more imperative for our members to be able to present information to their readers in new electronic formats," said Diane Kennedy, president of the New York State Newspaper Publishers Association.

By Joel Stashenko

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November 05, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Writing for a Manhattan appeals court, Justice Eugene Nardelli yesterday ruled that a state law requiring most online retailers to collect sales taxes on purchases by New Yorkers is constitutional on its face, though the panel ordered the reinstatement of claims that the tax law may violate the commerce and due process clauses as applied to Amazon.com and Overstock.com.

By Joel Stashenko

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April 15, 2010 | New York Law Journal

By Joel Stashenko

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May 18, 2007 | New York Law Journal

By Joel Stashenko

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December 08, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Joel Stashenko

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