Joel Stashenko

May 28, 2010 | New York Law Journal

By Joel Stashenko

10 minute read

June 05, 2007 | Law.com

The general counsel at 37 corporations have sent New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and legislative leaders a letter decrying elected officials' failure "to provide minimally adequate compensation for judges." The chief legal officers urged that the officials enact a pay raise for judges and create an ongoing commission to set future judicial salary adjustments. The corporate counsel work both for New York-based businesses and for some of the largest national companies doing business in New York.

By Joel Stashenko

6 minute read

June 15, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Adopting a broad reading of the federal Communications Decency Act, a 4-3 majority of the Court of Appeals ruled that New York City apartment rental agent and seller Christakis Shiamili is blocked from suing a rival company for anonymous comments in a February 2008 blog post about the New York real estate industry that accused Mr. Shiamili of being a racist, an anti-Semite, a wife-beater, an adulterer and a bad boss.

By Joel Stashenko

6 minute read

June 19, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Joel Stashenko

5 minute read

January 20, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Joel Stashenko

5 minute read

April 26, 2010 | New York Law Journal

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

November 06, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Republican Supreme Court Justice Anthony J. Carpinello yesterday blamed a Democratic run on the polls not seen in more than four decades for his Election Day defeat and the impending loss of the Appellate Division, Third Department, seat he has held since 1996. Justice Carpinello was one of three Appellate Division justices, all Republicans, who lost their Supreme Court seats on Tuesday when New York voters overwhelmingly backed Democratic President-Elect Barack Obama and gave Democrats a majority in the state Senate for the first time in 43 years. Other Appellate Division justices losing re-election bids were Robert J. Lunn, a Fourth Department justice since 2006 who also had experience on the Second Department bench, and Second Department Justice Robert A. Lifson, who was named to that bench in 2004.

By Joel Stashenko

8 minute read

April 29, 2011 | Law.com

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

April 05, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

A New York state statute that permits stiffer sentences for "persistent" felony offenders violates defendants' constitutional right to a jury trial, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.

By Joel Stashenko

5 minute read

January 19, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Joel Stashenko

5 minute read