Joel Stashenko

June 23, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The accommodations service said a bill that would bar residents from advertising apartments available for short-term occupancy in violation of rental laws would deter New Yorkers from making money on units that are eligible for temporary rental.

By Joel Stashenko

11 minute read

June 22, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Though "laudable" in purpose, an initiative by the de Blasio administration to give owners of one-, two- and three-family residences in New York City credits on their water bills was not legal, a state Supreme Court justice ruled.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

June 22, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The movements of a man "grabbing" at his waistline and bending down toward the floor while in a vehicle did not create the requisite suspicion to justify his arrest by a Rochester police officer, an appeals court ruled.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

June 22, 2016 | New York Law Journal

State lawmakers concluded their 2016 regular session without bringing the bill to create a Commission on Prosecutor Misconduct up for a vote, but sponsors said support for the idea is growing and one influential legislator is predicting its eventual passage.

By Joel Stashenko

10 minute read

June 21, 2016 | New York Law Journal

New York state would begin regulating and taxing fantasy sports operators under a bill approved overwhelmingly by the state Legislature. The measure was the product of negotiations between the Assembly, the Senate and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office, and its Senate sponsor, John Bonacic, said Saturday he expects Cuomo will sign it.

By Joel Stashenko

10 minute read

June 21, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The Third Department ordered a new trial, saying they found it "perplexing" that a drug defendant's attorney did not press for a missing witness charge to the jury when the prosecution decided not to call a "pivotal" confidential informant to the stand.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

June 21, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Criminal defense advocates say that with the state Legislature's unanimous passage of a bill requiring the state to take over indigent criminal defense costs in New York, their effort to correct a 50-year-old mistake will now focus on Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

By Joel Stashenko

11 minute read

June 20, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A divided Second Circuit panel ruled that a judge may have had an "erroneous understanding" of the facts of the case when he sentenced a man for possessing and producing child pornography.

By Joel Stashenko

7 minute read

June 20, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A judge affirmed a jury finding that a man's First Amendment rights were violated when he was silenced at a public meeting of the Niagara Falls City Council for complaining that the body's chairman had slurred Italians, although the judge reduced the damages and legal fee awards by more than half.

By Joel Stashenko

10 minute read

June 20, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A federal judge dismissed a union challenge to a directive by New York City that its corrections officers be subject to searches aided by the drug-sniffing dogs in an effort to reduce contraband entering city jails.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read