Joel Stashenko

May 25, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A state judge acquitted an upstate businessman Tuesday of murdering his estranged wife on Sept. 11, 2001, in the fourth time the defendant stood trial for the crime.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

May 25, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The state Commission on Judicial Conduct has recommended that a town court justice in Westchester County be admonished for improperly letting a deputy town attorney decide on the disposition of traffic cases before her court from May 2011 to May 2012.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

May 24, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A federal judge approved a $2.1 million settlement in a federal class-action suit against a health care facility staffing agency, including more than $700,000 in attorney fees and costs to two firms that represented some 900 aggrieved workers.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

May 24, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A statistical model used to evaluate the effectiveness of teachers in New York was "arbitrary" and "capricious" as it was applied to a fourth-grade teacher on Long Island in the 2013-14 school year, a state judge ruled.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

May 23, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The New York Civil Liberties Union is seeking to force the New York City Police Department to disclose detailed information about its purchases of cellphone-tracking devices known as "Stingrays."

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

May 23, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Syracuse University has named former Northern District U.S. Attorney Daniel French, the school's general counsel, as its acting athletic director.

By Joel Stashenko

2 minute read

May 23, 2016 | New York Law Journal

An off-hand comment that a suspect made to a state trooper—and that the trooper later realized reflected the suspect's knowledge of a crime—was a spontaneous utterance that did not require that Miranda rights be given, a court concluded.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

May 20, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The New York Civil Liberties Union and the City of Utica indicated Thursday that they have settled a suit alleging some immigrant children in Utica were getting unequal educational opportunities compared with non-immigrants.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

May 20, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The Third Department ruled Thursday that former officer Michael Del Peschio failed to present medical evidence definitively linking the respiratory problems that forced his retirement in 2011 to his assignment to the World Trade Center site following the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001.

By Joel Stashenko

2 minute read

May 19, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A suspect did not invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination by telling authorities "I don't want to talk about that" as they quizzed him about conversations overheard on a wiretap, a federal magistrate judge has held.

By Joel Stashenko

9 minute read