Joel Stashenko

May 19, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Sponsors of a proposed pipeline to carry natural gas between Pennsylvania and New York have filed a federal suit challenging the Cuomo administration's denial of a crucial permit for the project.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

May 18, 2016 | New York Law Journal

State law prohibits a man facing a civil confinement hearing from fully accessing his own medical records, which are in the hands of his own attorneys, a court has ruled.

By Joel Stashenko

7 minute read

May 18, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A First Department panel on Tuesday granted a motion from lawyers for Donald Trump for the Court of Appeals to hear an appeal of a decision allowing the state's fraud case against Trump University to go to trial.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

May 18, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A White Plains attorney is seeking unspecified damages for what he maintains was former Putnam County District Attorney Adam Levy's attempt to impugn his reputation and wreck his legal career.

By Joel Stashenko

2 minute read

May 18, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A judge declined to invalidate the nominating petitions of a Republican congressional primary candidate because two of the 1,885 signatures he collected were made by people holding power of attorney over the voters they signed for and not by the voters themselves.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

May 17, 2016 | New York Law Journal

T-Shirts worn by a handful of spectators at a murder trial showing victim's picture with the words "R.I.P." were not prejudicial to the defendant, a unanimous panel of a state appellate court had ruled.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

May 16, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Former beauty school students may pursue claims that the U.S. Department of Education defied federal law by collecting student loans it knew may have been obtained fraudulently, a federal appeals court determined.

By Joel Stashenko

11 minute read

May 13, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A West Point cadet's decision to duck under or sidestep pedestrian warning gates just before he was killed by a speeding Long Island commuter train was the kind of "reckless and extraordinary conduct" that relieves the transit operators of liability, an appeals court has ruled.

By Joel Stashenko

8 minute read

May 13, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Gerald Benjamin will be at the center of the debate in New York state over the next 18 months on whether to stage a convention to propose wholesale changes to the state constitution. He discusses the effort to inform New Yorkers, the importance of having a convention, and what state government would be like if voters had approved the recommendations from the last convention in 1967.

By Joel Stashenko

27 minute read

May 13, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The state Office of Court Administration will delay implementing revised attorney disciplinary rules for three months until Oct. 1.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read