Joel Stashenko

April 26, 2016 | New York Law Journal

New York's attorney general has standing under both statute and common law principle of parens patriae to sue Utica schools for not giving older immigrant children more meaningful instruction, a judge has found.

By Joel Stashenko

9 minute read

April 26, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A couple who say their wedding was disrupted because the U.S. Postal Service didn't tell them their wedding invitations needed extra postage lacked legal grounds to sue the agency, a U.S. judge has ruled.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

April 26, 2016 | New York Law Journal

None of the six counties examined in the state comptroller's review of ignition interlock devices consistently notified courts or local district attorneys' offices when drivers tried to start their vehicles while drunk or attempted to tamper with the devices.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

April 25, 2016 | New York Law Journal

An appellate court has reversed a drug possession conviction in a case that began when a detective standing in a Brooklyn courthouse spied marijuana plants in the backyard of an adjacent home.

By Joel Stashenko

6 minute read

April 25, 2016 | New York Law Journal

St. Lawrence County Court Judge Jerome Richards said it would be inappropriate for him to preside over any cases being handled by District Attorney Mary Rain's office because he objected to Rain allowing Jonathan Jirik, who is awaiting word on whether he passed the bar exam and does not yet have a law license, to act as an assistant county district attorney.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

April 25, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A woman is entitled to just over $11,000 in attorney's fees and costs after settling her reverse discrimination suit against an Asian restaurant in Niagara Falls.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

April 25, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Consolidated Edison has reached a settlement with the New York Public Service Commission based on what the state regulator said was lax management in the utility's construction program.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

April 22, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A state law requiring state judges and district attorneys outside of New York City to be paid the same has angered some county officials, who say they can't afford raises for their local prosecutors equal to the 11 percent salary hikes that took effect for judges three weeks ago.

By Joel Stashenko

11 minute read

April 22, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said his office has opened an investigation into the New York City's Board of Elections and complaints that would-be voters were turned away from polling places during Tuesday's primaries.

By Joel Stashenko/Associated Press

3 minute read

April 22, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A bill introduced in the state Legislature would designate a section of highway in the Village of Hillburn in honor of former U.S. Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall, who as an attorney won a trailblazing case which closed an all-black school in Hillburn, integrating the students into local white schools.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read