Joel Stashenko

March 03, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The state Commission on Judicial Conduct said it had 203 pending cases at the end of 2015, an increase of 32 percent from a year earlier, and attributed the rise to continued short staffing at the agency.

By Joel Stashenko

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March 02, 2016 | New York Law Journal

It will be the 31st straight year that the Third Department has held a session at the law school. All five justices scheduled to hear arguments—Elizabeth Garry, John Egan Jr., Michael Lynch, Eugene Devine and Christine Clark—have J.D. degrees from Albany Law.

By Joel Stashenko

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March 02, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The state Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation, which recommended in December bringing the pay of state judges more into parity with federal judges, will consider salary increases for state legislators and agency heads at a public hearing on March 10.

By Joel Stashenko

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March 01, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A man evicted from an apartment reserved for people recovering from substance abuse can assert tenants' protections against unfair eviction under New York City laws, a Housing Court judge has determined.

By Joel Stashenko

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March 01, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Justice David Friedman of the Appellate Division, First Department, on Monday delayed enforcing New York City's new requirement that some restaurants warn patrons about menu items with particularly high levels of sodium.

By Joel Stashenko

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February 29, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Gilbert Taylor, the one-time commissioner of homeless services for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, is in line for a mayoral appointment to the Family Court.

By Joel Stashenko

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February 29, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A federal lawsuit contends that female inmates in New York state prisons are subject to sexual abuse by male guards, who face little or no risk of meaningful punishment if caught.

By Joel Stashenko

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February 29, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A state judge has declined to stop the demolition of the 137-year-old amphitheater at the Chautuaqua Institute, a stage on which William Jennings Bryan, Booker T. Washington, Robert F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton and many others have appeared.

By Joel Stashenko

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February 29, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The state Court of Appeals has agreed to hear the appeal for reinstatement filed by Joel Brandes, who was referred in 2015 by an appeals panel as a "noted authority" on family and divorce law.

By Joel Stashenko

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February 26, 2016 | New York Law Journal

New York state was "comfortably" within its administrative powers when it required healthcare workers who refused to get flu shots to wear face masks when working with patients during flu season, an appeals court said Thursday.

By Joel Stashenko

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