Joel Stashenko

February 16, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A town court justice who admitted to stealing some $4,200 from a pee wee football league of which she was treasurer has resigned her judicial office.

By Joel Stashenko

2 minute read

February 16, 2016 | New York Law Journal

In his first major public policy assignment since stepping down as the state's chief judge, Jonathan Lippman has been enlisted to head a commission to review New York City's Rikers Island jail complex and the criminal justice policies that keep it supplied with offenders.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

February 11, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A federal judge dismissed with prejudice a suit filed by an attorney who contended that Allstate Insurance, Federal Express and dozens of other companies schemed to defraud Medicare.

By Joel Stashenko

2 minute read

February 11, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Chief Judge Janet DiFiore has brought her communications director as Westchester County district attorney, Lucian Chalfen, along with her to the state court system.

By Joel Stashenko

1 minute read

February 10, 2016 | New York Law Journal

An appeals court has ruled that two western New York officeholders cannot invoke environmental review laws to defeat a planned community college expansion that they opposed politically.

By Joel Stashenko

2 minute read

February 09, 2016 | New York Law Journal

After Janet DiFiore was ceremonially installed Monday as chief judge of New York, she said reducing case backlogs in the court system will be her first priority.

By Joel Stashenko

5 minute read

February 09, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The Fourth Department has vacated a man's convictions on 20 counts related to the repeated sexual abuse of two girls, ruling unanimously that he may have been convicted on theories different from those set forth in the indictment, as limited by the bill of particulars.

By Joel Stashenko

2 minute read

February 09, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The disciplining of a state prison inmate for harassment for sending a note to a female guard warning her of the dangers of smoking has been upheld by the Third Department.

By Joel Stashenko

2 minute read

February 08, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A former state lawyer's disability discrimination claim against the New York Attorney General's Office should be heard in a courtroom rather than in an administrative proceeding, the Second Circuit has ruled.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

February 08, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The state District Attorneys Association has revised its handbook on the ethical obligations of DAs and distributed it to each of the approximately 2,800 prosecutors in New York state.

By Joel Stashenko

1 minute read