Joel Stashenko

April 06, 2017 | New York Law Journal

New York's Eric Schneiderman and California's Xavier Becerra are among 16 attorneys general signing onto an amicus curiae brief urging a federal appeals court to invalidate an Ohio law they say unconstitutionally inhibits health care providers from using public funds for abortions.

By Joel Stashenko

7 minute read

April 06, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Officers, directors or committee members of state-chartered credit unions in New York will no longer be required to take oaths upon first taking their positions under new guidance from state banking regulators.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

April 05, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Two attorneys who left their marks in different ways on New York state government, lobbyist Lester Shulklapper and civil rights lawyer Robert Isseks, have died.

By Joel Stashenko

19 minute read

April 05, 2017 | New York Law Journal

John Falk, justice of Brighton Town Court, has replaced Perinton Town Court Justice Thomas Klonick as a member of the state panel that monitors the conduct of judges in New York state.

By Joel Stashenko

2 minute read

April 05, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Banks have received guidance from New York state regulators about how much income of some account holders is protected from recovery from creditors under the state's Exempt Income Protection Act.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

April 05, 2017 | Legaltech News

The court upheld the convictions of two defendants in which the defense challenged as prejudicial the use of PowerPoint presentations by the prosecution.

By Joel Stashenko

8 minute read

April 04, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Facebook lacks legal grounds to seek to quash the Manhattan district attorney's search warrants for contents of personal accounts held by 381 Facebook customers, New York state's highest court ruled Tuesday.

By Joel Stashenko

11 minute read

April 04, 2017 | New York Law Journal

While nothing prevents the use of PowerPoint in summations to jurors during New York trials, the state Court of Appeals cautioned Tuesday that the same rules "governing the bounds of proper conduct" apply to the computer-aided presentations as to other statements and displays.

By Joel Stashenko

8 minute read

April 04, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Adoption of a stopgap spending bill by New York's state legislature could put off consideration of major public policy initiatives facing lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo through May.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

April 04, 2017 | Legaltech News

The lawyers discuss regulatory conflicts that may emerge between federal agencies and states as they grab pieces of cybercrime deterrence.

By Joel Stashenko

27 minute read