Joel Stashenko

February 05, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Janet DiFiore, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Judge Eugene Pigott Jr., who is the senior associate judge on the court, will speak during Monday's ceremony at the Court of Appeals in Albany.

By Joel Stashenko

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February 05, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A New York City Bar Association committee is asking Gov. Andrew Cuomo to make changes it says would enhance his ethics-in-government proposal in the 2016-17 state budget.

By Joel Stashenko

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February 05, 2016 | New York Law Journal

State Senate Republicans said Thursday they would rather fund pay raises for state judges than provide an extra $15 million for civil legal services in the next state budget. But Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks told legislators that they should fund both.

By Joel Stashenko

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February 04, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The state Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a confirmation hearing on Michael Garcia's nomination to the Court of Appeals on Monday.

By Joel Stashenko

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February 03, 2016 | New York Law Journal

New York's $19 registration and decal fees on commercial truckers violate the U.S. Constitution because they are not imposed proportionally to the payors' use of state highways, a judge has determined.

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February 03, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A. Gail Prudenti will succeed the late Judith Kaye as chair of the state's Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for Children.

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February 02, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A federal judge has ordered Chobani to halt advertisements for its new lower-calorie yogurt in which it accuses Dannon and Yoplait of putting dangerous chemicals into their competing products.

By Joel Stashenko

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February 01, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Patricia Salkin, dean of the Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, urged the New York State Bar Association's House of Delegates to use its influence to diversify the bar. "We need to wake up before the work of those who came before us gets unraveled," she said.

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January 29, 2016 | New York Law Journal

New post-divorce maintenance guidelines that took effect this week provide predictable factors for award calculations, but they still leave room for matrimonial lawyers to advocate on behalf of their clients, one of the rules' framers said Thursday at the New York State Bar Association annual meeting.

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January 28, 2016 | New York Law Journal

William Bratton told a group of judges, prosecutors and defense lawyers Wednesday at the New York State Bar Association annual meeting that he wants to give officers more discretion to hand out written warnings for minor misbehavior rather than give summonses or make arrests.

By Joel Stashenko

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