John Caher

July 11, 2014 | New York Law Journal

After conducting its own sua sponte investigation, the First Department disciplinary committee has declined to take any action against Scott Greenspan who was accused by a judge of pestering and intimidating jurors in a malpractice case he was monitoring for an insurance company.

By John Caher

9 minute read

July 10, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A 1999 Court of Appeals precedent upholding a "ghost" police officer's report that a drug crime had occurred is equally applicable in a prostitution case, a judge in Brooklyn has found.

By John Caher

3 minute read

July 10, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A "far from overwhelming" pro se whistleblower complaint lodged by a healthcare worker in the state prison system will proceed, largely because the attorney general's bare-bones summary judgment motion fell flat with a federal judge.

By John Caher

2 minute read

July 09, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Barry Kamins is going back to work next week as a civil court judge in Queens, while a judicial ethics panel investigates allegations that the jurist improperly served as a behind-the-scenes political advisor to embattled former District Attorney Charles "Joe" Hynes.

By John Caher

7 minute read

July 08, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A trial judge's failure to follow up on reports that a juror in a robbery case was flirting with a defendant's wife and a co-defendant's daughter, and that he apparently expressed an opinion about the case before the trial concluded, has prompted an appellate panel to topple the conviction.

By John Caher

2 minute read

July 08, 2014 | New York Law Journal

An Fourth Department panel has upheld a finding that a police officer responding to an emergency call displayed a recklessness that supported a finding of liability by driving through a red light.

By John Caher

3 minute read

June 30, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A parolee's claim that he didn't know that struggling with and fleeing from police could get him arrested fell flat with a Bronx judge, who found the offender's rationale "mystifying."

By John Caher

2 minute read

June 30, 2014 | Commercial Litigation Insider

A billion dollar international lawsuit involving dramatic allegations of strong arm tactics, corrupt foreign courts and a complicated scheme to steal a Siberian oil field is headed for trial in Manhattan after the state's highest court reinstated the action in a key statute-of-limitations decision.

By John Caher

6 minute read

June 30, 2014 | Law.com

A billion dollar international lawsuit involving dramatic allegations of strong arm tactics, corrupt foreign courts and a complicated scheme to steal a Siberian oil field is headed for trial in Manhattan after the state's highest court reinstated the action in a key statute-of-limitations decision.

By John Caher

6 minute read

June 27, 2014 | New York Law Journal

The state's highest court on Thursday ordered the parole board to free a man whose release was rescinded following a barrage of criticism and complaints from the survivors of a murder victim.

By John Caher

2 minute read