John Caher

April 15, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Employees of a Rochester communications company who were designated "writers" but denied they performed the sort of creative work that would exempt them from overtime have persuaded a Western District judge to certify a class action against their employer.

By John Caher

2 minute read

April 15, 2014 | New York Law Journal

The Nassau County Police Department's blanket assertion of an ongoing investigation falls far short of any justification for withholding records from the family of a college student inadvertently shot and killed by an officer, a judge has held.

By John Caher

4 minute read

April 14, 2014 | New York Law Journal

The state court system and a union representing nearly 40 percent of its workforce have tentatively reached agreement on a contract that will boost pay 6 percent in three increments over the next two years.

By John Caher

2 minute read

April 14, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Nearly two years after the Court of Appeals found that a custodial parent could be held criminally responsible for kidnapping his or her own child, a trial judge in Manhattan has upheld charges against a woman who locked her five children in a room with her for 80 minutes.

By John Caher

4 minute read

April 14, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday signed the $1.81 billion Judiciary budget, leaving completely intact the spending plan proposed by the Office of Court Administration, including funding for 20 new Family Court judges.

By John Caher

2 minute read

April 11, 2014 | New York Law Journal

An upstate bankruptcy lawyer who makes his living holding creditors' feet to the fire for procedural violations has drawn the scorn of a federal judge who suggested the attorney lured a bank into a trap in order to collect a fee.

By John Caher

5 minute read

April 11, 2014 | New York Law Journal

In one of several offshoots of a lengthy and continuing civil fraud prosecution against two former executives of AIG, the Third Department has held that a government entity's internal communications on press strategy are not subject to the Freedom of Information Law.

By John Caher

4 minute read

April 10, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday appointed a 16-member commission to provide "concrete, actionable recommendations" on juvenile justice, with the aim of raising the age of criminal responsibility.

By John Caher

2 minute read

April 10, 2014 | New York Law Journal

It all started with a phone call in 1992, when attorney Scott Fein was contacted by civil rights activists about a peculiar incident up in Oneonta, where police stopped every black person they could find in the little college town over a five day period.

By John Caher

8 minute read

April 09, 2014 | New York Law Journal

The First Department has declined to reconsider a decision it made two months ago when it refused to remove Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Charles Ramos from the civil fraud case of Maurice "Hank" Greenberg and Howard Smith.

By John Caher

2 minute read