John Caher

March 17, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A medical imaging company that shortchanged New York City and the state on taxes has agreed to pay $6.2 million under a whistleblower claim.

By John Caher

2 minute read

March 17, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A six-year battle to unveil former Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's private emails is heading for a showdown in an Albany courtroom, with Spitzer claiming that neither the public nor his adversaries in a long-running dispute have any right to his personal communications.

By John Caher

5 minute read

March 14, 2014 | New York Law Journal

The state Court of Appeals has agreed to decide if local governments can restrict where sex offenders can live, a question that has arisen countless times around the state.

By John Caher

2 minute read

March 14, 2014 | New York Law Journal

An upstate appellate panel held Thursday that the Board of Parole has no obligation to spell out its procedures or provide more than a cursory explanation for its decisions to deny an inmate release.

By John Caher

6 minute read

March 13, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A major gender discrimination claim involving some 44,000 women and the nation's largest speciality retail jeweler has been dismissed because the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission failed to prove that it conducted a nationwide investigation before accusing Sterling Jewelers of violating its employees' rights.

By John Caher

5 minute read

March 13, 2014 | New York Law Journal

It took nearly 20 years for authorities in Brooklyn to get a conviction in a 1991 homicide where a young man was shot in the face with a .380 caliber bullet, but a panel decision Wednesday put prosecutors back at the start of a case that's already been tried twice.

By John Caher

4 minute read

March 12, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A former New York Police Department detective who quit after being charged with sex offenses is not entitled to 9/11-related pension benefits afforded to active and retired members of the Police Pension Fund, a Manhattan judge has held.

By John Caher

2 minute read

March 12, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A sexual harassment lawsuit against the state Assembly by two alleged victims of former Assemblyman Vito Lopez has been dismissed on technical grounds.

By John Caher

2 minute read

March 12, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday announced four key appointments that he said would help create "a cohesive, community-focused criminal justice policy for the City of New York."

By John Caher

3 minute read

March 11, 2014 | New York Law Journal

The Nassau County District Attorney and the state Attorney General want the parole board to re-examine its decision to release a convicted sex offender after an assistant attorney general vouched for the inmate's innocence.

By John Caher

6 minute read