John Caher

August 29, 2014 | New York Law Journal

An appellate panel has reinstated part of a whistleblower claim with a first-time holding that such an action, to the extent that it seeks to vindicate a public right, trumps the usual notice of claim requirements.

By John Caher

5 minute read

August 28, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Frank Sedita III became a prosecutor because he wanted to "wear the white hat," and these days he's riding at the helm of the District Attorneys Association of the State of New York, preaching a message that DAs have just as much of an obligation to exonerate the innocent as they do to convict the guilty.

By John Caher

9 minute read

August 27, 2014 | Law.com

In an early application of a new U.S. Supreme Court precedent on cellphone records and the Fourth Amendment, a judge in Brooklyn has suppressed evidence that allegedly would have shown that a defendant photographed a child sex crime victim during a trial.

By John Caher

5 minute read

August 26, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Westchester attorney George Galgano said in an interview Monday that the witness tampering and bribery charges lodged against him last week are false. He insists it was not him, but Putnam County District Attorney Adam Levy, who tampered with a witness.

By John Caher

4 minute read

August 26, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Suffolk County has been barred from enforcing its sex offender residency restriction law pending the outcome of a Nassau County case before the Court of Appeals.

By John Caher

2 minute read

August 25, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A ballot initiative to create an "independent" redistricting commission was "blatantly designed to perpetuate legislative and political control of the redistricting process," according to a lawsuit filed in Albany.

By John Caher

2 minute read

August 25, 2014 | New York Law Journal

The state may initiate civil management proceedings against a sex offender who, while on supervised release, committed a non-sex crime, a state appeals panel has held.

By John Caher

2 minute read

August 25, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Just weeks after enduring scathing criticism in an Appellate Division dissent, the state Board of Parole has voted unanimously to release a man it had denied on seven prior occasions.

By John Caher

7 minute read

August 25, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A government-paid informant who long snitched on the Gambino and Bonanno crime families but reneged on a deal to tip off the FBI to an arson is entitled to a new trial because of errors by a trial judge.

By John Caher

4 minute read

August 22, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Over a spirited dissent, the Second Circuit on Thursday refused to dismiss a class action by hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protestors who claim they were goaded by police into violating the law.

By John Caher

5 minute read