John Caher

August 22, 2014 | New York Law Journal

When Mayor Bill de Blasio decided the much-maligned Civilian Complaint Review Board needed a major makeover, he turned to an attorney with a career-long history of taking on the establishment—both as an outsider and an insider.

By John Caher

11 minute read

August 22, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Media outlets that publicized a police photo of a suspected sexual predator—and then left the picture on their websites long after a misidentified man complained—cannot be held liable for defamation, a Bronx judge has held.

By John Caher

4 minute read

August 21, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Although Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout's chances at the polls remain to be seen, she is winning the court battle against Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

By John Caher

2 minute read

August 21, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Parting with one sister court but joining four others, the Second Circuit has found that a noncitizen's state felony need not include a federal jurisdictional element to qualify as a deportable offense.

By John Caher

3 minute read

August 20, 2014 | New York Law Journal

The court, in sending the case of a foreigner seeking asylum based on political activities that occurred in this country back to the Board of Immigration Appeals, pleaded with the tribunal for a "careful precedential opinion" setting "some guidelines on how to judge similar cases in the future."

By John Caher

5 minute read

August 19, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A Bronx judge's "unreasonable" application of U.S. Supreme Court confrontation clause jurisprudence denied a defendant a fair trial and resulted in his conviction on a homicide charge, a unanimous panel of the Second Circuit said Monday.

By John Caher

2 minute read

August 19, 2014 | New York Law Journal

In a decision last week, Southern District Judge P. Kevin Castel embraced a magistrate judge's order admonishing and cautioning attorney Denise Savage to heed the rules on professional civility, and giving little credence to her complaints that her opposing counsel had provoked her into calling him an "a**hole."

By John Caher

4 minute read

August 18, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A New York City law requiring parental consent and acknowledgment of the health risks of "bris milah," a ritual circumcision practice in which a mohel orally draws blood from the wound, is subject to "strict scrutiny" analysis, a federal appellate court held Friday.

By John Caher

6 minute read

August 18, 2014 | Law.com

An Albany area farm which rebuffed efforts by a same-sex couple to hold their wedding at the site has been fined $10,000 and ordered to pay the women $1,500 each for their mental anguish.

By John Caher

4 minute read

August 18, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Virtually unknown, underfunded and trailing badly in the polls, Attorney General candidate John Cahill nevertheless trudges ahead with the one-step-at-a-time perseverance of a marathon man. But then, he is a marathon man.

By John Caher

14 minute read