Josefa Velasquez

March 22, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The state's Court of Appeals on Thursday heard oral arguments in a pair of cases concerning what evidence is necessary to establish identity theft.

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March 21, 2018 | New York Law Journal

Assemblyman Joe Lentol, a Democrat from Brooklyn who chairs the chamber's codes committee, told the New York Law Journal on Wednesday that both houses agreed to reject the Democratic governor's proposal because it would place limits on the types of defense an attorney could argue and because it would “carve out” one class of cases from the reasonableness test.

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March 20, 2018 | New York Law Journal

State Sen. John Bonacic, an Orange County Republican who chairs the chamber's judiciary committee, told the New York Law Journal that Cuomo's proposal to have judges certify that their courtrooms stay open until 5 p.m. is a “diss” to all the judges.

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March 19, 2018 | New York Law Journal

On Wednesday, the state's Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in the case 'People v. Credit Suisse Securities', which stems from a 2012 lawsuit Schneiderman filed charging that the Swiss international bank misrepresented the risks of residential mortgage-backed securities to investors in 2006 and 2007. Those securities helped spur the 2008 financial crisis.

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March 16, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The number of civil and criminal cases the state's Court of Appeals considered in 2017 fell nearly 37 percent from 2016, according a report issued by the state's Unified Court System.

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March 15, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The New York State Unified Court System released its 2017 annual report Thursday, highlighting efforts to reduce felony and misdemeanor backlogs and the increasing use of technology to automate systems.

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March 15, 2018 | New York Law Journal

A record-high 84 exonerations involved misconduct by police, prosecutors and other government officials, according to a new report from the National Registry of Exonerations.

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March 14, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The banking industry is a major hurdle for the medical marijuana business in New York and other states, lawyers say. Big banks are reluctant to get involved because of the uncertainty around federal anti-money laundering and other statutes aimed at discouraging moving illegal cash around.

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March 12, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The legislation, which passed 56-2, would ban mandatory arbitration clauses in sexual harassment settlements; establish a statutory definition of sexual harassment; and prohibit anonymity of the accused in court-approved settlements.

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March 12, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The legislation, which passed the Republican-led Senate last week, would make communication between clients and a legal referral service privileged on the same basis as between an attorney and client. Information provided by the client when seeking a legal referral often contains information that could damage the client's criminal or civil case if it were revealed to adverse parties, according to the bill's justification.

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