Josefa Velasquez

November 29, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Brooklyn Assemblyman Joe Lentol introduced legislation Monday that would increase the state's four departments to five by creating a Second Department, North consisting of the counties in the 9th Judicial District immediately north of New York City.

By Josefa Velasquez |

4 minute read

November 29, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Republican Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, the recently elected Rensselaer County executive, is barred from having interns work in his office after the ethics committee found that he violated the Assembly's harassment, discrimination and retaliation policy.

By Josefa Velasquez |

8 minute read

November 28, 2017 | New York Law Journal

In further developments in the messy breakup of the heavily advertised personal injury firm, Stephen Barnes claims in an affidavit that partner Ross Cellino got a former Cellino & Barnes employee who now works for a competitor to steal proprietary information and transfer it to Cellino's new website.

By Josefa Velasquez |

11 minute read

November 27, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A Washington County Town Court justice was admonished Monday for failing to disclose the received unsolicited and unsubstantiated ex parte information he presided over, the Commission on Judicial Conduct announced.

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3 minute read

November 22, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The state's Court of Appeals ruled that the Battery Park City Authority is a government entity and didn't have legal standing to challenge Jimmy Nolan's Law, a 2009 state law that gave workers who toiled in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers on 9/11, an extra year to file claims against the authority.

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8 minute read

November 22, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A task force reconvened by Chief Judge Janet DiFiore to recommend changes to the state's constitution will be co-chaired by her husband, Dennis Glazer, a retired Davis Polk & Wardwell partner and Justice Alan Scheinkman, the administrative judge of the state's Ninth Judicial District.

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2 minute read

November 22, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The state's Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has been reviewing parole appeals handled that were handled by an Albany resident who was convicted for fraudulently posing as a lawyer. Antonia Barrone, who is not a licensed attorney, was sentenced to one-and-a-half to three years in state prison on criminal charges earlier this month.

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2 minute read

November 21, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the state did not violate the compensation clause of the New York Constitution by reducing its contributions to judges' health insurance premiums, thereby reversing a lower court's decision.

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13 minute read

November 21, 2017 | New York Law Journal

New York's highest court overruled an Appellate Division, Fourth Department, ruling Monday on whether Family Court has jurisdiction to conduct a permanency hearing once an underlying neglect petition has been dismissed for failure to prove neglect.

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15 minute read

November 19, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A lawsuit filed by Lisa Marie Cater of Buffalo in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Saturday alleges that Sam Hoyt III, former state economic development official and former assemblyman, violated her state and federal civil rights by engaging in sexual harassment, assault and discrimination and retaliation against her. The Cuomo administration denies allegations it ignored Cater's complaints about Hoyt's behavior.

By Josefa Velasquez

8 minute read