Josefa Velasquez

September 14, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Mogul Barry Diller's decision to end his quest to build a $250 million floating island in the Hudson River after lengthy litigation surprised even the lawyers on both sides. Diller cited the escalating costs.

By Josefa Velasquez

3 minute read

September 14, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The state's highest court suspended a Monroe Town Court justice who was arrested earlier this year on felony charges of obstructing justice and making false statements to establish the required town residency.

By Josefa Velasquez

2 minute read

September 13, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A Washington, D.C.-based marijuana legalization advocacy group announced Wednesday that it has hired former U.S. senator from New York Al D'Amato, a Republican, as senior adviser to the group.

By Josefa Velasquez

5 minute read

September 12, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A lawyer for the state's original five medical marijuana manufacturers argued in Albany County Supreme Court on Tuesday that while the state can expand the medical marijuana program, it cannot add additional manufacturers.

By Josefa Velasquez

3 minute read

September 12, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A secretary to the former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos, asked the state's highest court Tuesday to reverse a lower court's ruling that found her guilty of criminal tax fraud over the secret sale of a Monet painting that had been in the Marcos home.

By Josefa Velasquez

4 minute read

September 08, 2017 | New York Law Journal

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office has opened an investigation into the Equifax credit reporting agency data breach that may have exposed 143 million Americans personal information.

By Josefa Velasquez

7 minute read

September 07, 2017 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Attorney General George Jepsen announced Wednesday that Connecticut is joining 14 other states and the District of Columbia in suing to invalidate President Donald Trump's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and to prohibit information gathered through the program to be used for immigration enforcement.

By Michael Marciano, Josefa Velasquez and B. Colby Hamilton

6 minute read

September 07, 2017 | New York Law Journal

New York's highest court rejected the argument Thursday that mentally competent, terminally ill patients have a constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, upholding lower court rulings.

By Josefa Velasquez

15 minute read

September 06, 2017 | New York Law Journal

New York's AG and 15 other states and D.C. filed a federal lawsuit in the Eastern District of New York alleging the Trump administration's undoing of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive action violates constitutional protections.

By Josefa Velasquez and B. Colby Hamilton

12 minute read

September 06, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A lawyer for a Schenectady man convicted on impaired driving charges argued before New York's highest court that a judge who presided in a lower court trial should not also have ruled on his appeal of the decision.

By Josefa Velasquez

3 minute read