Josefa Velasquez

August 01, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Hoping to boost a struggling industry within New York, the state's health department on Tuesday granted five additional companies licenses to manufacture and dispense medical marijuana within the state.

By Josefa Velasquez

6 minute read

July 31, 2017 | New York Law Journal

An ad campaign in New York starting Monday backed by the hotel industry and its unions links home-sharing platform Airbnb to public safety threats in what the company calls an "outrageous" tactic.

By Josefa Velasquez

5 minute read

July 31, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced that it had added the Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics plant to the Superfund list, meaning federal funds can be used to help clean up sites contaminated by a chemical used to make nonstick coatings.

By Josefa Velasquez

4 minute read

July 28, 2017 | New York Law Journal

In a letter issued July 14 to the county, HUD shifted its position from the one held during the Obama administration and declared that an analysis did not find exclusionary zoning to be an impediment to fair housing in the county.

By Josefa Velasquez

5 minute read

July 27, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Erie County Supreme Court Justice Deborah Chimes denied an application for a preliminary injunction filed by partner Stephen Barnes in the dissolution of Buffalo-based personal-injury firm Cellino & Barnes and vacated a temporary restraining order she granted earlier this week.

By Josefa Velasquez

3 minute read

July 26, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The dispute between the name partners of the well-known Buffalo-based personal injury firm just got nastier with state Supreme Court Justice Deborah Chimes signing a restraining order against Cellino for allegedly poaching lawyers and cases, according to an affidavit by Barnes.

By Josefa Velasquez

3 minute read

July 26, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A New York trader who engaged in thousands of incidents of "spoofing" in the gold, silver, copper and crude oil futures markets has been ordered by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to pay $635,000.

By Josefa Velasquez

3 minute read

July 25, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Certain nonjudicial employees and officers of the unified court system in New York will receive retroactive salary increases and other benefits under a bill signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday.

By Josefa Velasquez

4 minute read

July 24, 2017 | New York Law Journal

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and 10 other state attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, charging the agency has illegally delayed a safety rule for chemical plants.

By Josefa Velasquez

4 minute read

July 21, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A meeting between former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, now outside counsel for home-sharing service Airbnb, and members of the state Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus, scheduled for Friday, to discuss the company's anti-discrimination efforts was postponed amid threats of picketing by the state's powerful hotel workers' union.

By Josefa Velasquez

4 minute read