Lora Hollien

October 19, 2020 | New York Law Journal

The New York City Bar Association recently presented its annual Diversity and Inclusion Champion Awards, which recognize the critical role individual attorneys play in increasing and sustaining diversity within their organizations and the overall New York legal community.

By Lora Hollien

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October 19, 2020 | New York Law Journal

This year we're honoring nine attorneys for their accomplishments and impact on the legal community and the practice of law over the course of their careers.

By NYLJ Staff

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October 13, 2020 | New York Law Journal

Certainly, judges who hold conservative values have long sat on federal courts. However, the judges appointed in recent years differ materially in temperament and understanding of their roles than most of their predecessors.

By Derek Borchardt

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October 09, 2020 | New York Law Journal

The Senate's failure to follow a consistent policy for considering Supreme Court nominees is unconstitutional. Instead of succumbing to political bulldozing by their Republican colleagues, Democratic Senators can, and should, resort to the courts to check this arbitrary and unconstitutional maneuvering.

By Jim Walden

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September 30, 2020 | New York Law Journal

We applaud automatic expungement of marijuana offenses now decriminalized. It may be tempting to take things further and demand that court records be destroyed, but there is almost nothing to be gained by having sealed court records destroyed, and potentially a lot to lose.

By Judy Whiting

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September 29, 2020 | New York Law Journal

Roberta Kaplan of Kaplan Hecker & Fink and Sharon Nelles of Sullivan & Cromwell, winners of OAD's prestigious Gould Award for Outstanding Oral Advocacy, will present arguments in Baxter v. Bracey, a case that asks whether the doctrine of qualified immunity should be narrowed or abolished.

By Lora Hollien

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September 28, 2020 | New York Law Journal

A recent commentary related that, after an "initial rebuff," the Office of Court Administration quietly started dismissing his and others' protest-related summonses, a statement that demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of OCA and the adjudicative process.

By Justin Barry

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September 24, 2020 | New York Law Journal

Justin Maffett, who was charged with violating an emergency order while protesting after George Floyd's death, writes that "it does not take a law degree" to realize dismissal is in the interest of justice.

By Justin Maffett

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September 24, 2020 | New York Law Journal

Recent coverage of the death of Justice Ginsburg claims that "a federal district judge, Edmund L. Palmieri, … agreed to hire her only after [a Columbia Law School professor] threatened never to send the judge another law clerk if he did not." I was Judge Palmieri's clerk when he interviewed Ruth Ginsburg, and can attest that the "threat", if made, was not the cause of the judge's job offer.

By Alvin Schulman

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September 18, 2020 | New York Law Journal

When strangulation laws were being passed across the country, domestic violence advocates were encouraged when so many police departments agreed that stopping abusive individuals from terrifying people with near death experiences should be a core practice for them, even if the survivors show no serious sign of injury when the police arrive, as is often true. Police should understand why a chokehold, like strangulation, should be illegal no matter who does it.

By Amy Barasch

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