Mark Hamblett

December 16, 2015 | New York Law Journal

"Litigation is not a sport, litigation is not a lottery," Southern District Judge Shira Scheindlin said in an opinion ordering a plaintiff and his lawyer to pay some of New York City's costs for defending a meritless civil rights lawsuit.

By Mark Hamblett

4 minute read

December 14, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Federal prosecutors' campaign against political corruption on both sides of the aisle in Albany peaked on Friday, as a jury convicted former Senate majority leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam of all charges in a four-year pay-to-play scheme.

By Mark Hamblett

7 minute read

December 14, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Federal prosecutors' campaign against political corruption on both sides of the aisle in Albany peaked on Friday, as a jury convicted former Senate majority leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam of all charges in a four-year pay-to-play scheme.

By Mark Hamblett

7 minute read

December 14, 2015 | New York Law Journal

By a vote of 6-6, the Second Circuit has left undisturbed a ruling that former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and other officials can be sued for the punitive conditions in a Brooklyn jail imposed on Muslims and Arabs arrested in a preventive sweep following the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

By Mark Hamblett

6 minute read

December 14, 2015 | New York Law Journal

By a vote of 6-6, the Second Circuit has left undisturbed a ruling that former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and other officials can be sued for the punitive conditions in a Brooklyn jail imposed on Muslims and Arabs arrested in a preventive sweep following the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

By Mark Hamblett

6 minute read

December 11, 2015 | New York Law Journal

The jury in the Dean and Adam Skelos political corruption trial deliberated for four and a half hours Thursday without reaching a verdict.

By Mark Hamblett

2 minute read

December 11, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Jury deliberations began Thursday afternoon in the case of former Bryan Cave counsel Harvey Newkirk, who is accused of taking part in a fraud scheme to buy Maxim magazine by inducing lenders to provide millions of dollars in financing.

By Mark Hamblett

1 minute read

December 10, 2015 | New York Law Journal

The jury in the Dean and Adam Skelos political corruption trial deliberated for four and a half hours Thursday without reaching a verdict.

By Mark Hamblett

2 minute read

December 10, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Jury deliberations began Thursday afternoon in the case of former Bryan Cave counsel Harvey Newkirk, who is accused of taking part in a fraud scheme to buy Maxim magazine by inducing lenders to provide millions of dollars in financing.

By Mark Hamblett

1 minute read

December 10, 2015 | New York Law Journal

New York City has agreed to settle a suit with a police officer who claimed he was retaliated against for blowing the whistle on what he claimed were arrest, stop and summons quotas for police in the 42nd Precinct in the Bronx.

By Mark Hamblett

2 minute read