Mark Hamblett

July 17, 2015 | New York Law Journal

An irate traveler who was arrested and lost her job after commenting about a bomb to a JetBlue Airways gate agent at John F. Kennedy International Airport has lost her lawsuit for defamation and false arrest.

By Mark Hamblett

5 minute read

July 17, 2015 | New York Law Journal

An irate traveler who was arrested and lost her job after commenting about a bomb to a JetBlue Airways gate agent at John F. Kennedy International Airport has lost her lawsuit for defamation and false arrest.

By Mark Hamblett

5 minute read

July 17, 2015 | New York Law Journal

A former attorney who made money by creating phony advanced degrees for immigrants seeking employment visas in the United States was ordered to serve 27 months in prison Thursday.

By Mark Hamblett

2 minute read

July 16, 2015 | New York Law Journal

A former attorney who made money by creating phony advanced degrees for immigrants seeking employment visas in the United States was ordered to serve 27 months in prison Thursday.

By Mark Hamblett

2 minute read

July 16, 2015 | Law.com

A complaint that New York state is violating the Constitution by barring outside equity ownership in law firms is "entirely without merit," Southern District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled Wednesday.

By Mark Hamblett

5 minute read

July 16, 2015 | New York Law Journal

An ex-convict who claimed his wife framed him for gun possession so she could date another inmate whom she bailed out of jail has won his writ of habeas corpus at the Second Circuit.

By Mark Hamblett

10 minute read

July 16, 2015 | New York Law Journal

A complaint that New York state is violating the Constitution by barring outside equity ownership in law firms is "entirely without merit," Southern District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled Wednesday.

By Mark Hamblett

5 minute read

July 16, 2015 | New York Law Journal

An ex-convict who claimed his wife framed him for gun possession so she could date another inmate whom she bailed out of jail has won his writ of habeas corpus at the Second Circuit.

By Mark Hamblett

5 minute read

July 15, 2015 | New York Law Journal

A judge's decision to suppress a gun and marijuana uncovered by Rochester police during a street stop for an open container of beer has been reversed by the Second Circuit, which said the stop was supported by numerous objective facts, not merely a "hunch."

By Mark Hamblett

4 minute read

July 15, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Civil liberties groups have asked the Second Circuit to declare again that the bulk collection of telephone metadata by the National Security Agency is not authorized by statute and is unconstitutional.

By Mark Hamblett

2 minute read