Mark Hamblett

October 21, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Mark Hamblett

5 minute read

October 18, 1999 | Law.com

As Federal Judge Nina Gershon weighs whether to grant the Brooklyn Museum of Art's request to block Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's campaign against the "Sensation" exhibition, the issue of whether her court should decide the matter is very much alive. At the close of a recent hearing, Gershon asked both sides to file additional arguments on whether she should abstain from exercising jurisdiction and defer to a state eviction action filed by the city in Kings County Supreme Court.

By Mark Hamblett

5 minute read

May 14, 2010 | New York Law Journal

By Mark Hamblett

4 minute read

April 07, 2004 | New York Law Journal

A federal appeals court has overturned a heroin conviction because a drug agent was allowed to testify as an expert on the meaning of "I was there to watch someone's back."

By Mark Hamblett

4 minute read

October 05, 2004 | New York Law Journal

By Mark Hamblett

5 minute read

January 25, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Free With Registration: Judge Sanctions City For Failure to Reveal Recission of Order

By Mark Hamblett

44 minute read

September 12, 2006 | Law.com

In the five years since 9/11, the courts of the 2nd Circuit have been the scene of a series of collisions between national security priorities and civil liberties. While cautioning that the final word on many of the challenges to the USA Patriot Act has yet to be uttered by the U.S. Supreme Court or at the 2nd Circuit itself, civil liberties attorneys say there have been notable instances where federal judges in New York have checked the U.S. Department of Justice's claim of executive pre-eminence.

By Mark Hamblett

24 minute read

September 11, 2006 | New York Law Journal

By Mark Hamblett

25 minute read