Richard A Dollinger

August 21, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Justice Miller crashed through the glass ceiling: as one of the first women to graduate from Harvard Law School, then to serve on the Family Court, the Supreme Court, and the Appellate Division, Second Department.

By Evelyn Frazee, Richard A. Dollinger and Dolores Gebhardt

2 minute read

July 22, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Coercive control may not involve physical violence but instead the assault is in the form of a spouse's insistent and threatening control over their partner.

By Richard A. Dollinger and Alan Feigenbaum

7 minute read

December 13, 2019 | New York Law Journal

It seems that New York's "excited utterance" exception may be screaming out for further judicial review.

By John J. Ark, Daniel J. Doyle, William K. Taylor and Richard A. Dollinger

8 minute read

March 25, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Richard A. Dollinger writes: The "appearance of impropriety" and "doubts favor disqualification"—once the touchstones for attorneys in disqualification applications—may no longer cast such a long shadow on the legal profession after a blizzard of judicial decisions requiring a higher standard of proof in such applications.

By Richard A. Dollinger

30 minute read

May 27, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Richard A. Dollinger writes that when a judge learns that a witness or a party has unreported "under-the-table" income, his or her first thought may be to contact taxing authorities. But the judicial decision to report tax evasion or other illegal conduct is more complicated, with an overlay of ethical rules and practical complications that caution judicial restraint.

By Richard A. Dollinger

13 minute read

October 28, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Richard A. Dollinger, a member of the New York Court of Claims and acting Supreme Court Justice, discusses how the increased use of social media and the Internet threatens the cornerstone of the jury system—that conclusions to be reached by a jury should come only from evidence and argument in court, and not by any outside influence.

By Richard A. Dollinger

12 minute read

July 02, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Richard A. Dollinger, a member of the New York Court of Claims and acting Supreme Court Justice, writes that there is a civil war underway between the states and the federal courts over long-term care and health care policy, and it all has nothing to do with the Affordable Care Act.

By Richard A. Dollinger

10 minute read