Susan DeSantis

December 12, 2018 | New York Law Journal

Daniel J. Kornstein's excellent article reviews how voter disenfranchisement subverts our constitutional democracy (What to the Disenfranchised Voter…

By Jerry H. Goldfeder

4 minute read

December 11, 2018 | New York Law Journal

An interview with New York Law Journal deputy editor-in-chief Susan DeSantis will be broadcast at 3 p.m. Dec. 12 on Nassau Community College's radio…

By Staff

1 minute read

December 10, 2018 | New York Law Journal

But is our Democracy so ideal? Is it worth exporting? Is it even real? Is it endangered? What do we even mean by Democracy?.

By Daniel J. Kornstein

8 minute read

December 07, 2018 | New York Law Journal

In our experience to focus on an appeal waiver when the sentence is not excessive is like allowing the home baseball team to bat in the bottom of the ninth inning when the home team is already ahead; they have already won, so what's the point?

By Rolando Acosta

8 minute read

December 06, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The U.S. Department of Justice in an email Thursday declined to comment on reports that the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York was handling the case, or to provide any other information on the matter.

By Phillip Bantz

5 minute read

December 06, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The fees are modest and operate on a sliding scale, ensuring that resolving the dispute will not be disproportionate to the amount in controversy.

By Lew Tesser

5 minute read

December 06, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The hires help Validity expand its foothold in New York after launching in June with $250 million in capital and a team led by litigation finance veteran Ralph Sutton.

By Scott Flaherty

4 minute read

December 05, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The law gives everyone just enough rights to hurt schoolchildren in underperforming private religious schools, but not enough rights to actually help them. In cases where religious parents want less education than the state mandates—or even simply refuse to teach that which conflicts with their religious faith that the state labels a minimum—a compromise is needed.

By Michael J. Broyde

6 minute read

December 04, 2018 | New York Law Journal

New York is one of a dozen states that does not have an automatic exemption or excusal from jury service for persons over a certain age---usually 65 or 70.

By Leon Polsky

2 minute read

December 04, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The best part of the book deals with this portion of Ginsburg's career, in the 1970s, when she was in a state of “becoming,” making her first huge mark on the legal profession.

By Jeffrey Winn

7 minute read