Tania Karas

December 29, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Norman Goodman joined the office of the New York County Clerk at a time when records were created by typewriter or written by hand. Jurors were summoned by punch cards. And women jurors were rare.

By Tania Karas

8 minute read

December 15, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A Second Department panel has reversed a lower court order to release a Queens psychiatric patient, calling the trial judge's decision to strike the testimony of a psychiatrist the result of a "personal displeasure" with the witness.

By Tania Karas

2 minute read

December 11, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Norman H. Dachs, who practiced on Long Island for almost 60 years after co-founding Shayne, Dachs, Sauer & Dachs in 1955, died early Wednesday of lung cancer. He was 81.

By Tania Karas

3 minute read

December 09, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Law students and faculty across the state are speaking out against the recent grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers involved in the deaths of unarmed black men in New York and Missouri.

By Tania Karas

6 minute read

December 08, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Saying there was "no valid line of reasoning ... which could possibly lead rational [persons] to the conclusion reached by the jury on the basis of the evidence presented at trial," the First Department upheld the dismissal of a jury award to a woman whose foot became wedged in the gap between a subway train and the platform.

By Tania Karas

2 minute read

December 05, 2014 | Law.com

A Manhattan federal judge has denied a 98-year-old woman's petition to void what she insists was an unjust 1950 conviction for obstructing a government investigation of Soviet atomic spying.

By Tania Karas

3 minute read

December 05, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Christopher Dorman, a banking and commercial finance partner at Phillips Lytle, died Nov. 24 of a heart attack at Overlook Medical Center in Summit, N.J. He was 51.

By Tania Karas

2 minute read

December 04, 2014 | New York Law Journal

New York's law enforcement agencies no longer must comply with federal requests to detain undocumented immigrants booked into local jails, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Wednesday. The policy change brings New York in line with President Barack Obama's recent executive action on immigration reform.

By Tania Karas

2 minute read

December 03, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A trial court erred in disqualifying a criminal defense attorney against the wishes of his client, a divided Manhattan appeals panel has ruled in overturning the client's conviction and lengthy prison sentence for criminal possession of a weapon.

By Tania Karas

4 minute read

December 02, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Anthony Marshall, the son of New York socialite and philanthropist Brooke Astor who was jailed for stealing millions from his ailing mother's estate, died Sunday at age 90.

By Tania Karas

2 minute read