Thomas B Scheffey

December 01, 2014 | Connecticut Law Tribune

New Britain Superior Court Judge Stephen Frazzini has enjoined the Connecticut Law Tribune from publishing an article based on a court document that had previously been posted on the state Judicial Branch website.

By THOMAS B. SCHEFFEY

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November 26, 2014 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Ridgefield author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, who died in 2012 in Danbury Hospital, is widely viewed as the most important children's book artist of the 20th century.

By Thomas B. Scheffey

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November 25, 2014 | Connecticut Law Tribune

In a ruling from the bench Monday, Nov. 24, New Britain Superior Court Judge Stephen Frazzini enjoined the Connecticut Law Tribune from publishing an article based on a court document that had previously been published on the Judicial Branch website.

By Thomas B. Scheffey

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October 28, 2014 | Connecticut Law Tribune

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor didn't return to Yale just to reminisce about their law school years, though there was more than a little bit of that.

By Thomas B. Scheffey

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October 24, 2014 | Connecticut Law Tribune

In about half of the high-end divorce cases in Connecticut, lawyers and their clients have enjoyed the benefits of a tax rule that does not require couples to separate child support and alimony.

By Thomas B. Scheffey

7 minute read

September 15, 2014 | Connecticut Law Tribune

It was friendly advice, but scary. Manchester attorney Ryan Barry was warned by a judge that he ought to be worried about his personal safety. "These people play for keeps," the jurist warned. "You have a family."

By THOMAS B. SCHEFFEY

7 minute read

September 05, 2014 | Connecticut Law Tribune

In Connecticut's top ranks of medical malpractice defense lawyers, Bridgeport's Madonna Sacco is a hero to doctors and their insurance companies.

By Thomas B. Scheffey

8 minute read

August 29, 2014 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Though workplace harassment is a major employment law issue, this legal tale has a bigger element: freedom of information. The question now is, should the woman's report be a public document?

By Thomas B. Scheffey

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June 13, 2014 | Connecticut Law Tribune

From the late 1970s through 1999, the first thing that many Connecticut lawyers did at trial was to take out a slim orange book and place it on the counsel table. It was professor Colin Tait's "Handbook of Connecticut Evidence."

By THOMAS B. SCHEFFEY

9 minute read

May 12, 2014 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Outside in a light New Haven rain, buds of trees were showing green and starting to unfurl. Inside, surrounded by the old dry oak of Yale Law School's auditorium, prominent judges, prosecutors and lawyers gathered May 8 to salute the late Jacob D. Zeldes, the man known as the dean of the Connecticut criminal bar.

By THOMAS B. SCHEFFEY

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