Cases and Courts

  • New York Law Journal

    Court Hears Call to Bolster Access-to-Justice Lawyer Fees

    By Joel Stashenko | January 2, 2015

    A government agency's attempt to reduce the shelter allowance of a disabled woman has prompted the state Court of Appeals to take up what advocates for low-income New Yorkers say is an important access-to-justice issue for individuals before state government.

  • New York Law Journal

    Terrorism Suspect Challenges the Use of Warrantless Surveillance

    By Andrew Keshner | January 2, 2015

    After taking back his plea that he had aided terrorists by emailing and sending money to an alleged Pakistani extremist, Agron Hasbajrami insists any evidence collected through previously undisclosed warrantless monitoring must be suppressed in a closely watched case.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judge Rejects Verizon's Settlement of Shareholders' Lawsuit

    By Amaris Elliott-Engel | January 2, 2015

    In a highly critical opinion, Justice Melvin L. Schweitzer said the case was an example of the rising tide of litigation that comes with every public acquisition in which a settlement benefits the class counsel financially and helps the defense by ending the litigation but enables "an unwarranted divestiture of shareholder rights."

  • New York Law Journal

    Criticism of Doctor Was Protected Speech, Judge Finds

    By Christine Simmons | January 2, 2015

    A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a doctor against three New York attorneys who wrote about another judge's scathing remarks against him, finding their statements were privileged or protected opinions.

  • New York Law Journal

    Split Panel Allows Added Contingency for Appeal

    By Ben Bedell | December 31, 2014

    Adding a 10 percent contingency fee for appellate work on top of the allowable maximum of one-third of damages awarded in personal injury trials is permissible, a split First Department panel ruled Tuesday.

  • New York Law Journal

    Retrial Ordered Due to 'Suggestiveness' of ID Process

    By Andrew Keshner | December 31, 2014

    The Second Department panel said failing to keep the original photo arrays viewed by two complainants by itself did not mandate suppression of identification testimony, but that failure gave rise to a "presumption of suggestiveness," and a detective's "inconsistent" testimony was not detailed enough to demonstrate the procedure's fairness.

  • New York Law Journal

    Rules Limiting Depositions Take Hold in Commercial Part

    By Amaris Elliott-Engel | December 29, 2014

    The days of never-ending depositions in Commercial Division cases are drawing to an end.

  • Daily Business Review

    Jury Deliberating in Broward Judge Cynthia Imperato's Drunken-Driving Trial

    By Adolfo Pesquera | December 19, 2014

    The jury in the drunken-driving trial of Broward Circuit Judge Cynthia Imperato is set to resume deliberations Friday. Jurors didn't reach a decision after four hours of deliberation Thursday night.

  • New York Law Journal

    Faulting Evidence, Circuit Rejects Insider Trading Verdict

    By almstaff | December 11, 2014

    The convictions of former hedge fund portfolio managers Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson have been reversed by the the Second Circuit, which said prosecutors failed to produce sufficient evidence to show that they had willfully engaged in either insider trading or an insider trading conspiracy or knew the sources of the insider information received a personal benefit.

  • Law.com

    Canada's Anti-Spam Law (CASL)

    By Thomas Yohannan | July 22, 2014

    If you have used email at all in your life, a constant burden that you'd have to deal with over the years is spam. 'Spam' are those advertising messages that come into your inbox from marketers. They are sometimes relevant but on the whole they are more of an annoyance to your daily schedule. To slow down, Canada passed an Anti-Spam Law that took effect on July 1.

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