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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
By Amaris Elliott-Engel | December 29, 2014
The days of never-ending depositions in Commercial Division cases are drawing to an end.
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.
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.
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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