By Katheryn Tucker | February 21, 2018
Chief Justice P. Harris Hines plans to talk about “great change and great promise” throughout state government in 2018, including in the judicial branch with the election of new judges and a new Supreme Court justice.
By Andrew Denney | February 20, 2018
A trial was begun Tuesday in Judge Jack Weinstein's Brooklyn federal court over a civil rights case brought by a man who alleged the New York City Police Department has failed to stop a practice known as “collars for dollars,” in which officers make false arrests near the end of their shifts to pocket extra overtime pay.
By Colby Hamilton | February 20, 2018
Former Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny has already gotten prosecutors to agree that his bribery charges in the sprawling pill mill scheme should be reduced.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By James E. Mercante | February 20, 2018
In his Admiralty Law column, James E. Mercante writes: Due to the rigors of the sea, long periods of time away from home and the whim of tyrannical captains, seafarers have historically been treated as “wards” of the court and with the “tenderness of a guardian.” However, that tide may be turning.
By Kristen Rasmussen | February 20, 2018
Byung J. “BJay” Pak was sworn in on Friday as the top law enforcement officer for the Northern District of Georgia, becoming the state's first Asian-American U.S. attorney.
By Marcia Coyle | February 20, 2018
Justice Clarence Thomas, in a blistering dissent Tuesday, accused the U.S. Supreme Court of making the right to keep and bear arms "a constitutional orphan." The court turned down a challenge to California's waiting period for guns.
By Cogan Schneier | February 20, 2018
Alex van der Zwaan, the son-in-law of a Russian oligarch, admitted he lied to investigators.
New Jersey Law Journal | Commentary
By Law Journal Editorial Board | February 19, 2018
Voting rights should be restored to individuals convicted of crimes who are no longer incarcerated.
By Josefa Velasquez | February 16, 2018
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's wide-ranging budget amendments, which mostly contain technical changes to legislative language, deal with a broad range of issues including taxes and early voting, and an amendment that would prohibit a defendant from being able to ask a jury to find a harmed individual's sexual orientation or gender expression to blame for a defendant's violent reaction.
By Ross Todd | February 16, 2018
President Donald Trump has nominated Nicola Hanna to head the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney's Office, the nation's second-largest federal prosecutor's office behind only Washington, D.C.
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