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New York Law Journal

Rush to Judgment Against Central Park Five Was the Real Crime

What really is morally and intellectually indefensible--which Mr. Richman overlooks--is the mob-like rush to judgment in 1989 against these five innocent boys by the media, the public and Donald Trump, who insinuated himself with his front-page incendiary call for the death penalty.
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New York Law Journal

Rush to Condemn Linda Fairstein Is Mob Rule

Mob rule, which this clearly is, is morally and intellectually indefensible. The mob serves as a substitute for thought; to be the liberal purveyors for a just society and behave in such a manner is outrageous.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Leaving Them Speechless: A Mere Government Agency Cannot Silence Americans for Life

Within moments, lives are forever altered, reputations destroyed, businesses put on the road to ruin with many livelihoods at risk.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

What Happens to Whistleblowers When the Government Doesn't Intervene?

As the court stressed, "[i]f the government intervenes, the civil action remains the same--it simply has one additional party."
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

'Yellowstone' Will Live on Through Creative Practitioners

While the commentators have bemoaned the court's decision (especially those representing tenants), the issue before us practitioners is what do we do when negotiating a lease and more specifically, the waiver of declaratory relief?
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New York Law Journal

In Defense of The Central Park 5 Prosecution

With the release of Netflix's miniseries "When They See Us," there is renewed interest in the criminal prosecution in the assault of the Central Park jogger. So, we're sharing this letter to the editor from prosecutor Linda Fairstein that we posted in July of 2018.
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New York Law Journal

Weaknesses in Central Park Jogger Case Were Clear All Along

Nor should it be forgotten that numerous other victims in the community were left vulnerable because of the prosecutors' close-minded, slipshod rush to judgment against the wrong defendants.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Malpractice Insurance Proposal May Require Changes in Current Insurance

As lawyers, we know that technicalities matter and that the “devil is in the details.”
3 minute read

The Recorder

An African-American Lawyer's Perspective on the California Cut Score Debate

The author suggests that law school deans should stop pretending that there is a newfound interest in diversity driving a call to lower the score needed to pass the California bar exam.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Businesses That Exploit and Lie to Customers Should Be Terrified

While $50 may have been an effective deterrent in 1970, the “forty-fold increase” of which the author warns would bring the penalty to $2,000—reasonable and effective by modern standards.
2 minute read

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