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New York Domestic Violence Prevention Director Sets Record Straight on Fatality Review Boards

The head of New York State's domestic violence prevention office responds to a recent Law Journal column that she said was written without due diligence on the part of the authors.
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New York Law Journal

Court of Appeals Grants Increasing Number of Criminal Appeal Applications

Thomas R. Newman of Duane Morris suggests that an increase in the number of criminal appeals heard and decided by the New York Court of Appeals is welcome.
1 minute read

Daily Report Online

Georgia Legal Community Mourns Loss of James Elliott

The former state bar president and Emory Law professor emeritus led initiatives to improve access to justice in Georgia and to promote ethics, integrity and public service within the legal profession, including co-founding the Georgia Legal Services Program and the state's mandatory Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts program.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Law Journal Columnists Make 'Questionable' Claim on Federal Constitutional Matters and the New York Court of Appeals

It is questionable whether New York jurisprudence requires the state's trial and appellate justices to abide a Court of Appeals ruling on a federal constitutional matter that has been effectively nullified by the U.S. Supreme Court, a law firm partner writes.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Expediting Family Court Appeals Would Serve the Best Interests of Children

Attorneys from the Children's Law Center express support for a proposal outlined in a recent New York Law Journal column.
2 minute read

Daily Report Online

Congratulations to New Superior Court Judge Alice Benton

Judge Benton will be well served by her 29 years of experience in the legal profession, with a primary focus on family law and divorce cases. In addition to her career in private practice, she has also worked in the Fulton County and Cobb County District Attorney's Offices and the Forsyth County Solicitor General's Office.
1 minute read

New York Law Journal

Recent Column on Appointing Attorneys for Toddlers Relies on 'Careless and Ill-Informed Reading' of New York's Child Representation Rules

A family court lawyer's recent unsubstantiated assertion in a Law Journal column that that judges "allow[] themselves to be potentially influenced by their favorite AFC on the issue of a toddler's custody," is both nonsensical and insulting to the judiciary, a group of prominent Attorneys For Children write.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

State Commission's Recommended Judicial Pay Raises Are Laudable. But They Won't Keep Parity With Federal Bench For Long

While the recommendation to raise elected Supreme Court justices' pay to equal that of federal district judges is welcome, that equalization will be short-lived. Federal district judges will get their own raises next year, and the commission's recommendation only includes one further salary increase for state judges and justices between now and the next time the panel convenes in four years
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Statistics Reveal an Engaged Court Debating Case Issues

It was heartening to read the opinions in the 12 criminal appeals decided by the Court of Appeals on Nov. 21, at least nine of which had as their jurisdictional predicate a grant of leave by a judge of the Court of Appeals.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Op-Ed Criticized Guild's Support of Terrorism, That Is All

The thrust of the article is that the National Lawyers Guild, on the day after the Oct. 7 massacres and before Israel entered Gaza, praised the Hamas rapes, beheadings and kidnappings as entirely justified "military actions." I criticized the guild for its support of terrorism and its insensitivity toward the Israeli victims, Alan M. Dershowitz writes.
3 minute read

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