This column reports on several significant representative decisions handed down recently in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Judge Jack B. Weinstein, in his Statement of Reasons for sentencing a lawyer to incarceration, called for a shift in the legal profession’s culture to encourage attorneys with mental illness to seek help. Judge Weinstein also enforced an Internet arbitration clause against a customer who claimed that her purchase had caused bed bugs. And Judge I. Leo Glasser declined to dismiss IRS claims for money damages against a co-defendant who had benefitted from fraudulent conveyances by her father-in-law to escape estate taxes.

Sentencing: Mental Health Problems of Lawyers

In United States v. Luthmann, 17 CR 664 (Oct. 15, 2019), Judge Weinstein, after sentencing an attorney for crimes that were “absurd, bizarre, and ruthless,” discussed the need for the legal profession to do more to help lawyers suffering from mental illness.

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