• People of the State of New York v. Chambers

    Publication Date: 2024-09-30
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Civil Rights | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, U.S. - EDNY
    Judge: District Judge Natasha C. Merle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 24-CV-00641

    Action Is Remanded to Criminal Court in Queens; 28 USC §1443 Removal Not Satisfied

  • Garraway v. U.S.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-30
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, U.S. - SDNY
    Judge: District Judge Nelson S. Román
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-Cv-10643

    Home Confinement Credit Properly Declined; Credit Not Entitled to; Counsel Not Deficient

  • People v. Shilman

    Publication Date: 2024-09-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Bronx
    Judge: Justice Audrey E. Stone
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 72654-22

    Motion to Vacate Denied, Felon Did Not Have Right to Possess A Firearm

  • People v. Sparks

    Publication Date: 2024-09-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Appellate Division, First Department
    Judge: Justice Ellen Gesmer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Respondent: Jamie Masten of counsel, Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., District Attorney, New York.
    for defendant: For Appellant: Leanna J. Duncan of counsel, Jenay Nurse Guilford, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York.

    Case Number: 4231/19

    Mentally Ill Man's Continued Incarceration Serves No Objective of Criminal Punishment

  • Doe v. Waltzer

    Publication Date: 2024-09-26
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Criminal Law | Damages
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, U.S. - EDNY
    Judge: District Judge Frederic Block
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For the Plaintiff: Sami El Cherif, Karl J. Ashanti, S. Michael Musa-Obregon, Musa-Obregon Law, P.C., Maspeth, NY.
    for defendant: For the Defendant: Andrew B. Stoll, Stoll, Glickman & Bellina, LLP, Brooklyn, NY.

    Case Number: 1:21-CV-04332

    Excessive Damages Award Warrants New Trial on Civil Rape Claims Revived by CVA

  • People v. Hierro

    Publication Date: 2024-09-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Criminal Court, Bronx
    Judge: Judge Carmen A. Pacheco
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For the People: Aziza Asad, Assistant District Attorney, Office of the Bronx District Attorney.
    for defendant: For the Defendant: Meg Tiley, Esq., The Bronx Defenders.

    Case Number: CR-002747-23BX

    Motion Denied; Defendant's Request Ran Contrary to Angelica's Law

  • People v. Clark

    Publication Date: 2024-09-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: District Court, Nassau
    Judge: Judge David W. Wright
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: CR-012977-23NA

    Disciplinary Records of Officers Part of Mandatory Discovery, Case Dismissed

  • People v. Alexander

    Publication Date: 2024-09-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Kings
    Judge: Justice H. Jacob Moses
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: IND-73684-24

    Dismissal Denied; However, Prosecution Sanctioned for Misleading Representation

  • U.S. v. Radulescu

    Publication Date: 2024-09-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, U.S. - SDNY
    Judge: District Judge Sidney H. Stein
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 19-CR-651

    'Compassionate Release' Reduced Sentence Denied; BOP Not Unable to Care for Ailments

  • U.S. v. Suquilanda

    Publication Date: 2024-09-23
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Criminal Law | Immigration Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Eunice C. Lee
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellee: Jane Y. Chong, on the brief, Won S. Shin, Assistant United States Attorneys, for Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellant: S. Isaac Wheeler & Allegra Glashausser, Federal Defenders of New York, Inc., New York, NY, on the brief, Erwin Chemerinsky, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA.
    for defendant: For Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Justice Strategies, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, Legal Aid Justice Center, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, and National Immigration Law Center, amici curiae in support of Defendant-Appellant: Nicholas D. Espiritu, Los Angeles, CA & Max S. Wolson, Washington, DC, National Immigration Law Center; Ghita Schwarz, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, New York, NY. For Legal Service Providers and Immigrant Rights Organizations, amici curiae in support of Defendant-Appellant: Ann Garcia, Khaled Alrabe, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, Washington, DC; Charles Roth, National Immigrant Justice Center, Chicago, IL. For Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Human Rights First, and Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, amici curiae in support of Defendant-Appellant: Michele A. McKenzie, McKenzie Scott PC, San Diego, CA. For Critical Race and Nation Studies, and Professor Eric Fish, amici curiae in support of Defendant-Appellant: Alexander G. Tievsky, Edelson PC, Chicago, IL, for the Center for Immigration Law and Policy, the Aoki Center. For Dr. S. Deborah Kang, amicus curiae in support of Defendant-Appellant: Philip L. Torrey, Crimmigration Clinic, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA. For Immigration Scholars, amici curiae in support of Defendant-Appellant: Amanda Valerio, Washington, DC & Alexia D. Korberg, Melina Meneguin Layerenza, Patrick McCusker, New York, NY, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.

    Case Number: 22-1197-cr

    Defect in NTA Did Not Strip Immigration Court of Jurisdiction to Order Initial Removal