New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Alexander Klein | April 2, 2019
Our society has countervailing interests—like reducing the pretrial suffering of innocent criminal defendants, and reducing the frequency with which people plead guilty simply because of that pretrial suffering.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Dorit Rubinstein Reiss and David I. Levine | March 28, 2019
One option New York State should consider is to allow tort suits–civil actions for damages–against schools which allow non-vaccinating parents to send their children when their actions substantially increase the risk of spreading the outbreak of this highly contagious disease.
Property Casualty 360 | Commentary
By Sharon Emek | March 28, 2019
U.S. government data show the number of workers aged 55 and older still on the job has increased by nearly 29% since 2012.
By Michael Steinig and Alexander Sand, Eversheds Sutherland | March 28, 2019
To overcome the challenges in maintaining compliance after the deadline, covered entities must implement a highly structured and organized approach to vendor management, with consistent application of thoughtful, risk-based rules, all within a third-party ecosystem growing in size, complexity and risk.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Daniel Conviser | March 27, 2019
I am gratified that the Legislature and the Governor are on the verge of enacting landmark reforms to our state's pre-trial securing order system designed to significantly reduce the number of criminal defendants who are incarcerated before trial. But I also have significant concerns about the specific reforms now being negotiated.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Darren LaVerne and Jessica Weigel | March 26, 2019
The claim that early production of witness statements threatens to engender perjury and obstruction is based on the notion—inimical to our system of justice—that every person charged with a crime is guilty and likely to flout the law in order to escape punishment. A statute that rests on this presumption is, in 2019, long overdue for reform.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joseph Bellacosa | March 26, 2019
Every prosecutor must exercise such discretionary judgment of when and whom to prosecute on the evidence, not on political or media-generated bellowing.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Katie Adamides and Erin George | March 26, 2019
The property tax cap creates perverse incentives for criminalizing low-income people of color and turning the police into revenue generators. And it's wrong to create a criminal record for those who can't afford to buy back their driver's licenses.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joel Cohen and Gerald B. Lefcourt | March 25, 2019
What is most telling is a message deriving from this investigation for virtually every target vacillating over whether to accept his lawyer's knee jerk, playbook advice to remain silent.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Brook Hopkins and Colin Doyle | March 25, 2019
Today, with just over 4% of the world's population, the United States has nearly 20% of the world's pretrial jail population — almost half a million people.
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