By Tom McParland | August 18, 2021
The panel said the late Judge Jack B. Weinstein's decision failed to balance the defendant's need for rehabilitation with ensuring adequate punishment and promoting respect for the law.
By Jane Wester | August 18, 2021
"We will not accept presidential pardons as get-out-of-jail-free cards for the well-connected in New York," Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said.
By Tom McParland | August 18, 2021
A Manhattan federal judge said the court had a "responsibility" to set bail conditions that will "prevent a danger to the community." The defendant agreed to take the shot.
By Meghann M. Cuniff | August 16, 2021
A federal judge in Delaware issued the order as Avenatti was defending himself in his wire fraud trial in the Central District of California, which could end this week.
By Meghann M. Cuniff | August 13, 2021
In an unusual pro se defense, Avenatti is working to establish both his national prominence and his friendly relationships with his clients as a way of discrediting small details from prosecutors who have cast him as thieving and his clients as slowly suspicious.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Harvey M. Stone and Richard H. Dolan | August 12, 2021
In this edition of their Eastern District Roundup, Harvey M. Stone and Richard H. Dolan discuss a decision denying bail pending sentence; a holding that requiring certain out-of-state travelers to fill out a New York state COVID-19 health form on entering the state does not violate the Supremacy Clause; and a decision declining a TRO directing a U.S. Embassy to adjudicate Form I-130 petitions under a fast-approaching deadline set by plaintiffs.
By Meghann M. Cuniff | August 11, 2021
Another New York-based agent could be flying across the country soon, too, as the judge still is considering another subpoena Avenatti served last week.
By Andrew Denney | August 11, 2021
The president has nominated a diverse group of attorneys to lead New York's four federal prosecution offices.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Robert J. Anello and Richard F. Albert | August 11, 2021
White-Collar Crime columnists Robert J. Anello and Richard F. Albert discuss the U.S. Supreme Court's recent 'Van Buren' decision, which fits into a pattern of the court's modern criminal law jurisprudence that, while purporting to use only traditional tools of statutory interpretation and to eschew policy judgments, nevertheless appears motivated by concerns about the ever-expanding reach and severity of federal criminal law.
By Andrew Denney | August 10, 2021
John Duyssen, a Genesee County town justice, is not an attorney.
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