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New York Law Journal

Clarence, Take the Money and Drive

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should accept John Oliver's offer of $1 million a year and a new RV, which expires on March 19, the Law Journal's Bennett L. Gershman writes.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Some Recent Developments in Donald Trump's New York State Court Cases

Trump now has until March 18 to file reply papers in the civil fraud case that the New York Attorney General won at trial. This is only one week before his criminal trial regarding alleged hush payments to Stormy Daniels is scheduled to begin.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Cruel but Not Unusual: The Sentence Recommended for Sam Bankman-Fried

John S. Martin, former district judge and U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, presents his take on the U.S. Probation Department's recommended 100-year sentence for Sam Bankman-Fried.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

NYPD 'Uninformed' Attacks on Judges' Bail Decisions Pose a 'Grave' Threat

There are a number of problems with the NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell's recent criticism
15 minute read

New York Law Journal

Litigation Funding Is an Asset—Not an 'Albatross'—to New York's Civil Justice System

If men were angels, government would not be necessary—and nor would litigation finance. But we are not angels, litigation is often an effective tool to ensure compliance with the law, and litigation is extraordinarily expensive, a litigation finance expert.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Recent Law Journal Column Offers Timely Analysis of Law School Curricula

For instance, law schools could more pointedly offer interdisciplinary rule-of-law—and pedagogy as broadly as they have included law—and subjects within their curricula, a Law Journal columnist writes.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

A Winning Trifecta for New York: The 1977 Court Reforms

The current appointive system for Court of Appeals judges discarded the statewide elective method, a Law Journal columnist recounts. Centralized administration with statewide fiscal resources shifted executive leadership responsibility to the chief judge and chief administrative judge.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Noncitizen Voting: A Bridge Too Far

Beyond dealing a major rebuke to New York City Council leadership, the Appellate Division, Second Department's recent ruling that a local law giving noncitizens the right to vote protects the rights of other minorities who played by the rules and would have had their votes diluted by the votes of noncitizens, a Law Journal columnist writes.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

A Career-Ending Collision at Sea

In his Admiralty Law column, James E. Mercante discusses the collision between Navy warship USS John S. McCain and oil and chemical tanker Alnic MC, as well as the trial that followed in the Southern District of New York.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Enduring Bond Between Clerks and Judges

A Nassau County judge recounts a exchange in which "his" judge—the judge he spent his clerkship with as a young lawyer—wielded his "rapier" wit to disarm a fellow jurist and got a room "doubled over with laughter."
4 minute read

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