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Indicting Ham Sandwiches Is No Longer Funny!: 'Enough Already,' US Supreme Court Says

The Supreme Court has taken—and overturned—a remarkable number of cases involving alleged prosecutorial overreach over this last decade because it evidently sensed a troubling trend, Law Journal columnist and retired Court of Appeals Judge Joseph Bellacosa writes.
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New York Law Journal

Law Journal Column on Legal Malpractice Casts New York Lawyers in Negative Light

Bluestone all but asserts that the legal community in New York, including the legislature and judiciary, work together to create an unlevel playing field in favor of attorneys, and to the detriment of their clients. While we appreciate that he is entitled to his point of view, your readers should also hear the other side.
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New York Law Journal

Presidential Immunity Decision Unleashes the Whirlwind

In his latest column for the Law Journal, Bennett Gershman asks: If Donald Trump knew that the U.S. Supreme Court had his back and that he would be immune from prosecution, is it farfetched to imagine that he would have engaged in far more ominous "official acts" to retain power?
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New York Law Journal

Judging With the Use of AI

Antediluvians like me are typically resistant to change—particularly when it comes to using computers. Frankly, I border on electrocuting myself…
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New York Law Journal

Law Enforcement-Arranged 'Controlled Calls' Violate Suspects' Rights

For too long, a suspect's rights to know when he or she is being interrogated and to have an attorney's presence at police-orchestrated questioning have been brushed aside so that detectives can devise a ruse to coerce a confession, Paul Townsend and Sarena Townsend write.
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New York Law Journal

Shot in the Dark: The Alec Baldwin Trial Dismissal

The dismissal hinged on a Brady disclosure violation related to a box of ammunition delivered to the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office.
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New York Law Journal

Law Reform: Time to Go Back to The Future

Support for and interest in law reform goes through periods of ebb and flow. Today, New York State Bar Association past president Hank Greenberg writes, the predominant sentiment appears to be one of indifference or disinterest, without a discernible countervailing movement to go back to the future.
12 minute read

New York Law Journal

A Little-Noticed Supreme Court Opinion That Could Bring Huge Consequences

Is it likely the court, as in Dobbs, will revisit Obergefell and abolish the right? The way the majority decided Munoz is a dire signal.
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New York Law Journal

New York State Should Act to Prevent False Reports of Child Maltreatment in Custody Cases

Child protective investigations can cause real harm to children, particularly when they occur because family members fighting for custody make false…
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New York Law Journal

Roberts Showed Integrity, Alito Showed Stupidity. But Should They Have Been Secretly Recorded?

The idea of integrity really means that one does the right thing when nobody is looking or listening.
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