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Failure to Pursue Mental Health Evaluation Leads to Suspension
Courts Issue a 'Big Gulp' of Significant Decisions
In their Appellate Division Review, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman partners E. Leo Milonas and Frederick A. Brodie discuss recent cases involving New York City's large-soda ban, comfort dogs accompanying witnesses, the documentation of a settlement agreement in email, whether a non-moving party seeking affirmative relief must cross-move, and more.Apportionment in Premises Security Cases Revisited
Alan Kaminsky, a partner at Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, and Joseph C. Baiocco, an associate at the firm, write that the Appellate Division, First Department, has apparently come full circle on the issue of apportionment of liability against intentional tortfeasors.Southern District Civil Practice Roundup
Edward M. Spiro, a principal of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, writes that there is ample room for a district court to reach into other jurisdictions to prevent foreign litigation which frustrates its jurisdiction, particularly in the context of arbitration of international disputes. But, as the Second Circuit recently stressed, that authority should be used sparingly, and antisuit injunctions must be narrowly tailored to avoid unnecessary interference with foreign proceedings.View more book results for the query "*"
Meet The New Borough Bar Leaders
More than 5,000 members are served by the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island bar associations. Here, meet the new presidents of those associations, and discover their goals for the coming year.N.Y. vs. Federal Provisional Remedies for Choice of Forum
Gary J. Mennitt and Joseph F. Donley, partners at Dechert, write that forum selection may be the most important decision made in a matter where diversity jurisdiction is supportable or a nonexclusive federal claim may be asserted. The import of this decision is often most immediate when the action to be commenced will seek extraordinary pretrial relief, i.e., a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, attachment, or receivership. Such forum choice should not be informed by instinct alone.Circuit Finds No Ground to Presume Vindictiveness in Sentence
Overturning a grant of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the circuit said Steven Somerville was not entitled to the presumption simply because then-Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice John Leventhal gave him what appeared to be a longer sentence after the initial sentence was overturned.Trending Stories
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