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Class Status Denied Parents Who Claimed Academy Misled Them
A federal judge has denied a class action motion by parents who contended they were misled into believing that the $4,000-a-month upstate boarding school where they were sending their troubled teens was accredited and could award high school diplomas. Northern District Senior Judge Thomas J. McAvoy decided that the ruling last month by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in McLaughlin v. Am. Tobacco Co. should alter the analysis of class certification in the matter brought by parents of students of the Academy at Ivy Ridge.Hancock Estabrook, Llp, Syracuse (Janet D. Callahan Of Counsel), For Plaintiff-Respondent-Appellant.Appeal and cross appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Onondaga County (Brian F
MC LANE, SMITH AND LASCURETTES, L.L.P., UTICA (STEVEN A. SMITH OF COUNSEL), FOR PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT. FOLEY, FRYE & FURNO, LLP, UTICA (TIMOTHY D. FOLEY OF COUNSEL), FOR DEFENDANTS-RESP
Judge Rules Budget Is Unconstitutional
ALBANY Just days before the release of the state budget, a judge in Albany has held that the New York State Legislature exceeded its authority and violated the Constitution last year when it amended appropriation bills and largely replaced Governor Pataki`s budget with one of its own.Move to End Forced Judicial Retirement Gains Momentum in N.Y.
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer said he wants to review the state Constitution's 150-year-old mandate that most judges retire at the end of the year in which they turn 70. Just after attending a swearing-in ceremony Monday for Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye to a term that will end when she is forced to step down on Dec. 31, 2008, Spitzer said in an interview that leaders in private industries and professions "are wondering whether rules of that sort make any sense."Trending Stories
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