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Andrew Denney is the bureau chief for the New York Law Journal. He can be reached at [email protected]. Twitter: @messagetime
February 17, 2015 | New York Law Journal
Justice Thomas Phelan, who had a passion for presiding over Article 81 guardianship cases, an area of the law that he felt was underserved, died on Feb. 12 after serving almost 20 years on the bench.
By Andrew Denney
1 minute read
February 13, 2015 | New York Law Journal
A lawyer for a husband in a matrimonial action properly limited her answers in a deposition by the wife's attorneys intended to draw out information about the husband's mental competency to sign settlement stipulations, a state judge has ruled.
By Andrew Denney
1 minute read
February 12, 2015 | New York Law Journal
An appellate court ruled Tuesday that a deceased woman's partner and longtime roommate should be entitled to succeed her in a rent-controlled apartment, saying that their "modest" intermingling of finances does not negate their "family-like" relationship.
By Andrew Denney
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February 11, 2015 | New York Law Journal
Two months after a Staten Island grand jury refused to indict an officer for the chokehold death of Eric Garner, a Brooklyn grand jury charged an officer with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and other offenses for the single shot fired in a pitch-dark hallway that killed Akai Gurley.
By Andrew Keshner and Andrew Denney
1 minute read
February 10, 2015 | New York Law Journal
A Queens judge denied a motion by a defendant in an armed robbery case to have an expert witness testify on the reliability of eyewitness accounts.
By Andrew Denney
1 minute read
February 9, 2015 | New York Law Journal
A Second Department panel, reversing the trial court, said that while disqualification generally falls within the court's discretion, the "very appearance of a conflict of interest" in a divorce case "was alone sufficient" to warrant disqualification of the wife's attorney.
By Andrew Denney
1 minute read
February 6, 2015 | New York Law Journal
Dean Gary Weber, a Westbury solo bankruptcy attorney, has been suspended for two years for hiring an "old law school friend" who had been disbarred and letting him practice under an assumed name.
By Andrew Denney
1 minute read
February 4, 2015 | New York Law Journal
Attorneys for a group of terminally ill patients have sued the state attorney general and several district attorneys in an effort to prevent the prosecution of physicians who provide assistance in dying to terminally ill, mentally competent patients.
By Andrew Denney
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