By Cogan Schneier | October 26, 2017
In a speech at the Heritage Foundation, the attorney general said judges who have entered nationwide preliminary injunctions against President Donald Trump's policies are carrying out policy preferences, not the law.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Richard Emery | October 26, 2017
In his Judicial Conduct column, Richard Emery concludes his discussion of discipline imposed upon judges who attempt to further private interests by invoking their judicial office. Here, he focuses on Court of Appeals' precedents in this category of judicial discipline and reviews the basis for holding judges accountable for their off-bench actions.
By Josefa Velasquez | October 24, 2017
A Schenectady County Court judge should have recused himself from an appeal taken from his own previous decision, the state's Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.
By Jason Grant | October 23, 2017
The court said that while it has not kept track of sitting justices' ethnicities, court staff with “institutional knowledge” believed that this was a first for Asian-American jurists.
By Zach Warren | October 23, 2017
The judges' panel at Relativity Fest 2017 explored spoliation for Taylor Swift, insurance metadata and the introduction of TAR to Australia.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Richard Emery | October 23, 2017
In his Judicial Conduct column, Richard Emery addresses the issue of using judicial influence which furthers private interests. He reviews three cases recently decided by the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct, which cast a harsh light on the persistent problem of judges using their office to benefit themselves or others.
By Jason Grant | New York Law Journal | October 19, 2017
Justice Anthony Ferrara, who is slated to retire at year's end, will only be doing “chambers work” for the remainder of his judicial career, and he has been demoted to a city criminal court judge position.
By Josefa Velasquez | New York Law Journal | October 19, 2017
The Association of Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of New York has voted to oppose holding a constitutional convention in 2019.
By Josefa Velasquez | October 18, 2017
Paul Feinman on Wednesday was sworn in as an associate judge on the Court of Appeals, New York state's highest court, making him the first openly gay member and filling the vacancy created by the death of Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam last spring.
By Ben Hancock | October 16, 2017
Litigation funders Vannin and Bentham separately announced continued growth in their U.S. operations Monday, with Vannin bringing on several former judges as advisers while Bentham announced hires to oversee a new bankruptcy unit.
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