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B. Colby Hamilton is a litigation reporter for the New York Law Journal and Law.com.
April 24, 2018
John Chambers, a former prosecutor in the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, marketed himself as a top firearm licensing attorney in New York.
April 23, 2018
Kenneth Lafave resigned in March over claims he behaved inappropriately from the bench during a 2016 eviction case.
April 23, 2018
In an order Monday, an appellate panel vacated the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's rolled-back penalties for automakers who violated fuel efficiency standards.
April 20, 2018
The energy company, facing probes into whether it deceived shareholders and the public over climate change, saw its suit against the attorneys general tossed in late March.
April 20, 2018
The family real estate company previously run by President Trump's son-in-law is being looked at over reports it filed false housing paperwork in New York City.
April 20, 2018
The suit, drawing on the volume of reporting over the issue, seeks to subject Trump campaign officials, as well as Russia, to the civil discovery process.
April 20, 2018
It was the denouement in the riveting drama that played out over two days before U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood : When Davis Wright Tremaine partner Rob Balin convinced the court to compel Michael Cohen's to reveal his third client.
April 19, 2018
Days after appearing in federal court over material seized in a federal raid, Cohen's attorney confirmed he's dropping suits in state and federal court against Buzzfeed, which published the dossier, and the political research group that commissioned it, Fusion GPS.
April 19, 2018
Johnny Hincapie was freed in 2015 after evidence raised questions over his conviction in the 1990 killing of a tourist on a Manhattan subway platform.
April 18, 2018
The attorney general said that state law prevents, absent a court-provided exception, the prosecution of certain crimes already brought along to the point of a plea or a grand jury's swearing in.
April 18, 2018
Cohen's attorneys presented Judge Kimba Wood with a list of four names, all former prosecutors in private practice, while prosecutors with the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office sent over three of their own, all former magistrate judges from the Southern District of New York.
April 18, 2018
Cohen's attorneys presented Judge Kimba Wood with a list of four names, all former prosecutors in private practice, while prosecutors with the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office sent over three of their own, all former magistrate judges from the Southern District of New York.
April 17, 2018
While the Fox News host downplayed his relationship to Cohen on Monday, the network stated Tuesday that Hannity continues to have its "full support."
April 17, 2018
The plaintiffs allege issues arose after the NFL hired Cathy Lanier, the former Washington, D.C., chief of police, as its new security chief in 2016.
April 16, 2018
The reveal in open court upstaged the presence of pornographic actress Stormy Daniels, who attended the hearing before U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood Monday.
April 13, 2018
Counsel for President Trump said she'd only been brought on board Wednesday—two days after the White House, and the world, learned of the government's raid on Trump's attorney's offices.
April 12, 2018
Elizabeth Ann Pierce allegedly forged the signatures on fake agreements showing hundreds of millions in future revenues to lure in two New York firms.
April 12, 2018
District Judge Paul Gardephe conflated the merits of the claims with the issue of standing on an issue in a New York State insurance law that isn't settled by state courts yet.
April 11, 2018
According to the complaint, Chase credit card customers began having their cryptocurrency purchases treated as cash advances beginning in late January.
April 11, 2018
The commission's recommendation comes after it says O'Connor refused to cooperate with its investigation into his actions on the bench.
April 10, 2018
The application of the exception follows rigorous rules, but don't let it distract you from the peril the FBI's raid more broadly puts Trump's attorney in.
April 09, 2018
The raid was confirmed by Cohen's attorney, McDermott Will & Emery partner Stephen Ryan.
April 09, 2018
Citing the U.S. Supreme Court and its own decisions, the panel Monday again sent back down a suit Southern District Judge Katherine Forrest has twice now attempted to close out.
April 06, 2018
The comedian says allegations by the director of the original pilot are both time-barred and simply too general to stick.
April 06, 2018
A new ombudsperson will serve as an outlet for residents, and will have the power to issue relief to enforce violations of the agreement.
April 05, 2018
The voluntary changes by some of the biggest mutual funds come as part of an investigation launched by the Attorney General's Office.
April 05, 2018
The national retailer was alleged to have unfairly excluded qualified African-American and Latino candidates for hire due to automatic rejections over criminal histories.
April 05, 2018
As part of the agreement to end Hassan v. City of New York, the department will extend the protections for communities under the Handschu guidelines across the border into New Jersey.
April 03, 2018
On each point raised by the plaintiffs, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman cited recent case law that showed the challenges facing litigants in class action securities cases.
April 03, 2018
Sohrab Sharma and Robert Farkas told investors they were creating a debit card that would instantly convert cryptocurrency to legal tender, with the backing of Visa and Mastercard. Federal officials say none of it was true.
April 02, 2018
The suit filed in federal court is the latest in a nationwide wave of litigation over recent revelations the firm accessed 50 million user's information ahead of the 2016 presidential campaign.
April 02, 2018
Jessica Denson is asking a Manhattan federal court to nullify her NDA to keep a motion to compel arbitration in a separate state harassment suit from going forward.
April 02, 2018
As an attorney in private practice and a judge, Wexler was known for trying cases rather than settling them. "I tried more cases in civil and criminal courts than any other lawyer in the state,” he once said.
March 30, 2018
The panel said that judicial review is appropriate in issues of abuse of discretion.
March 30, 2018
Gatta was most recently the chief of the Criminal Division of the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's Office, serving as a prosecutor during a renaissance in the office's white-collar practice.
March 29, 2018
The Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office alleged Wednesday that Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates knowingly passed along inflated bills for work done processing foreclosures.
March 29, 2018
U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis found that Trump's disparaging statement's during the campaign were enough to justify proceeding under an equal protection claim.
March 29, 2018
During a press conference in Rochester, the AG connected the four-fold increase of New Yorkers who've had their information exposed to the issues now faced by reports about breaches at Facebook and Equifax.
New York Law Journal |In Brief
March 28, 2018
Jason Nissen pleaded guilty to a single count of wire fraud, after being charged with taking more than $60 million from investors he said was going to his premium ticket business.
March 28, 2018
The company allegedly got paid for long-term care services it had contracted out for nearly 200 enrollees, even as some of the patients never received any of the services.
March 27, 2018
Shaohua "Michael" Yin directed a scheme that generated more than $29 million in profits off of nonpublic information about the upcoming media deal, the SEC has alleged.
March 27, 2018
The suit by the National Fair Housing Alliance and other advocate groups alleges that the social media company allows landlords and realtors to block protected groups from access to housing ads, in violation of the Fair Housing Act.
March 26, 2018
Last month New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli announced the state's pension funds were suing Wynn Resorts over its handling of sexual harassment allegations against its former CEO, Steve Wynn.
March 26, 2018
Queens attorney Scott Brettschneider allegedly had a law assistant claim to be the client's drug counselor in a letter seeking admittance into a prison drug program.
March 23, 2018
A circuit panel sided with both the defense and the government, who said the 300 hours a year for each of the defendant's three-year supervised release was excessive.
March 23, 2018
The investment bank's agreement represents the fourth penalty driven by investigations by the attorney general's office into electronic and high-frequency trading.
March 22, 2018
Prosecutors say Eric Luna and Igor Goldshteyn were in charge of acquiring phones for their respective departments, but then took some of those phones and sold them online for personal profit.
March 21, 2018
Former prosecutors from Manhattan and Brooklyn note that Sessions didn't appear to offer new interpretations of capital punishment statutes, meaning prosecutors were still operating with laws largely targeting violent gangs and terrorist.
New York Law Journal |In Brief
March 21, 2018
AG Eric Schneiderman's office said the bank knowingly sold toxic residential mortgage-backed securities in the lead up to the housing crisis.
March 21, 2018
Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, sued claiming a September 2016 Yahoo article amounted to defamation, tortious interference with business relations and terrorism transcending national boundaries.
March 20, 2018
Two new positions and a new committee inside the Law Department will look to target areas of litigation to promote social policies.
March 20, 2018
Researchers aim to use the study, stretching back to 1990, to help school and law enforcement officials with policies and plans.
March 16, 2018
The panel said the lower threshold found by the state's Court of Appeals should have meant a district court allowed damages under the city's Human Rights Law to be sought.
March 16, 2018
Two female Muslim plaintiffs claim they were forced to remove their hijabs after being arrested, despite their stated religious prohibitions.
March 15, 2018
Eberhard Reichert, a German citizen, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act before U.S. District Judge Denise Cote.
March 15, 2018
The lawsuit on behalf of seven Latina workers in upstate New York claims supervisors at a snack company plant subjected them to regular sexual and gender-based harassment over the course of years.
March 14, 2018
Judge Crotty said the repercussions for attorney Joshua Paul's actions sufficed as proper punishment.
March 14, 2018
In a letter Tuesday, the judge asked the government to explain why First Amendment protections it agreed kept other official accounts from blocking people didn't apply to Trump's.
March 14, 2018
The parents allege the company’s publication of the initial story—which was later retracted but not before fueling an online conspiracy theory—made them “collateral damage in a political war to which they are innocent bystanders.”
March 13, 2018
Convicted Bonanno crime family member Anthony Donato sought to have documents from the trial of his former boss, “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano, to help with his post-conviction legal efforts.
March 12, 2018
Pinchus Raice could have had his career ruined after the FDIC leveled a $100,000 civil penalty against him. Instead, he faced regulators in their own administrative court and won, securing a settlement from the banking oversight corporation for $1.5 million.
March 12, 2018
The assistant U.S. attorney was most recently chief of the office's national security and cybercrime section.
March 12, 2018
The state argued that a federal agency was wrong when it said the Department of Environmental Conservation had waived its oversight of the project by failing to decide on the application within a mandated one-year time frame.
March 09, 2018
What’s left of the former investment bank Lehman Brothers will be responsible for $2.38 billion in compensation to hedge funds and institutional investors who were hurt by the bank’s actions leading up to the financial crisis a decade ago.
March 08, 2018
In a letter to U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel, the SEC said it was dismissing its case against Tianyi Wei, without explaining its reasoning.
March 07, 2018
The cited lawsuit, from the Nixon era, was reversed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which found the lower court did have the power to compel the president.
March 07, 2018
In filings Tuesday, the state and city argued that interests of the EPA didn't line up with their own, pointing to respective cost issues and the power to create state-based regulations.
March 06, 2018
Orrick's Gregory Morvillo, in motion papers and before the court, argued that's the very kind of misconduct assistant U.S. attorneys committed against his client.
March 05, 2018
Recent settlements with two of three New Jersey border towns sued over their attempts to block the enclosures known as eruvs have settled, even as a town across the border in New York recently announced similar considerations.
New York Law Journal |In Brief
March 02, 2018
Joseph Scali was convicted on all 10 counts against him, including charges stemming from an attempt to misappropriate $850,000 held in escrow.
March 02, 2018
Joseph Scali was convicted on all 10 counts against him, including charges stemming from an attempt to misappropriate $850,000 held in escrow.
March 02, 2018
The panel agreed that the Bethpage Water District had waited too long to file suit to, in part, force the defense company to pay for recent water contamination cleanup.
March 02, 2018
According to federal officials, the Picasso work was meant to help launder some $9 million worth of illicit funds.
February 28, 2018
The request from the Department of Financial Services is only the latest attempt by regulators, prosecutors and other government officials into the the financial dealings of President Donald Trump's son-in-law.
February 27, 2018
The recording service TVEyes argued that its recording and archiving of searchable Fox News programming represented a fair use of the cable news company's content. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit disagreed.
February 26, 2018
The full court heard a review of a July 2017 three-panel decision that found long-standing prohibitions against including sexual orientation under the cover of workplace discrimination law.
February 23, 2018
The Second Circuit revived claims made by an umbrella group of Charles Schwab subsidiaries against the banks alleged to have manipulated the benchmark London Interbank Offered Rate to their advantage in the wake of the global financial crisis.
February 23, 2018
The panel found that ample alternatives were in place for utilizing gun ranges, competing in shooting tournaments and possessing an additional firearm at a home outside the city.
February 21, 2018
Jon Montroll's now-defunct BitFunder allegedly misappropriated cryptocurrency deposits even before hackers stole over 6,000 of the digital currency.
February 20, 2018
Former Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny has already gotten prosecutors to agree that his bribery charges in the sprawling pill mill scheme should be reduced.
February 16, 2018
Three Israelis, along with a U.S.-based accounting firm and attorney, agreed to a settlement and disgorgements totaling nearly $2 million.
February 16, 2018
The famed art collector's grandson stands accused of looting the estate for his own personal gains.
February 15, 2018
Karan was debarred last November by an appellate grievance committee over his actions.
February 15, 2018
The nation's fifth-largest bank acknowledged its deficiencies in properly reviewing transactions to check for suspicious activity.
February 15, 2018
The panel found that the state's interest and neutral application of its regulation of charitable organizations overcame any chilling effect and prior restraint concerns by Citizens United.
February 13, 2018
The decision by the Eastern District judge adds another layer to the court-ordered halt of the Trump administration's attempted wind-down of the deferred immigration action program.
February 13, 2018
The suit details allegations of harassment, intimidation, and a culture of misogyny that's led to fewer women getting hired, and virtually none present at the company's upper echelons.
February 13, 2018
A "crown jewel" lock-up right to Xerox's assets in the Asia-Pacific market effectively blocks any chance of a transparent and fair sale process, according to Deason Capital Services' president.
February 09, 2018
The Second Circuit vacated Arab Bank's Hamas terrorism verdict but 597 plaintiffs are still set to receive a substantial settlement.
February 08, 2018
According to public defenders, the 27-year-old was arrested while challenging a misdemeanor assault charge, and was seeking a green card through his wife, who is a U.S. citizen.
February 07, 2018
The plaintiff claimed that her great-granduncle and aunt were forced to sell Picasso's "The Artist" under duress as they fled Nazi Germany and fascist Italy.
February 06, 2018
The lawsuit comes after discovery in a separate case found security footage of an employee’s medical exam.
February 06, 2018
The commission, appointed by Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, identified long-standing issues likely to be compounded by a new law providing low-income tenants a right to counsel.
February 02, 2018
Nicholas Genovese lied about his education and work experience in the financial industry to dupe investors into entrusting him with millions.
February 02, 2018
The settlement is the latest win in the suit against the Brazilian energy giant.
February 02, 2018
In a letter reviewed by the New York Law Journal, organizations are asked to sign on as supporters of the criminal justice reforms announced during Cuomo's State of the State speech.
February 01, 2018
The initiative is based on a pilot program for 16- and 17-year-old offenders that launched three years ago in northern Manhattan.
January 31, 2018
DiCarmine was acquitted in 2017 at a second jury trial of fraud and conspiracy charges related to the collapse of the firm five years prior.
January 30, 2018
In a sprawling hearing to address competing motions for an injunction by plaintiffs and dismissal by DOJ over the DACA wind-down, U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis once again took aim at statements made by the Trump administration.
January 30, 2018
Members of the defense bar see the two-year trend as troubling. But observers say the court, with so many new members, is all but sure to correct course going forward under the leadership of Chief Judge Janet DiFiore.
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