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Jane Wester is a litigation reporter for the New York Law Journal. Email her at [email protected] or find her on Twitter @janewester.
October 26, 2020 | New York Law Journal
The challenge is holding leaders, rather than individual officers, accountable for police violence.
By Jane Wester
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October 26, 2020 | New York Law Journal
"She just sees things from a thousand different angles all at once, it's hard to keep up with her thought processes," Sullivan & Cromwell partner Sharon Nelles said. "She knows her law cold, she knows the Constitution cold and she's not afraid, if she sees a problem, to go figure out some law that's going to allow her to fix it. She'll find it."
By Jane Wester
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October 22, 2020 | New York Law Journal
Lawyers said they hope the courts are able to scale up and hold more trials at once — only a handful of civil jury trials were held this week in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island, with more coming in Queens and Manhattan next week—but questioned how it could happen logistically.
By Jane Wester
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October 21, 2020 | New York Law Journal
An attorney in the civil division-torts branch of the Justice Department, explained in a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan that he traveled to the hearing from his home in Virginia and was barred entry under New York's coronavirus travel restrictions.
By Jane Wester
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October 20, 2020 | New York Law Journal
Attorney Roberta Kaplan has argued that the government removed the case to federal court in September as part of a "highly irregular maneuver" that came only after President Donald Trump's "state court stall tactics" were rejected.
By Jane Wester
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October 19, 2020 | New York Law Journal
In the case's second trip up the federal ladder, judges in the Southern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit have dismissed as implausible Trump's arguments that the subpoena is overbroad or was issued in bad faith.
By Jane Wester
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October 16, 2020 | New York Law Journal
On its second trip through the federal courts, Trump's attorney William Consovoy of Consovoy McCarthy has argued that the subpoena, which covers eight years of the president's financial records, is overbroad and was issued in bad faith.
By Jane Wester
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October 16, 2020 | New York Law Journal
U.S. Nicholas Garaufis, finding the Cuomo administration policy had its basis in science, denied the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn's request for a preliminary injunction that would have allowed more than 10 people to attend mass at churches in "red zones."
By Jane Wester
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October 15, 2020 | New York Law Journal
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partner Randy Mastro, who is representing the diocese, argued that Cuomo's public statements about rising COVID-19 rates in Orthodox Jewish communities have demonstrated why the executive order should not apply to the Catholic churches of Brooklyn.
By Jane Wester
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October 14, 2020 | New York Law Journal
The archbishop of New York waded into the debate with a blog post.
By Jane Wester
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