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Jason Grant is a staff writer covering legal stories and cases for the New York Law Journal, the National Law Journal and Law.com, and a former practicing attorney. He's written and reported previously for the New York Times, the Star-Ledger, the L.A. Times and other publications. Contact him at [email protected]. On Twitter, pls find him @JasonBarrGrant
December 12, 2022 | Law.com
A former Maine prosecutor has been suspended from practicing law for nine months after pleading guilty last March to destroying evidence—text messages from her own cellphone—during an FBI investigation into a $13 million marijuana operation that her next-door neighbor was allegedly part of.
By Jason Grant
4 minute read
December 7, 2022 | New York Law Journal
If Oing gets the position, he will become New York's first Asian-American Court of Appeals justice and its first Asian-American chief judge.
By Jason Grant
8 minute read
December 7, 2022 | Law.com
"In this case, the district court issued a preliminary injunction that, for purposes of litigation in the district court, was final in all but name," wrote U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Judge Raymond Kethledge on behalf of a two-judge majority panel. One judge dissented.
By Jason Grant
6 minute read
December 6, 2022 | New York Law Journal
A state appeals court has denied a Catholic order of friars' motion to dismiss a negligence lawsuit brought against it under New York's groundbreaking Child Victims Act by a 70-year-old man who alleges that in 1963 he was sexually abused as a Brooklyn altar boy. But it has tossed out the man's breach-of-fiduciary-duty claim against the friars.
By Jason Grant
7 minute read
December 5, 2022 | New York Law Journal
Scarola Zubatov Schaffzin's Supreme Court suit based on alleged fraudulent inducement committed by former client Dynamic Credit Partners and its principal, James Finkel, will go forward after the Appellate Division, First Department ruled that "summary judgment should not have been granted to defendants."
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
December 2, 2022 | New York Law Journal
Calling a court-appointed referee's findings "well founded," the Appellate Division, First Department said that the lawyer, "over an eight-year period, submitted 1,185 fraudulent and frivolous I-360 petitions, only one of which was granted."
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
December 2, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer
A Lebanon, Pennsylvania, doctor has agreed to settle a False Claims Act-based lawsuit that alleged he gave patients the COVID-19 vaccine, without doing more, and then billed Medicare for services that were not supported by the medical record.
By Jason Grant
2 minute read
November 30, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer
The ruling appears to settle an open question in Pennsylvania: whether the state common law notion of "scope of employment" is synonymous with an "under the color of law" finding made under the federal civil rights 1983 statute.
By Jason Grant
4 minute read
November 29, 2022 | New York Law Journal
"We agree with the [Attorney Grievance] Committee that respondent's guilty plea and sentence to the federal crime of willful failure to collect or pay over taxes made him no longer eligible for a resignation for non-disciplinary reasons," wrote the Appellate Division, First Department court.
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
November 22, 2022 | New York Law Journal
The effect of the First Department's decision is that a seven-count indictment against the defendant, based in part on him allegedly forging deeds and using them as exhibits in real property actions as part of a fraud scheme targeting the elderly, has been dismissed.
By Jason Grant
6 minute read
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