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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
September 1, 2022 | New York Law Journal
Apparently, due to the neglect of the visa matter, the client musician and his family at one point were placed in U.S. removal proceedings, according to the Appellate Division, First Department court's opinion suspending the lawyer.
By Jason Grant
4 minute read
August 31, 2022 | New York Law Journal
In suspending the attorney pending further possible discipline, New York's Appellate Division, First Department court wrote that he'd defaulted in an attorney grievance committee's disciplinary proceeding brought against him, and it deemed the eight charges of professional misconduct "admitted."
By Jason Grant
4 minute read
August 31, 2022 | Law.com
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Curtis E.A. Karnow based his decision on California's litigation-privilege statute, calling the law "very broad" and writing that it bars "on its face" the DA offices' restitution and injunction-based case against Potter Handy.
By Jason Grant
6 minute read
August 30, 2022 | Law.com
The three-judge panel stated that "there is substantial evidence to support the district court's conclusion that the [Arkansas] Act prohibits medical treatment that conforms with the recognized standard of care. Even international bodies that consider hormone treatment for adolescents to be 'experimental' have not banned the care covered by Act 626."
By Jason Grant
6 minute read
August 29, 2022 | New York Law Journal
"There are opportunities for a more holistic review of criminal practice and the criminal justice system through the post-COVID lens," said New York State Bar Association President Sherry Levin Wallach in announcing the 30-member task force.
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
August 26, 2022 | New York Law Journal
A former Baker McKenzie partner and senior counsel, who at one point oversaw the law firm's New York office, has been disbarred in New York state in a matter of reciprocal discipline from Washington, D.C., where he was accused of "reckless misappropriation" as counsel to and personal representative of an estate.
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
August 24, 2022 | New York Law Journal
It appeared "the selection of a fairly junior judge on the court reflects disharmony among the judges on the court, because it is a real break with tradition, which is to chose the senior judge," said Albany Law School Professor Vincent Bonventre.
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
August 24, 2022 | Law.com
The officers "appear[] to conflate ambiguity about the facts in this case for purposes of whether there is a genuine issue of material fact ... with ambiguity from the officers' perspective about what the victim [the man arrested] was up to" as they gave him orders during the traffic stop and then arrested him after pinning him to the ground, wrote the majority panel.
By Jason Grant
6 minute read
August 23, 2022 | New York Law Journal
"This court would not tolerate a business owner proclaiming in the name of free speech or free expression that its business is open to whites only," wrote the bar association in a 23-page amicus brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court. "Nor should it tolerate a business owner communicating to the public that only one man and one woman may use its wedding services."
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
August 22, 2022 | New York Law Journal
"For some reason, the format never took hold in New York state, but the time has come for practitioners to embrace this common sense convention," said Jonathan Lupkin, a Commercial Division Advisory Council member and a nearly 30-year veteran of commercial-litigation practice.
By Jason Grant
6 minute read
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