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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
August 18, 2017 | New York Law Journal
A special litigation committee cannot be used to determine the fate or direction of derivative claims brought on behalf of a New York limited liability company, unless its use is expressly written into the operating agreement, a Manhattan appeals court has ruled in an important decision of first impression.
By Jason Grant
1 minute read
August 17, 2017 | New York Law Journal
Two veteran lawyers who ran a boutique practice in the Bronx have had their licenses suspended for failing to supervising a bookkeeper—and personal friend of one of the lawyers—who stole more than $2.5 million from firm bank accounts, including escrow accounts.
By Jason Grant
1 minute read
August 16, 2017 | New York Law Journal
A Livingston County town and village justice under investigation for judicial misconduct—including charges he engaged in ex parte contact and threatened to tape shut a defendant's mouth—has resigned from both positions and agreed to never seek judicial office again.
By Jason Grant
1 minute read
August 15, 2017 | New York Law Journal
Milton Mollen, a World War II veteran, a former presiding justice of the Appellate Division, Second Department, and chair of a historic committee that uncovered vast corruption within the New York City Police Department, has died.
By Jason Grant and Andrew Denney
1 minute read
August 15, 2017 | New York Law Journal
A Third Department panel has denied requests by a Massachusetts assistant attorney general and a private lawyer to waive the in-state office requirement of Judiciary Law §470 that would have allowed them to appear in a civil action brought against Massachusetts-based police departments.
By Jason Grant
1 minute read
August 11, 2017 | Daily Business Review
Podhurst Orseck partner Roy Altman files a lawsuit in Miami federal court alleging a tire-wearing alignment defect in VW's luxury midsize sedans.
By Jason Grant
1 minute read
August 10, 2017 | New York Law Journal
Citing his financial hardships and pro bono work, the First Department has chosen to publicly censure, rather than suspend or disbar, a veteran New York lawyer who disregarded some 25 court orders in 11 different federal lawsuits.
By Jason Grant
1 minute read
August 9, 2017 | New York Law Journal
A company that owned a service ramp at the One New York Plaza building's loading dock shouldn't be liable for the injury of a security officer who failed to raise a triable issue of fact regarding negligence in the ramp's construction, a state appeals court has ruled.
By Jason Grant
1 minute read
August 8, 2017 | New York Law Journal
George Bundy Smith, a retired Court of Appeals judge, the author of the state's decision outlawing the death penalty and a civil rights fighter who was arrested in 1961 on a "Freedom Ride" to Alabama, passed away at his home in Harlem on Saturday.
By Jason Grant
1 minute read
August 4, 2017 | New York Law Journal
A Lake George resort must dissolve as a corporation because majority shareholders looted company assets and took oppressive actions toward minority shareholders, such as trying to force them out, an appeals court has ruled.
By Jason Grant
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