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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
July 11, 2017 | New York Law Journal
Southern District Judge Paul Crotty found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement retained certain responsibilities to provide detainees with adequate medical care despite having delegated duties to the Orange County Correctional Facility.
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July 10, 2017 | New York Law Journal
Fed up Long Island Rail Road commuters have leveled a class action lawsuit against the MTA, claiming that chronically delayed, canceled and inadequate service amounts to breach of contract and even intentional infliction of emotional distress.
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July 7, 2017 | New York Law Journal
Judge Lorna Schofield ruled that both statute of limitations and insufficient evidence were "independent grounds" for granting summary judgment dismissal of claims against Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman brought by a former employee.
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July 7, 2017 | New York Law Journal
A man serving a 25-year sentence will get a new trial because Bronx prosecutors failed to obtain leave from the court before re-presenting his case to a grand jury, leading to an unlawful murder charge, an appeals court has ruled.
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July 6, 2017 | New York Law Journal
In the 18 months that Daniel Arshack has represented a Bronx woman charged with murdering her husband, he has been adamant that notes taken by caseworkers who interviewed her children would prove crucial to her defense. Last week, the First Department recognized his client's rights to share them within the confines of the attorney-client relationship. But if the case were in the Second Department, he would not have been allowed to see them.
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July 3, 2017 | New York Law Journal
A Long Island man is set to be released from his 25-year sentence for child sexual assault because an Eastern District judge found that state prosecutors withheld evidence at trial about a detective's long history of allegedly coercing and falsifying confessions.
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June 30, 2017 | New York Law Journal
A new trial must be held because a judge in a medical malpractice case failed to adequately answer questions from the jury about what evidence it could consider when determining plaintiff's proper care, an appeals court said.
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June 29, 2017 | New York Law Journal
A former cab driver has been awarded $6.6 million two months after a liability jury found that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey failed to shut down sprinklers at John F. Kennedy International Airport, causing a road to freeze and cars to crash.
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June 28, 2017 | New York Law Journal
A former upstate town justice cannot be held liable for allegedly mishandling court fees and failing to keep accurate books because his actions were cloaked with judicial immunity, a state appeals court has ruled.
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June 28, 2017 | New York Law Journal
A New York appeals court has ruled that the mother of a woman severely injured at a music festival can discover ticket sales records and compel the defendants, who are represented by the same legal counsel, to address conflicts of interest.
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