By C. Ryan Barber | December 14, 2017
"We are 5-0 against the Trump administration because they often fail to follow the law when taking executive action," the Washington state attorney general said in a statement that vowed swift legal action.
By Jeff Storey | December 14, 2017
Justice Karen Peters, who has reached the mandatory retirement age of 70, and will end a 34-year judicial career at the end of this month, never has had trouble asserting herself.
By Jason Grant | December 11, 2017
A related penalty, that psychiatrist Zeinab Elbaz be evaluated by a professional medical conduct committee to determine whether she should undergo a psychiatric evaluation herself, was also not disproportionate.
By Josefa Velasquez | December 8, 2017
A spokeswoman for ICE said Friday that the agents pursue arrests of undocumented immigrants in courthouses because the facilities provide a “far safer” environment for everyone involved, responding to calls by legal advocacy groups for state courts to impose limits on the practice.
New York Law Journal | Letter to the Editor
By Dennis Boshnack | December 8, 2017
What is puzzling about DOF's volunteering to cancel the fines is not just that the fines total tens of millions of dollars but that DOF routinely treats misdescription of information required by VTL 238(2) as an affirmative defense, not a jurisdictional defect.
By Jason Grant | December 5, 2017
Advocates for the clock say the decision is a monumental one: They argue that it makes clear that the city Landmarks Preservation Commission may prevent the residential privatization of interior landmarks, of which there are 117 across New York City.
By Josefa Velasquez | Colby Hamilton | December 5, 2017
As the number of arrests at courthouses by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers continue to rise under the Trump Administration, a report released Tuesday by the Fund for Modern Courts suggests New York's courts should limit the cooperation and assistance they provide to ICE officers in the courthouses.
By Susan DeSantis | November 28, 2017
Justice Douglas McKeon will take over as presiding justice of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court, First Department, and Justice Matthew Cooper has been made an associate justice on that court.
By Josefa Velasquez | November 21, 2017
New York's highest court overruled an Appellate Division, Fourth Department, ruling Monday on whether Family Court has jurisdiction to conduct a permanency hearing once an underlying neglect petition has been dismissed for failure to prove neglect.
By Susan DeSantis | November 17, 2017
The constitutional convention was soundly rejected by voters and they won't get another chance to approve one for 20 years. But that doesn't mean the judiciary can't work with the Legislature and the voters to enact reforms anyway, Chief Judge Janet DiFiore has decided.
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