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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 16, 2022 | New York Law Journal
The Appellate Division, First Department court focused on Dr. Peter Foley Rizzo's failure to "adequately plead proximate causation" as part of his malpractice counterclaim lodged against the Manhattan-based firm of Belair & Evans, which had sued the physician for allegedly unpaid legal fees.
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
December 14, 2022 | New York Law Journal
"It's not a fair process" in general, a former longtime justice said of bar groups' ratings of candidates for positions like chief judge. "Some [committees] have people on them with agendas that they don't reveal," he said.
By Jason Grant
10 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 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
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
November 16, 2022 | New York Law Journal
In twin, terse opinions issued by the Appellate Division, First Department court, Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman were disbarred based on pleading guilty in June to federal charges, including conspiracy to commit third-degree arson, that were "essentially similar" to one or more New York state felonies.
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
November 15, 2022 | New York Law Journal
The landlord had argued any "retroactive application" of New York City's Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 that limited its planned rent hike would be an unconstitutional deprivation of its "preexisting rental-increase rights," according to the decision.
By Jason Grant
3 minute read
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