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Josefa Velasquez is a regulatory and Court of Appeals reporter for the New York Law Journal based in Albany, N.Y. Contact Josefa Velasquez at [email protected]. Twitter: @j__velasquez
November 28, 2017 | New York Law Journal
In further developments in the messy breakup of the heavily advertised personal injury firm, Stephen Barnes claims in an affidavit that partner Ross Cellino got a former Cellino & Barnes employee who now works for a competitor to steal proprietary information and transfer it to Cellino's new website.
By Josefa Velasquez
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November 27, 2017 | New York Law Journal
A Washington County Town Court justice was admonished Monday for failing to disclose the received unsolicited and unsubstantiated ex parte information he presided over, the Commission on Judicial Conduct announced.
By Josefa Velasquez
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November 22, 2017 | New York Law Journal
The state's Court of Appeals ruled that the Battery Park City Authority is a government entity and didn't have legal standing to challenge Jimmy Nolan's Law, a 2009 state law that gave workers who toiled in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers on 9/11, an extra year to file claims against the authority.
By Josefa Velasquez
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November 22, 2017 | New York Law Journal
A task force reconvened by Chief Judge Janet DiFiore to recommend changes to the state's constitution will be co-chaired by her husband, Dennis Glazer, a retired Davis Polk & Wardwell partner and Justice Alan Scheinkman, the administrative judge of the state's Ninth Judicial District.
By Josefa Velasquez
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November 22, 2017 | New York Law Journal
The state's Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has been reviewing parole appeals handled that were handled by an Albany resident who was convicted for fraudulently posing as a lawyer. Antonia Barrone, who is not a licensed attorney, was sentenced to one-and-a-half to three years in state prison on criminal charges earlier this month.
By Josefa Velasquez
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November 21, 2017 | New York Law Journal
The state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the state did not violate the compensation clause of the New York Constitution by reducing its contributions to judges' health insurance premiums, thereby reversing a lower court's decision.
By Josefa Velasquez
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November 21, 2017 | New York Law Journal
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 Josefa Velasquez
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November 19, 2017 | New York Law Journal
A lawsuit filed by Lisa Marie Cater of Buffalo in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Saturday alleges that Sam Hoyt III, former state economic development official and former assemblyman, violated her state and federal civil rights by engaging in sexual harassment, assault and discrimination and retaliation against her. The Cuomo administration denies allegations it ignored Cater's complaints about Hoyt's behavior.
By Josefa Velasquez
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November 17, 2017 | New York Law Journal
Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, a Bronx Democrat who is the new head of the Assembly Judiciary Committee, said in an interview that he's “concerned” that there aren't enough judges in the five boroughs, a matter that he hopes to address in legislation.
By Josefa Velasquez
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November 16, 2017 | New York Law Journal
Antonia Barrone was sentenced before Albany County Court Judge Peter Lynch on one count of first-degree scheme to defraud and ordered to pay nearly $270,000 in restitution and penalties.
By Josefa Velasquez
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