New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joseph W. Bellacosa | November 1, 2023
Early in Law Journal columnist Joseph Bellacosa's tenure at the New York Court of Appeals, a destabilizing financial meltdown was brewing back in the Big Apple. Hugh Carey was sworn in as governor was sworn in that year and he took leadership to get the state legislature to pass emergency temporary relief—a moratorium on the payment of New York City's short-term obligations of approximately $5 billion.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By George Heymann | October 24, 2023
This book is a former Queens prosecutor's tell-all from his early years as an academic "underachiever" to becoming his office's chief ADA, which he considers the highlight of his career.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Cary London | October 24, 2023
The introduction of AI into the core of a trial, where the stakes are high and justice hangs in the balance, can only be described as a danger to the legal profession. The impartiality and expertise of human attorneys cannot be replicated by machines.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Bennett L. Gershman | October 19, 2023
Trump manipulates MAGA rage and resentment to sow chaos, delegitimize the Constitution, demolish the rule of law, destroy institutions of government, imprison political enemies, and purge the federal civil service of responsible people and stack it with his cronies and loyalists.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By David Scher | October 17, 2023
Members of the bench are counted upon to do what is perhaps our state's most important work, while they are compensated at a rate that increasingly lags behind other states.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Elliott Scheinberg, Lawrence Jay Braunstein, Robert Z. Dobrish, Lee Rosenberg and Adam John Wolff | October 16, 2023
The repeated need to correct Toby Kleinman's misinformation is unfair to readers of this publication and to those of us who understand that such misinformation in this very specialized area of law is dangerous to families and children.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By George M. Heymann | October 12, 2023
New York City's Housing Court was created by statute in 1973 to alleviate the vast number of landlord-tenant matters that were overburdening the Civil Court. Without its existence, the Civil Court would have collapsed under its own weight of cases
New York Law Journal | Commentary|Event
By Lisa M. Fisher and Tatiana N. Coffinger | October 10, 2023
It's difficult for any person to pursue a domestic violence case against a spouse or partner, partially because of the psychological coercion the abuser utilizes, but especially so for a woman from a culture with deep-rooted beliefs about corporal punishment in the marital relationship.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Tom Stebbins | October 6, 2023
The U.S. Court of Appeals for Second Circuit's 2021 ruling affirming dismissal of New York City's climate change lawsuit against the oil industry creates a clear road map for California's latest suit to be tossed, the director of the Law Reform Alliance of New York writes.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By William Josephson | October 3, 2023
William Josephson opines on the recent amendment to Election Law Section 12-106, signed by Governor Kathy Hochul on Sept. 20. The amendment adds a paragraph that requires each
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