New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Darren LaVerne and Jessica Weigel | March 26, 2019
The claim that early production of witness statements threatens to engender perjury and obstruction is based on the notion—inimical to our system of justice—that every person charged with a crime is guilty and likely to flout the law in order to escape punishment. A statute that rests on this presumption is, in 2019, long overdue for reform.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joel Cohen and Gerald B. Lefcourt | March 25, 2019
What is most telling is a message deriving from this investigation for virtually every target vacillating over whether to accept his lawyer's knee jerk, playbook advice to remain silent.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Sol Wachtler | March 12, 2019
Justice Clarence Thomas, in his most recent concurring opinion, again raises the issue of whether “substantive due process” should be used in creating constitutionally protected “rights.”
New York Law Journal | Letter to the Editor
By Roger Bennet Adler | December 12, 2018
Like a drug, the rush of power, influence and wealth can quickly eat away at those whose ethical compass malfunctions (or doesn't exist), and the fall from feeling like a 'master of the universe' to convicted felon can be both personally unexpected and tragic.
New York Law Journal | Letter to the Editor
By Darryl M. Vernon | November 8, 2018
It is fair to point out that there have been abuses by those requesting accommodation animals and that such abuses have entered the “realm of contemporary literature, humor and satire.”
New York Law Journal | Letter to the Editor
By Students and Faculty of Albany Law School | October 10, 2018
Civil rights of any kind are always won the hard way, with painful losses that always seem more visible and more numerous than the wins. But progress is not won from the top down.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joseph Zayas | October 3, 2018
Significantly, this progress occurred without sacrificing superior judicial qualifications at the altar of diversity.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Edward J. Janger and Aaron D. Twerski | September 12, 2018
If Amazon does not wish to be thought the seller, they must make clear that they do not stand behind the product.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Alan D. Scheinkman | September 4, 2018
Starting on Tuesday, Sept. 4, the Second Department's day calendars are expanding from 20 to 24 cases.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Michael Miller | August 27, 2018
These very rights are now under siege in a way that we haven't seen at least since the McCarthy era in the 1950s when individuals' lives were destroyed because of their beliefs.
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