By Charles Toutant | February 1, 2018
The suit claims the city denied a zoning variance for construction of a mosque based on anti-Muslim bias.
By Anthony S. Guardino | January 23, 2018
In his Zoning and Land Use Planning column, Anthony Guardino discusses "Matter of Save America's Clocks v. City of New York," where the Appellate Division, First Department issued a significant decision involving the proposed conversion of an interior landmark into a private residence.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Michael Rikon | December 22, 2017
In his Condemnation and Tax Certiorari column, Michael Rikon writes: On appeal of a condemnation or tax certiorari case, what exactly is the appellate court standard of review? The answer is not that simple.
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 Andrew Denney | December 4, 2017
The New York City government has brokered a settlement with fair housing advocates in an 8-year-old case involving proposed housing developments in Brooklyn that a judge said favored white and Hasidic residents over blacks and Hispanics.
New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Anthony S. Guardino | November 21, 2017
In his Zoning and Land Use Planning column, Anthony S. Guardino discusses how more and more local governments throughout the state are relying on a 1999 Court of Appeals decision to enact zoning changes that preserve open space and other natural resources.
By Monika Gonzalez Mesa | November 1, 2017
The three started at Greenspoon on Wednesday after their former firm, New York-based Wormser Kiely Galef & Jacobs, dissolved. Other lawyers from Wormser have been hired by several New York firms.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Michael Rikon | October 30, 2017
In his Condemnation and Tax Certiorari column, Michael Rikon writes: Courts rarely grant summary judgment motions in a condemnation case. The reason is that the issue of just compensation presents an inherent issue of fact for the court to be determined on the evidence presented which usually is focused on a written appraisal.
By Josefa Velasquez | October 20, 2017
The state Court of Appeals on Thursday reversed a February 2016 order by the Appellate Division, First Department, that Muss Development was not required to return a prospective buyer's nearly $4 million deposit on a parcel of land in Staten Island.
By Scott Flaherty | New York Law Journal | October 16, 2017
The sewer district in New York's Rockland County is looking for more than $8.8 million in a malpractice lawsuit alleging its former law firm, Nixon Peabody, botched a long-running eminent domain dispute.
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