By Allen Shoikhetbrod | July 21, 2023
Last year, President Joe Biden signed the Fiscal Year 2023 Omnibus Spending Bill, which featured two new laws: the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) and the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act (PUMP) Act. This article summarizes some of the key features of both new laws.
By Emily Saul | July 6, 2023
Cosby's defense attorney Jennifer Bonjean argues that the ASA violates due process under both New York state law and the United States Constitution, as well as the Ex Post Facto clause.
By Brian S. Kaplan, Evan D. Parness and Natalie Gagarkina | July 3, 2023
In the wake of the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) proposed nationwide ban on the use of non-compete agreements, the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board's memorandum declaring most non-competes to be in violation of federal labor law, and other states recently enacting measures that ban or limit the use of non-competes, the New York legislature officially joined the fray by proposing its own ban on employee non-compete agreements. This article takes a closer look at the potential impact.
By Jason Grant | June 30, 2023
The New York State Bar Association has created a task force that will make recommendations surrounding difficult end-of-life decisions, focusing in part on New York state's "Medical Aid in Dying" bill, which earlier this month failed to pass through the state legislature for a ninth straight year.
By Brian Lee | June 26, 2023
New York would join four other states with such laws: Minnesota, California, Oklahoma and North Dakota.
By Peter A. Crusco | June 26, 2023
A discussion of the legality and various evidentiary issues concerning digital repositories of prescriptions.
By Brian Lee | June 21, 2023
A measure to ease insurance claims for serious personal injury was OK'd over the objections of those who said it would creat a "fourth bite at the apple."
By Brian Lee | June 16, 2023
The bar, in a recently released report from its Task Force on the Modernization of Criminal Practice, said that "there have been far too many miscarriages of justice at the hands of non-attorney justices in New York."
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Kevin B. Frankel and Jeff Ehrlich | June 15, 2023
The New York State Legislature is fast tracking A.7138 and S.795, a pair of bills expected to radically expand the power of the plaintiffs' bar and the New York Attorney General to punish unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices. The authors write "perhaps the most poignant criticism is that the bills set out to fix a problem that does not exist."
By Brian Lee | June 14, 2023
Court watchers who are critical of the bill package, portions of which were originally cast in the Senate's proposed one-house bill during budget season, say they view them as a threat to judicial independence.
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