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June 01, 2007 |

Hospitals Fear Privacy Claims Over Medical Records

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is raising new legal fears for health care providers concerning privacy suits. Labor and employment attorneys are concerned that courts have begun to let plaintiffs use HIPAA standards to prove liability in privacy suits, even though the law doesn't currently provide a private right of action. And a new federal crackdown on HIPAA violators is also causing concerns for health care providers.
4 minute read
August 26, 2009 |

Realty Law Digest

Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein and an adjunct professor at St. John's University School of Law, reviews recent cases of interest, including a suit over a cost-shifting provision in a standard alteration agreement between the proprietary lessee of a co-op apartment and the cooperative corporation, another involving whether an additional five days to cure was needed if the notice to cure was served both by mail and conspicuous place service, and a question of whether a proposed access road was a permitted use.
12 minute read
May 11, 2011 |

Realty Law Digest

Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein, reviews recent cases involving an appeal of a court's granting a Yellowstone injunction nunc pro tunc, a successor liability suit against a retail tenant that relocated its assets and reopened nearby after failing to pay rent, a claim relating to noise and aesthetics associated with antennas on a water tower,
18 minute read
August 06, 2008 |

Realty Law Digest

Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein and an adjunct professor at St. John's University School of Law, analyzes a recent ruling where a tenant's good-faith improvements in anticipation of a renewed lease helped block a landlord's bid to deny renewal in order to speed a sale of the property.
17 minute read
January 08, 2004 |

Immigration Bar Sees Flood of Interest in Bush's Plan

Immigration lawyers across the country got a first taste of what's sure to be a surge of interest from potential clients Wednesday following President Bush's call to ease restrictions on undocumented foreign workers. In between fielding calls from prospective clients, attorneys like Carl Falstrom were busy analyzing the few details available on Bush's call for a temporary worker program and trying to gauge its effect on the relatively small immigration bar.
3 minute read
July 08, 2013 |

Case Summaries

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February 08, 2012 |

Realty Law Digest

Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein and an adjunct professor at St. John's University School of Law, reviews decisions holding that the estate of a woman may not recover money paid to purchase a property from the inheriting joint tenant, who the estate alleged had not equitably contributed to the purchase, and another reversing dismissal of a case in which a landlord alleged a campaign of harassment by tenants.
13 minute read
February 20, 2001 |

City's Documents Confidential Under Texas Open-Records Law

The Texas Supreme Court issued its first interpretation of the recent changes the Texas Legislature made in the state's open-records law. The court ruled documents privileged or confidential under the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure or Texas Rules of Evidence also meet the test for being kept confidential under the new public information law.
5 minute read

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