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Jason Grant is a staff writer covering legal stories and cases for the New York Law Journal, the National Law Journal and Law.com, and a former practicing attorney. He's written and reported previously for the New York Times, the Star-Ledger, the L.A. Times and other publications. Contact him at [email protected] On Twitter, pls find him @JasonBarrGrant
May 22, 2023 | New York Law Journal
The Appellate Division, First Department court indicated the defamation bar was high under state law for "matters of legitimate public concern." It explained that the former high-ranking Gawker editor hadn't cleared the bar in a complaint that contends The Daily Beast's article about her "destroyed" her career and made her "essentially unemployable."
By Jason Grant
6 minute read
April 13, 2023 | New York Law Journal
The lawyer for Stormy Daniels is trying to get Donald Trump's co-lead defense lawyer pushed off the "hush-payments" case, and Trump's attorney is firing back, telling the New York Law Journal late Wednesday that he's written to the judge to complain that Daniels' lawyer has engaged in the unauthorized practice of law.
By Jason Grant
7 minute read
March 23, 2023 | New York Law Journal
Citing a "substantiated excuse" of law office failure, a state appeals court has reversed a lower court's dismissal of what is believed to be the first lawsuit lodged under New York City's "revenge porn" law, which was instituted in 2018.
By Jason Grant
7 minute read
July 20, 2022 | Law.com
"The predominance requirement prevents certification when complex and diverse individual issues would overwhelm or confuse a jury or severely compromise a party's ability to preset other viable claims or defenses," wrote the appellate panel.
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
July 6, 2022 | New York Law Journal
John N. Iannuzzi, who has been practicing law for about 60 years, had argued to the state appellate court that "he does not pose a threat to the public interest because he simply misunderstood how to properly manage his escrow account," according to the decision.
By Jason Grant
6 minute read
May 25, 2022 | New York Law Journal
The ruling, hailed as a victory by Attorney General Letitia James, comes one day after yet another mass shooting has shaken the United States, this one the killing of 19 children and two teachers by a lone gunman rampaging through a Texas school.
By Jason Grant
6 minute read
May 18, 2022 | Texas Lawyer
The First Department's attorney grievance committee had opposed Ahern in his move to have a disbarment made retroactive to 2016, because he hadn't reported his felony conviction to the state court system until more than four years after his conviction. But the Appellate Division court did rule that the disbarment would be retroactive.
By Jason Grant
4 minute read
February 15, 2022 | New York Law Journal
A state appeals court has reversed the trial court and ruled that a retaliation claim lodged by an African American former administrator at a fertility clinic can go forward because a factual question exists about the timing of the administrator's complaints of discrimination and her firing.
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
January 7, 2022 | Texas Lawyer
"Frontier Justice's rationale for its head covering policy is pretextual insofar as the policy's goal is to exclude some Muslims from Defendants' gun range," the complaint states. The plaintiff is represented in part by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
By Jason Grant
6 minute read
December 21, 2021 | New York Law Journal
The detective and his anti-vaccination attorney, Patricia Finn, say they will go to federal court to seek an order making their state-court bench ruling for a TRO applicable to all city employees who haven't gotten a vaccine shot. They argue the Mayor Bill de Blasio's vaccine requirement violates employees' constitutional right to give informed consent.
By Jason Grant
6 minute read
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