Federal Judiciary

LexPress: Judge in Danger?

Posted on July 30, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 07-30-08 A report on an apparent plot against a Suffolk Justice. And another judge recuses himself from Donald Trump's lawsuit against the State over being denied a permit to build a catering hall at Long Beach...

LexPress: Al Sharpton Fights On

Posted on July 29, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 07-29-08 Al Sharpton decided to go to trial to fight disorderly conduct charges stemming from organized protests in the wake of the acquittal of three officers in the Sean Bell shooting trial...

LexPress: Return of the Jedi

Posted on July 28, 2008
By  Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 07-28-08 A Brooklyn judge allows a terrorism case to continue against a woman charged with providing material support for a group that has worked with the U.S. military in Iraq. In other news, The New York Post challenges the appointment of former Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Helen Freedman to the Appellate Division, and a venerable former Southern District Judge, Charles Brieant, passes away at the age of 85.

LexPress: Lazy Lawyers and Landlords

Posted on July 25, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 07-25-08 Rebuking excessive legal fees, Southern District Judge Alvin Hellerstein tosses four lucrative settlements in cases filed on behalf of 9/11 victims. In other news, a Manhattan judge makes a first impression ruling in the case of an allegedly illegal immigrant being evicted from his rent controlled apartment in apparent violation of the city's Human Rights Law.

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LexPress: A Jibe and a Tribe

Posted on July 24, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 07-24-08 A Manhattan judge rules against a group of taxpayers seeking a judicial inquiry into the City Council for its practice of earmarking funds to fictitious groups. In other news, the Justice Department pulls all stops in an effort to get a casino built in Buffalo...

TAMPER-PROOFBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com

Posted on July 23, 2008
TAMPER-PROOFBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 07-23-08Justice Richard D. Carruthers let prosecutors get away with piling on one too many charges against a lawyer who helped a con man loot over $27 million from the Evergreen Securities Fund, the Appellate Division said...

LexPress: Bloody Knives and the Rosenbergs

Posted on July 23, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 07-23-08 Eastern District Judge John Gleeson sets a standard for allowing certain criminal defendants access to post conviction DNA evidence. In other news, a Manhattan judge refuses to unseal the grand jury testimony of a controversial witness in the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg atomic espionage case.

Car Wars

Posted on July 22, 2008
By Leah Nelsonlnelson@judicialstudies.com  Posted 07-23-08 One Brooklyn AJ made a parking promise no one has kept. And the current AJ, with a little help from one colleague, seems to have done as much harm as good. What now?

LexPress: Lions and Lambs

Posted on July 22, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 07-22-08 Former Southern District Judge Charles Brieant has died. In other news, the Appellate Division gets set to hear an appeal from a Manhattan Supreme Court judge's order to the Legislature to raise judicial salaries...

LexPress: Of Cronies and Rent Control

Posted on July 21, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 07-21-08 The New York Daily News exposes the mismanagement of estates lacking wills in the Bronx, where a surrogate judge is under investigation. In other news, The New York Times profiles a Bronx apartment building where numerous, some say too many, public officials have scored rent controlled apartments.

LexPress: Shams and Scams

Posted on July 18, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 07-18-08 The Second Circuit tosses a man's gun possession conviction after a judge suggested prosecutors introduce new evidence during jury deliberations. In other news, SDNY Judge Jed Rakoff goes off on a potential lead plaintiff in a securities fraud class-action case.

Price Fight ? Live!

Posted on July 17, 2008
By Jason Boogjasonboog@judicialstudies.comPosted 07-17-08 The referee in Thursday's judge salary slugfest seemed to be leaning to one side.

LexPress: Reasonable Regulations Required

Posted on July 17, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 07-17-08 A Brooklyn judge upholds New York's "reasonable" fire arm permit regulations. In other news, a Manhattan judge rules that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's "cavalier" attitude during a sex case against his former chief counsel does not mean he has to foot the bill for the State's settlement in the case.

Price Fight

Posted on July 16, 2008
By Jason Boogjasonboog@judicialstudies.comPosted 07-16-08As the judicial salary fight reaches the final rounds, both sides are on the offense. One wants you to think of judges as high-end clerks. The other wants you to think of them as altruists who gave up a corner office at some large firm...

LexPress: Diabolical Schemes

Posted on July 16, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 07-16-08 Judith Leekin is sentenced for her "diabolical" adoption scam. In other news, a Sullivan County judge issues a stern warning to the Legislature about a loophole in the state's law protecting mental disabled children from sexual abuse...

REVERSAL REPORT FOR JULY 16By Mark

Posted on July 15, 2008
REVERSAL REPORT FOR JULY 16By Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 07-16-08

LexPress: Adopting a Lavish Lifestyle

Posted on July 15, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 07-15-08 A woman who bilked the State's adoption system out of nearly $2 million will be sentenced today in Manhattan Federal Court. In other news, the standoff between New York State and foes of the Seneca Indian Nation's casino in Buffalo continues.

LexPress: Peripheral Damages

Posted on July 14, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 07-14-08 The state Independence Party chimes in on the judicial pay raise debate. In other news, despite a federal court ruling, New York State continues to defend the Seneca Indian Nation's casino in Buffalo...

LexPress: It's the Economy, Stupid

Posted on July 11, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 07-11-08 A stale economy might have been responsible for the shelving of number of judicially-themed bills before the State legislature this year. In other news, a Town Justice is accused of stealing $155 in fines from his own court.

LexPress: The Judiciary Strikes Back

Posted on July 10, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comand Jason Boogjasonboog@judicialstudies.comPosted 07-09-08 The judge salary imbroglio takes a new turn, and a prosecutor is sentenced as a "disgusting monster."

An Undisciplined System

Posted on July 09, 2008
By Leah Nelsonlnelson@judicialstudies.com  Posted 07-09-08The system for adjudicating accusations of misconduct against attorneys sounds relatively fair and efficient on its face. So why does the system put such a mask on its administration?

BURNED BY GRASSOBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com

Posted on July 09, 2008
BURNED BY GRASSOBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 07-09-08Justice Charles E. Ramos, the most often-reversed judge in New York County Supreme Court’s Commercial Division so far this year, picked up another reversal—in the Appellate Division ruling dismissing the last remaining causes of action in the long-running suit over former New York Stock Exchange Chairman Richard Grasso’s hefty paycheck...

LexPress: Gambling with the Law

Posted on July 09, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 07-09-08 A Western District Judge rules the Seneca Indians must halt construction on a massive casino in Buffalo. In other news, the Fourth Department vacates a drug conviction and accuses the Chautauqua District Attorney's Office of prosecutorial misconduct.

LexPress: The Remains Remain the Same

Posted on July 08, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 07-08-08 Southern District Judge Alvin Hellerstein rejects a variety of claims by the group WTC Families over the mishandling of 9/11 remains at the closed Fresh Kills landfill.

LexPress: Lessening Budgets And Sentences

Posted on July 07, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 07-07-08 City District Attorneys and the Legal Aid Society will have to get by will reduced funds next year. In other news, Iraq war veteran's groups look to take an innovative Buffalo veteran's Treatment Court national.

LexPress: Missiles, Muslims, and Azerbaijani Oil

Posted on July 03, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 07-03-08The Second Circuit upholds the convictions of two Albany-area Muslim immigrants who were caught in a government sting operation's fictitious terror plot. 

When Judges Get the Blues

Posted on July 02, 2008
By Jason Boogjasonboog@judicialstudies.comPosted 07-02-08Judges are expected to be fair but firm, empathetic but efficient. But with a crushing workload and an often ungrateful public, what happens when a member of the bench reaches the breaking point? A special report on the mental health of the judiciary.

INTENT MATTERSBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com

Posted on July 02, 2008
INTENT MATTERSBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 07-02-08The Appellate Division has reversed two more convictions handed down by New York City trial judges for depraved indifference murder. They are the latest in a stream of reversals of convictions flowing from a series of Court of Appeals decisions, issued between 2004 and 2006...

LexPress: Ellicotville Town Justice Resigns Under Pressure

Posted on July 02, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comand Leah Nelsonlnelson@judicialstudies.com Posted: 07-02-08 Ellicotville Town Justice June P. Chapman resigns, dodging likely sanctions by the Commission on Judicial Conduct. In other news, the Appellate Division dismisses the remaining charges against former New York Stock Exchange chairman Dick Grasso, and former Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Michael Garson is sentenced for his role in depleting his aunt's estate.

LexPress: When Guardians Need Guarding

Posted on July 01, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 07-01-08 A Brooklyn judge lowers the boom on one of former judge John Phillips' profiteering law guardians. In other news, the state declines to retry Martin Tankleff, who was exonerated in December for the murder of his parents.

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