Federal Judiciary

LexPress: Morgenthau Responds

Posted on June 30, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 06-30-08 Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau responds to a New York Times story about a skeptical prosecutor who says he tanked a case against a man he believed to be innocent. 

LexPress: The Sarcasm of Judge Pines

Posted on June 27, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 06-27-08 The Commission on Judicial Conduct admonishes a Broome County judge for using sarcastic and angry language.

LexPress: Judge Complaint Scorecard

Posted on June 26, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 06-26-08 New York's judge police are getting more complaints, but finding fewer that merit investigation. And the Court of Appeals tosses most of the charges against former New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso...

Foreclosure Courts: Fix or Fake?

Posted on June 25, 2008
By Leah Nelsonlnelson@judicialstudies.comPosted 06-25-08 The court system has asked judges to help solve the homeowner loan crisis. Problem is, judges don't have the authority to suspend the laws of economics or the ability to make invisible litigants appear out of thin air.

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MORE PROSE, LESS POETRYBy Mark

Posted on June 25, 2008
MORE PROSE, LESS POETRYBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 06-25-08New York County Justice Edward J. McLaughlin imperiled yet another criminal case, the Appellate Division ruled last week, because he laid down the law to the jury with a poetic flourish of his own rather than hewing to the boring, standardized jury instructions...

LexPress: The Ground Zero Common Cold

Posted on June 25, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 06-25-08 A review of the medical records of the 10,000 ground zero clean up workers suing New York City finds that 30 percent of the claims are for nothing more than common cold symptoms. In other news, federal prosecutors release grand jury testimony in the atomic spy case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg...

LexPress: Supreme Denial

Posted on June 24, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 06-24-08 The U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear an appeal in the Atlantic Yards case. In other news, a judge allows the Times Square naked cowboy's copyright infringement case against candy maker Mars Inc...

LexPress: Morganthau's Mole

Posted on June 23, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 06-23-08 An attorney in District Attorney Robert Morganthau's office purposefully loses a case. In other news, the Indian couple from Muttontown, Long Island convicted of harboring slaves will be sentenced later this week...

LexPress: Sorry About That, Chief

Posted on June 20, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 06-20-08 The search is on for a new Chief Judge. In other news, the City subpoenas the very same videos that helped bolster activists' claims that they were unfairly arrested at the 2004 Republican National Convention.

LexPress: Foreclosure Fallout

Posted on June 19, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 06-19-08 Chief Judge Judith Kaye implements a program designed to educate homeowners facing foreclosure and move such cases through the courts. In other news, a settlement is finalized in a closely watched wage discrimination case...

SANCTIONING THE SANCTIONERBy Mark

Posted on June 18, 2008
SANCTIONING THE SANCTIONERBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 06-18-08For the fourth time this year, the Appellate Division rapped Bronx County Justice Alison Y. Tuitt for too harshly sanctioning a defendant in a tort suit for relatively minor violations of discovery orders...

Policing the Judge Police: Part II

Posted on June 18, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted 06-18-08 Litigants are prevented, under the doctrine of judicial immunity, from suing jurists over the content of their decisions. But when it comes to discipline, the Commission on Judicial Conduct doesn't feel similarly constrained.

LexPress: Public Safety and Power Plants

Posted on June 18, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 06-18-08 The battle continues over what to do about hundreds of inmates whose post-release supervision was ruled invalid by the Court of Appeals. In other news, an Administrative Law Judge nixes a mega merger between global and regional energy giants.

LexPress: Not Liable for Libel

Posted on June 17, 2008
By Jason Boogjasonboog@judicialstudies.comPosted 06-17-08One judge saves an appellate jurist from a libel suit, while another judge saves the Bush administration from a security suit.  

On the Road Again

Posted on June 16, 2008
By Jason Boogjasonboog@judicialstudies.comPosted 06-16-08The Long Island highways become a hotbed of litigation this week, while a dog loses $10 million in Manhattan courts.  

LexPress: The Oath of Truthfulness and Jacuzzis

Posted on June 13, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 06-13-08 Albany DAs ponder a possible wave of criminal reversals. In other news, former Brooklyn assemblywoman Diane Gordon is imprisoned for attempting to bribe a contractor to build her a free house.

LexPress: The Lehner Linkage

Posted on June 12, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 06-12-08 Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Edward Lehner orders a pay raise for 1300 New York judges. In other news, Lehner has been asked to dismiss a similar suit seeking a judicial pay raise, filed by Chief Judge Judith Kaye...

Selective Judicial Prosecution?

Posted on June 11, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted 06-11-08 Misconduct by Town and Village justices might well have provided the impetus for Albany to increase the budget for the Commission on Judicial Conduct. But is that where the Commission should be training its sights?

ONE THAT GOT AWAY By Mark

Posted on June 11, 2008
ONE THAT GOT AWAY By Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 06-11-08Bronx County Supreme Court Justice Joseph Fisch is going to have to accept the fact that a previously convicted felon, identified in this case as Allen A, got away with one when he was classified as a “youthful offender” by Justice Robert Straus in a sentencing proceeding in 2002...

Summary Salary Judgment

Posted on June 11, 2008
By Jason Boogjasonboog@judicialstudies.comPosted 06-11-08 In one of the three salary suits by New York judges that are pending against the State, round one goes to the plaintiffs. And now?

LexPress: Of Medication and Reverse Batson Challenges

Posted on June 11, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 06-11-08 A ruling by a Manhattan judge exposes the difficulties of bringing the mentally ill to court. In other news, the Second Circuit upholds a ruling preventing attorneys for black defendants from exploiting peremptory challenges to strike white jurors...

Policing the Judge Police

Posted on June 10, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted 06-11-08 The Commission on Judicial Conduct recently doubled its resources. Now, are they serving and protecting the court system or engaging in 'judge police' brutality?

LexPress: Indignant About Indigent Defense

Posted on June 10, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 06-10-08 The state Legislature continues to drag its heels over revamping New York's indigent defense system. In other news, the plan to rebuild Nassau County's Family Court hits a snag.

LexPress: Holdman Hangs em High

Posted on June 09, 2008
By  Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 06-09-08 The Appellate Division again reduces a sentence imposed by Acting Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Robert K. Holdman. In other news, juveniles arrested over the weekend no longer have to wait till Monday to be processed by the court system.

LexPress: Restaino Removed

Posted on June 06, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 06-06-08 The Court of Appeals upholds the Commission on Judicial Conduct's recommendation to remove Niagara City Court Judge Robert Restaino from the bench.

LexPress: Copied Bags and Hostile Mags

Posted on June 05, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 06-05-08 One Southern District Judge dismisses Louis Vuitton's copyright allegation against a competing hand bag, while a Magistrate from the same court recommends allowing a legal malpractice suit by a disgruntled former employee of The Source magazine to go forward.

Crisis? What Crisis?

Posted on June 04, 2008
By Jason Boogjasonboog@judicialstudies.comPosted 04-03-08The Legislature's nearly decade-long inaction on a judicial pay raise has prompted fears that jurists will engage in mass recusals involving any cases connected with legislator-lawyers. A report from the field...

SEX AND THE CITY SCHOOLS By Mark

Posted on June 04, 2008
SEX AND THE CITY SCHOOLS By Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 06-04-08New York County Justice Marilyn Shafer is considerably more tolerant of teachers who engage in sexually explicit banter with their students than four judges on the Appellate Division, who recently reviewed – and reversed – her decision in a disciplinary proceeding...

LexPress: Cuomo's Grasso Problem

Posted on June 04, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 06-04-08 Richard Grasso's excessive compensation case is argued before the Court of Appeals. In other news, a Christian organization, with support from five State lawmakers, files suit trying to stop Governor Patterson from enabling State agencies to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.

Rensselaer Family Court Judge Censured

Posted on June 03, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comand Leah Nelsonlnelson@judicialstudies.com Posted: 06-03-08The Commission on Judicial Conduct censured an Upstate Family Court Judge and the Georgia gun retailer facing trial for straw purchases that led to crimes in New York City abruptly dismantles his defense, setting the stage for an appeal...

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