Federal Judiciary

LexPress: Crisis and Cops

Posted on June 02, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 06-02-08The New York Times calls out the Governor and the State Assembly for not addressing a judiciary in "crisis." In other news, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Marylin Diamond orders the NYPD to turn over a database detailing its stop-and-frisk procedures...

Murphy's Law

Posted on May 30, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 05-30-08A part time Binghamton City Court Judge resigns rather than fight the Commission on Judicial Conduct over charges he allowed attorneys in his law firm to appear in the court. In other news, The New York Law Journal examines the "critical issue" in one of three suits trying to force a judicial pay raise.

LexPress: Dell Dinged

Posted on May 29, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 05-28-08 An Albany judge rules against computer retailer Dell's practice of false advertising. In other news, the Court of Appeals starts its summer docket.

LexPress: Ready, Willing, and Random

Posted on May 29, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 05-29-08A Nassau County Court Judge validates the practice of asking prospective Grand Jurors if they are "willing to serve," a phrase one attorney said endangered the necessary randomness of the proceedings...

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A Brooklyn Bridge?

Posted on May 28, 2008
By Leah Nelsonlnelson@judicialstudies.com Posted 05-28-08The City’s most populous borough was ahead of the curve in addressing the high default rate among residential foreclosures. Alas, its effort to date has largely been in vain. 

Subprimal Therapy

Posted on May 28, 2008
By Leah Nelsonlnelson@judicialstudies.com Posted 05-28-08 The governor has charged New York's courts with fixing the foreclosure crisis. Never mind the lack of money, time, transparency, or judicial authority to get the job done.

NO DOCTOR NEEDEDBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com

Posted on May 28, 2008
NO DOCTOR NEEDEDBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 05-28-08Kings County Justice Bruce Balter summarily kicked a lawsuit out of court simply because the plaintiffs didn’t bother to obtain a medical opinion asserting that a nursing home should have taken steps to assure that a 91-year-old patient wouldn’t keep clambering out of bed on her own...

LexPress: Payraise Suit Slowed

Posted on May 27, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 05-27-08 Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Edward Lehner denies Bernard Nussbaum's plea for an expedited trial date in Chief Judge Judith Kaye's payraise suit. In other news, an Eastern District Judge rules that judicial candidates' petition signatures for primary campaigns must all come from their respective political parties.

LexPress: Weinstein's "Media Show"

Posted on May 23, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 05-23-08 Eastern District Judge Jack Weinstein says Mayor Bloomberg can't testify in the City's upcoming trial against a Georgia gun dealer. In other news, Newsday adds fuel to the unfolding public pension benefits scandal.

LexPress: Georgia Leech

Posted on May 22, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 05-22-08Eastern District Judge Jack Weinstein allows New York City's suit against a Georgia gun retailer to go forward. In other news, angry critics of the Oneida Indian land trust deal vow to take the matter back to court, and a Justice conceives of an unborn parole officer.

More Sun, Fewer Secrets

Posted on May 21, 2008
By Jason Boogjasonboog@judicialstudies.comPosted 05-20-08The U.S. Congress is debating a law to sharply cut federal judges' latitude to seal settlements. The New York Legislature has been wrestiing with a similar proposal for years. Guess why it's gone nowhere?

BACKHANDED COMPLIMENTBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com

Posted on May 21, 2008
BACKHANDED COMPLIMENTBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 05-21-08New York County Supreme Court Justice Jane S. Solomon’s order settling a dispute over the sale of a townhouse was perfectly sensible “from a dispute resolution viewpoint” because “the final result seems to resolve the matter in a manner advantageous to both parties,” the Appellate Division said...

LexPress: Policing its Own

Posted on May 21, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 05-21-08 The NYPD brings administrative charges against seven officers involved in the shooting death of Sean Bell. In other news, a Queens judge makes interesting recommendations concerning procedures in cases in which defendants allege a coerced confession.

LexPress: Judge Not (Anymore)

Posted on May 20, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comand Leah Nelsonlnelson@judicialstudies.com Posted: 05-20-08 Southport's Town Justice turns in his robes after an investigation by the Commission on Judicial Conduct. In other CJC news, an infusion of new funds helps the Commission cuts its backlog...

LexPress: Ramos Vamoosed!

Posted on May 19, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 05-19-08 The Appellate Division removes Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Charles Ramos from presiding of future litigation concerning the 1998 nationwide tobacco settlement. In other news, The New York Times profiles a specialty felony sex offender court in Westchester.

LexPress: I'm no Contractor, Mr. Cuomo

Posted on May 16, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 05-16-08 Attorneys in the sights of Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for receiving public pension benefits strike back with a lawsuit. In other news, a judge rules the Red Cross can license the logo it shares with Johnson & Johnson for commercial use.

LexPress: Taking Money and Babies

Posted on May 15, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 05-15-08 A Manhattan judge allows a declaratory judgment claim against the PLO for its role in the 1996 death of an American rabbinical student to proceed to trial. In other news, facing criticism from another battered baby case, the City passes a new policy letting it claim newborns from parents with open child neglect cases.

Recuse or Lose

Posted on May 14, 2008
By Scott H. GreenfieldPosted 05-14-08 Various governmental leaders have been telling the judges in the State of New York who have gone a decade without a raise that they should uphold the dignity of their offices. That's rich.

SEE NO ERRORBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com

Posted on May 14, 2008
SEE NO ERRORBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 05-14-08 New York County Supreme Court Justice John A. K. Bradley let a prosecutor get away with an "egregious violation" of the rules of evidence, depriving Ronald Moye of a fair trial, said the majority of an Appellate Division panel, in a divided opinion that re-exposed a split in perspectives among appellate judges on police and prosecution tactics...

LexPress: Hardcore Thugs and Human Beings

Posted on May 14, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 05-14-08Rapper Remy Ma is sentenced to eight years in prison. In other news, The Albany Times Union takes a shot at Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's "zealous" investigation of attorneys public retirement benefits for which they were not eligible.

LexPress: Constrained to Consider

Posted on May 13, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 05-13-08 The Commission on Judicial Conduct warns judges not to recuse themselves as a tactic in the ongoing pay raise litigation, calling the maneuver an ethics breach. In other news, former Justice Leslie Crocker Snyder prepares another bid for Manhattan District Attorney.

LexPress: "Testilying" and the NYPD

Posted on May 12, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 05-12-08The New York Times examines the NYPD's disturbing tendency to lie when defending itself against suppression motions. In other news, the judge overseeing the grand jury investigating the deaths of Seymour and Arlene Tankleff recuses himself.

LexPress: Torture Memo Fight, Con.

Posted on May 09, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 05-09-08 A Southern District Judge might make public a CIA memo that allegedly specifies the use of waterboarding as an interrogation technique. In other news, the office of State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announces its latest targets: politically connected lawyers illegally receiving public pension funds.

LexPress: Walking While Black

Posted on May 08, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 05-08-08 The New York Civil Liberties Union files another suit attacking the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policies. In other news, an Upstate judge allows a lawsuit to continue against the General Electric Company for its contamination of homes with an industrial solvent decades ago.

The Recuse Fuse

Posted on May 07, 2008
By Jason Boogjasonboog@judicialstudies.comPosted 05-07-08 With judges furiously suing lawmakers, members of the bench are finding more and more reasons to excuse themselves from presiding over certain firms' cases. This could get explosive.

JUDGES V. PLAINTIFFSBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com

Posted on May 07, 2008
JUDGES V. PLAINTIFFSBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 05-07-08The Appellate Division rescued plaintiffs in a pair of cases from trial court rulings that, in the appellate panels’ view, unfairly hamstrung the personal injury lawsuits.In one of the cases, an appellate panel tossed out a verdict for the city in a suit brought by an injured employee because Kings County Justice Joseph Levine allowed the city to ambush the plaintiff with a late-disclosed witness...

LexPress: Judge Sues News

Posted on May 07, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 05-07-08 Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Larry D. Martin files a $10 million defamation suit against The Daily News. In other news, Uma Thurman's stalker is convicted.

LexPress: Public Calamity, Punitive Pirro

Posted on May 06, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.com Posted: 05-06-08 New York City begins enforcing its new health code requiring certain restaurants to prominently display calorie counts on menus. In other news, here comes Court Pestilence. 

LexPress: Silver Tongue Lashing

Posted on May 05, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.com Posted: 05-05-08 Sheldon Silver takes on the pay raise recusal movement. A Brooklyn Surrogate Judge receives a death threat. And the Southern District tosses the lawsuit of the MTA's disgruntled former security director.

LexPress: Suit Storm Swells

Posted on May 02, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.com   Posted: 05-02-08 While Judith Kaye sends an email to judges warning against any behavior that could hurt their cause for a raise, an Erie County Supreme Court Justice tries to remove the law firm of Assembly Speaker (and pay raise impeder) Sheldon Silver from representing the County in a major suit against 77 drug companies.

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