Federal Judiciary

LexPress: Lawyers, Guns, and Money

Posted on May 01, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.com   Posted: 05-01-08New York City's lawsuit against the gun industry is dismissed. In other news, another judge recuses himself over accusations of judicial pay raise interference. 

Justice Plays Detective

Posted on April 30, 2008
By Leah Nelsonlnelson@judicialstudies.com Posted 04-30-08When Governor David Paterson chose Justice Joseph Fisch to serve as the State's Inspector General, he was reaching back across more than a quarter century of personal history. 

LOOSE LIPSBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com

Posted on April 30, 2008
LOOSE LIPSBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 04-30-08New York County Justice Edward J. McLaughlin, who has regularly gotten into trouble with the Appellate Division for hectoring and badgering jurors, was reversed again, this time for overbearing behavior towards a criminal defendant and his supporting witnesses...

LexPress: Stoking Fears, Calming Fears

Posted on April 30, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.com  04-30-08Chief Judge Judith Kaye reassures the Governor that judges won't grind their dockets to a halt amid the pay raise lawsuit. In other news, the Appellate Division finds the Port Authority liable for damages stemming from the 1993 World Trade Center terrorist bombing...

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LexPress: Judges Gone Wild

Posted on April 29, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.com Posted: 04-29-08 In an apparent gesture of unity to Chief Judge Judith Kaye's ongoing judicial pay-raise lawsuit, more judges recuse themselves in cases involving legislator-attorneys. In other news, Queens Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman shoots back at the media for blitzing his home over the weekend.

LexPress: Pay Suit Warning

Posted on April 28, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.com Posted: 04-28-08 Governor Patterson has some words of caution for participants in the lawsuit filed by state judges to encourage a pay raise. And various parties weigh in on the Sean Bell verdict.

LexPress: Day of Reckoning

Posted on April 25, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 04-25-08The city waits with bated breath for a verdict in the Sean Bell case. In other news, in a 3-2 decision the Appellate Division refuses to dismiss charges against former New York Stock Exchange chair Kenneth Langone.

LexPress: Judges in Flux, but Club Kalua Stays

Posted on April 24, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 04-24-08Bound for Albany as the new counsel to Governor David Patterson, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice James Yates decides to stay on the bench. In other news, after losing its liquor license a resilient strip club hardly misses a beat...

Justice in the Eye of the Storm

Posted on April 23, 2008
By Jason Boogjasonboog@judicialstudies.comPosted 04-23-08Conflict claims are swirling all around the judicial salary litigation. Judicial Reports takes a closer look at the Justice involved in two of these suits, Edward H...

HASTY BRONX JUSTICEBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com

Posted on April 23, 2008
HASTY BRONX JUSTICEBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 04-23-08In two cases last week, the Appellate Division reinstated complaints that were summarily dismissed by Bronx County Justice Betty Owen Stinson, a judge with an apparent propensity for too hastily sending worthy plaintiffs packing...

LexPress: Brothers in Arms

Posted on April 23, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 04-23-08Case closed for another Garson brother. In other news, the Second Circuit dismisses a class action suit against former EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman over allegedly untrue statements she made about New York's air quality after 9/11.

LexPress: Bacterium Tremens

Posted on April 22, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 04-22-08After four years, a University of Buffalo art professor is acquitted of mail fraud charges (and the inference of terrorism) for using illegally obtained bacteria in an art installation...

LexPress: Willing to Serve

Posted on April 21, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 04-21-08A lawsuit takes aim at Nassau County's allegedly biased method of selecting grand juries. In other news, two Rochester-area brothers sue the Monroe County DA's office over a botched insurance fraud investigation that ruined their auto repair shop.

LexPress: The Masquerade

Posted on April 18, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 04-18-08The City of Newburgh's Police Chief squares off against a City Court judge over an alleged incident of anti-law-enforcement bias. In other news, the tabloids break down the indictment of two City Council staffers on embezzlement charges.

LexPress: Counting Calories

Posted on April 17, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 04-17-08 A judge OKs a city health code enforcing the display of caloric information on restaurant menus. In other news, J.K. Rowling and her nemesis fight to the bitter end.

Quest to Suppress

Posted on April 16, 2008
By Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 04-16-08 The Appellate Division split over police tactics in an otherwise legal traffic stop. The majority ruled that the officer's inventory of vehicle contents became the pretext for an illegal search.

LexPress: Avenues of Escape

Posted on April 16, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 04-16-08The NYPD agrees to alter its crowd control procedures for political demonstrations. In other news, the Court of Appeals takes a field trip to the Bronx.

LexPress: Shadowy Rememberances

Posted on April 15, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 04-15-08 Vito Lopez prepares to reenact some legendary Brooklyn patronage games. In other news, The New York Times reveals the troubling pattern of ineffective attorneys filing substandard immigration cases before the Second Circuit.

LexPress: Judge Slips, Falls, Sues!

Posted on April 14, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 04-14-08 A Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice files a $1 million slip-and-fall case after fracturing his knee in his own courthouse. In other news, Governor Patterson makes two appointments to the Appellate Division, First Department.

Breaking the Bank

Posted on April 11, 2008
By Jason Boogjasonboog@judicialstudies.comPosted 04-11-08 Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye has taken grief from some of her colleagues for months, even years, for demurring on litigation over the appalling lack of a pay raise for the judiciary...

LexPress: Rather, Redstone, and Righteous Railing

Posted on April 11, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 04-11-08After multiple dismissals by Judge Ira Gammerman, has the heart really been cut from the Dan Rather lawsuit? And what happens when a judge "patriotically" dismisses a speeding ticket for the wife of a soldier in Iraq?

Kaye To Announce Pay Suit

Posted on April 10, 2008
By Jason Boogjasonboog@judicialstudies.comPosted 04-10-08Following 10 years without a raise, Chief Judge Judith Kaye is poised to sue on behalf of hundreds of frustrated judges this afternoon. While the press release didn't specify who would be named in the suit, the formal announcement is set for 1 pm today.

LexPress: Shotgun Justice

Posted on April 10, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 04-10-08 Judges in a security-lapsed Long Island courthouse plead with the Town Board for a new facility. In other news, a Southern District Judge allows heroin charges to continue against an Afghan warlord who was duped into coming to America by a private security firm that thought he knew the whereabouts of Osama Bin Ladin...

HOLDMAN CENTRAL RAILROAD By Mark

Posted on April 09, 2008
HOLDMAN CENTRAL RAILROAD By Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 04-09-08Kings County Justice Robert Holdman kept the Appellate Division busy over the past year reversing convictions entered after plea and sentencing hearings that he oversaw in 2006...

Judicial Abacus

Posted on April 09, 2008
By Dirk Olindirkolin@judicialstudies.comPosted 04-09-08The room was packed with the brightest of legal luminaries — from Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen Breyer to the Chief Justice of Ghana. Academic and bar heavyweights were all around. A forum of self-congratulatory blather? Hardly...

Lexpress: The Eggman's Revenge

Posted on April 09, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 04-09-08 A Long Island Rail Road passenger with a history of aggressively defending his right to privacy gets his day in court — and somehow wins. In other news, Donald Trump, who has "a Ph...

LexPress: Bronx Cheer

Posted on April 08, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 04-08-08 The new Bronx Hall of Justice has long lines, radio dead spaces, and a lot of hard feelings. In other news, the self-described "adopted son" of John Gotti fingers two allegedly corrupt judges in Queens, one of whom is still on the bench.

LexPress: The "Petty Tyrant"

Posted on April 07, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 04-07-08 A Niagara judge removed from office for jailing 46 defendants over a ringing cell phone gets his day in court. In other news, a new lawsuit alleges the city cherry-picked scholars to vet a study in favor of its controversial calorie display regulation.

Lexpress: Light Cigs, No Dice

Posted on April 04, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 04-04-08 The Second Circuit dismisses a class action suit filed by millions of smokers who claimed they were duped by the alleged health benefits of light cigarettes. But Starbucks — and its tip-hungry shift supervisors — might not be so lucky.

LexPress: Borat's Newsworthy Nature

Posted on April 03, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 04-03-08 A Southern District Judge dismisses a lawsuit filed by a man who says Sasha Baron Cohen illegally used footage of him in the movie "Borat." In other news, an Eastern District Judge allows a landmark racial discrimination suit against the NYPD to go forward.

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