Federal Judiciary

LexPress: Term Limit Test

Posted on October 23, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 10-23-08 A Manhattan judge allows the City Council to continue with its term limits vote, but victory for Mayor Bloomberg is by no means a sure thing.

Surrogate-gate?

Posted on October 22, 2008
By Jason Boogjasonboog@judicialstudies.comPosted 10-22-2008 Presumptive Manhattan Surrogate Judge Nora Anderson is under investigation for her campaign finance practices. But even if she followed the rules, her donor list is disturbing.

PULLING A PUNCHBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com

Posted on October 22, 2008
PULLING A PUNCHBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 10-22-08New York County Supreme Court Justice Bruce Balter was castigated by the New York Times last November for aiming a “pointless slap” at the Transport Workers Union in a ruling handed down in response to the three-day illegal transit strike that tied the city in knots in December 2005...

Law Firm Contributors To Nora Anderson's Campaign

Posted on October 22, 2008
 As part of the October 21, 2008 article, Surrogate-gate, here is a list of the 17 law firms with Surrogate court business that donated to Anderson’s campaign this year:        FIRM                                               AMOUNT ($)GREENFIELD STEIN & SENIOR                           6800FINKELSTEIN & VIRGA                                     5000GOLDFARB ABRANDT SALZMAN & KUTZIN          2500PETER SCHRAM PC                                          2500WOLF HALDENSTEIN ADLER FREEMAN & HERZ   2500LAURINO & LAURINO                                       2000NOVICK & ASSOCIATES                                     2000TEITLER & TEITLER                                         1000MORRIS & MCVEIGH                                         1000HOLLADAY LIA & MUKAMAL                              1000SONNENSCHEIN NATH & ROSENTHAL                 1000LISSNER & LISSNER                                            750GARDNER WEISS & ROSENBLUM                          500PELL & LEVINESS                                               500RUSKIN MOSCOU FALTISCHEK                             500AGINS SIEGEL & REINER                                     250CAPELL VISHNICK                                              150

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Individual Attorney Contributors To Nora Anderson's Campaign

Posted on October 22, 2008
  As part of the October 21, 2008 article, Surrogate-gate, here is the list of the 13 Surrogate Court attorneys who have contributed to Anderson’s campaign this year:Name                  Contributed($)   Earned Fees($)GIBBS, CHARLES F     2000              198,655DICICCO, BRUCE M      250                61,350SALL, BRANDON R       500                23,162SHEPARD, WILLIAM T   250               20,808BORDOFF, NINETTE      500               16,000KIRSTEIN, ALLAN E       500               13,172WEISBERG, JOAN L       150               10,425DAVIDSON, MIRIAM       250                 9,865SCHWAB, EILEEN C       500                 4,975SOLOMON, JEROME S    250                 4,568ROKACZ, JOSEPH         250                  3,250BARKHORN, KARIN       500                  2,500LITWER, SUSAN            100                  1,000 

LexPress: Cohabitation Coordination

Posted on October 22, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 10-22-08 A divided Court of Appeals defines the meaning of cohabitation as it applies to the State's divorce law. In other news, a Asian restaurant chain is ordered to pay employees $4.6 million for breaking minimum wage and overtime laws.

Surrogate-gate?

Posted on October 22, 2008
By Jason Boogjasonboog@judicialstudies.comPosted 10-22-2008 Presumptive Manhattan Surrogate Judge Nora Anderson is under investigation for her campaign finance practices. But even if she followed the rules, her donor list is disturbing.

LexPress: Ex Parte Extremus

Posted on October 21, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 10-21-08 A Northern Disrtict Bankruptcy Judge considers sanctions against an attorney who accused him of impropriety. In other news, a controversial Brooklyn murder trial enters the death phase.

LexPress: Missing Judge

Posted on October 20, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 10-20-08Reduced to only two judges, the Staten Island Criminal Court is "bursting at the seams." In other news, Southern District Judge Lewis Kaplan rules that the City may prevent public school teachers from wearing political buttons at work.

LexPress: TYCO TKO

Posted on October 17, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 10-16-08 Former TYCO International CEO Dennis Kozlowski looses his bid for a new trial.

LexPress: Seeking Shelter and Transparency

Posted on October 16, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 10-16-08The leaner, meaner KPMG tax fraud case gets under way. Meanwhile, an Upstate newspaper argues for more transparency in the selection of Judith Kaye's replacement.

LexPosition: Crisis? What Crisis?

Posted on October 15, 2008
By Scott H. GreenfieldSHGLaw@AOL.comPosted 10-15-2008A small case of judicial misjudgment draws histrionics from a tabloid and a misguided "protocol" from the court administration. 

ASLEEP AT THE SWITCHBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com

Posted on October 15, 2008
ASLEEP AT THE SWITCHBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 10-15-08The board of directors of Comverse Technology Inc. was apparently asleep at the switch while company executives were backdating stock options for their own pecuniary benefit, yet New York County Supreme Court Justice Richard B...

LexPress: Race Based Statistics

Posted on October 15, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 10-15-08 Eastern District Judge Jack Weinstein slams the City for trying to reduce the damages to a Staten Island ferry disaster victim based on racial statistics about life expectancy.    

LexPress: Emergency Calls Only

Posted on October 14, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 10-14-08 Court officials design a plan to field emergency civil applications for judicial intervention in the banking crisis, stemming from a questionable decision in the Wachovia case made from the Connecticut home of Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Charles Ramos.

LexPress: Wal-Mart Free Zone

Posted on October 10, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 10-10-08 A Suffolk County Judge rejects a bid to build a Wal-Mart superstore in Riverhead. And the Port Authority sues the feds.

LexPress: Al Sharpton's Lament

Posted on October 09, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 10-09-08 A Manhattan Criminal Court Judge finds Al Sharpton and seven others guilty of disorderly conduct stemming from their protests over the acquittal of police officers in the shooting death of Sean Bell...

The Longest Motion

Posted on October 08, 2008
By Jason Boogjasonboog@judicialstudies.comPosted 10-8-2008A common Family Court motion drags on for nearly sixteen months without judicial review. 

GUILT BY ASSOCIATION By Mark

Posted on October 08, 2008
GUILT BY ASSOCIATION By Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 10-08-08New York County Family Court Judge Jody Adams leapt to the conclusion that a mother abused and neglected her children -- who were subsequently taken away from her -- because her boyfriend violently shook his own child, the Appellate Division said...

LexPress: Facts Trump Trump

Posted on October 08, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 10-08-08A Manhattan judge allows a law firm being sued by Donald Trump (for overcharging him) to represent a third party also being sued by Trump.

LexPress: Esoteric Testimony

Posted on October 07, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 10-07-08 The Second Circuit reverses the murder convictions of two MS-13 gang members, saying a state trooper's expert testimony was hearsay.

LexPress: One Bank, Two Bidders

Posted on October 06, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 10-06-08The debate over who will buy Wachovia constrains New York courts.

LexPress: Terror Testimony Tossed

Posted on October 03, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 10-03-08The Second Circuit tosses two notable terror convictions due to an Eastern District judge's allowance of prejudicial testimony.  

LexPress: Identity Issues

Posted on October 02, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 10-02-08Eastern District Judge Joseph Bianco lets the Shinnecock Indians sue the federal government over its delinquent application for tribal recognition. 

The Nuclear Option

Posted on October 01, 2008
By Jason Boogjasonboog@judicialstudies.comPosted 10-1-2008Members of the judiciary have been known to reach into their statutory bag of tricks during litigation to impose the ultimate sanction. And, poof! There goes the case. Is that right?

DANGEROUS LIAISONS By Mark

Posted on October 01, 2008
DANGEROUS LIAISONS By Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 10-01-08New York County Justice Karla Moskowitz erred in letting a law firm’s malpractice insurers off the hook on grounds that the law firm failed to notify them as soon as it had an inkling that securities fraud committed by one of its clients might one day put the firm in hot water...

LexPress: Footprints and Popcorn

Posted on October 01, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 10-01-08The Appellate Division refuses to dismiss an eminent domain case challenging the Atlantic Yards development project. In other news, a judge dismisses a moviegoer's suit against a theater chain for a piece of popcorn that busted his tooth.

LexPress: Judge Peck, Exposed

Posted on September 30, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 09-30-08The Wall Street Journal profiles James Peck, the judge in the Lehman bankruptcy.

CPLR 3126 Reversals from 2003 to 2005

Posted on September 30, 2008
By Jason Boogjasonboog@judicialstudies.comPosted 10-1-2008  As reported in this week's feature, CPLR 3126 grant judges a number of powers to enforce discovery demands. Most dramatically, it allows jurists to dismiss a case if any party “refuses to obey an order for disclosure or willfully fails to disclose information which the court finds ought to have been disclosed...

LexPress: Double Vote for Bronx Democrats

Posted on September 29, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 09-29-08The Bronx Democratic Party meeting produces two different votes for chairman, with two very different results. Which will hold up?

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