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"Under CPLR 7511 (b) an arbitration award must be vacated if, as relevant here, a party's rights were impaired by an arbitrator who 'exceeded [their] power' " (Matter of Kowaleski [New York State Dept. of Correctional Servs.], 16 NY3d 85, 90 [2010], quoting CPLR 7511 [b] [1] [iii]). [read post]

New York Public Personnel Law - https://publicpersonnellaw.blogspot.com/

NYS Supreme Court's vacating an arbitration award on the ground that the arbitrator disregarded applicable substantive law held error

10 May 2024, 6:00 am by Public Employment Law Press

"Under CPLR 7511 (b) an arbitration award must be vacated if, as relevant here, a party's rights were impaired by an arbitrator who 'exceeded [their] power' " (Matter of Kowaleski [New York State Dept. of Correctional Servs.], 16 NY3d 85, 90 [2010], quoting CPLR 7511 [b] [1] [iii]). [read post]

New York Public Personnel Law - https://publicpersonnellaw.blogspot.com/

Plaintiffs in this action contend State and City policies deny Black and Latinx students their state constitutional right to a "sound basic education"

8 May 2024, 6:00 am by Public Employment Law Press

Farra, Alyssa M. [read post]

New York Public Personnel Law - https://publicpersonnellaw.blogspot.com/

Plaintiffs in this action contend State and City policies deny Black and Latinx students their state constitutional right to a "sound basic education"

8 May 2024, 6:00 am by Public Employment Law Press

Farra, Alyssa M. [read post]

New York Public Personnel Law - https://publicpersonnellaw.blogspot.com/

Liskow Secures Success at the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal in Legacy Case Involving Excess Remediation Claims Under Act 312

3 May 2024, 12:33 pm by Michael C. Schimpf, Kelly Brechtel Becker and Kathryn Gonski

Energen Resources Corp., 2023-0564 (La. [read post]

The Energy Law Blog - http://www.theenergylawblog.com/

Linke v. Freed: Weighing In On Public Official’s Social Media Sites

22 Apr 2024, 5:00 am by Bernard Bell

The Case and the Decision After his appointment as City Manager for Port Huron, Michigan, James Freed expanded the use of his “public” Facebook page to post about not only personal matters but also about matters related to his public office. [read post]

Notice & Comment - https://www.yalejreg.com/nc/

Cleary Gottlieb Discusses Refusal of Delaware Bankruptcy Judge to Order Arbitration

9 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm by renholding

Background The debtors—Yellow Corporation (“Yellow Corp. [read post]

The CLS Blue Sky Blog - https://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/

Access to a Study Protocol & Underlying Data Reveals a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Test

8 Apr 2024, 10:08 am by admin

As a practical matter, the burden shifts to the party that wishes to challenge the relied upon facts and data to learn more about the cited studies to show that the facts and data are not sufficient under Rule 702(b), and that the testimony is not the product of reliable methods under Rule 702(c). [read post]

Tortini - http://schachtmanlaw.com/blog/

The Potential Role of the Conscience Objection in a SCOTUS Decision Rejecting Plaintiffs' Standing in the Mifepristone Case

27 Mar 2024, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf

The reason I say Justice Thomas might be in play is that he might regard the case as an opportunity to strike a final death blow to the broadest interpretation of the tester-plaintiff case of Havens Realty Corp. v. [read post]

Dorf on Law - http://www.dorfonlaw.org/

Blog Post: 30 Hours of SB4 Whiplash: Prof. Steve Vladeck

20 Mar 2024, 7:14 am by Daniel M. Kowalski

(I’m going to have a lot more to say about Justice Barrett’s procedural argument in tomorrow’s bonus issue.) [read post]

Legal Insights Blog - https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/insights/legal/

U.S. Supreme Court, Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty CO., LLC, Docket No. 22-500

12 Mar 2024, 2:40 pm

Corp. v. [read post]

Frederic Borel - http://fredericborel.blogspot.ch/

Purging Compurgation

12 Mar 2024, 12:46 pm by admin

The attempt to deprecate the intentions or motives of a party were not necessarily enhanced when the expert witness compurgator had some semblance of subject-matter expertise. [read post]

Tortini - http://schachtmanlaw.com/blog/

Commissioner Dissents from SEC Rule on Climate-Related Disclosures

6 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm by renholding

As the release notes, “[m]any commenters provided aggregate cost estimates that did not include certain elements required by the final rules, or included other elements that are not required in the final rules [and it was] difficult to use these cost estimates to quantify the direct costs of the final rules. [read post]

The CLS Blue Sky Blog - https://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/

California Court of Appeal, Gary Garner v. BNSF Railway Company, Docket No. D082229

28 Feb 2024, 2:00 pm

(b), 802.) [read post]

Frederic Borel - http://fredericborel.blogspot.ch/

The FTC Should Not Enact a Deceptive or Unfair Marketing Earnings-Claims Rule

22 Feb 2024, 12:47 pm by Alden Abbott

§45(m)(1)(B)) (see here) authorizes the FTC to seek civil penalties against a company that acted unfairly or deceptively. [read post]

Truth on the Market - http://truthonthemarket.com/

Does a promise of "confidentiality" authorize a New York state or municipal entity to refuse to disclose a record requested pursuant to New York State's Freedom of Information Law?

1 Feb 2024, 6:00 am by Public Employment Law Press

The court explained that in Matter of M. [read post]

New York Public Personnel Law - https://publicpersonnellaw.blogspot.com/