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19 Nov 2013, 3:20 pm by Stephen Bilkis
First, the court has adhered to the "rule" established by the New York Legislature when it chose how to separately address due process issues in the case of local court prosecutions of habitual offenders by enacting legislation which has now become CPL 400.40. [read post]
4 Nov 2013, 9:46 am by Jane Chong
Over the last month, on our New Republic: Security States newsfeed, we rolled out a series designed to explain why fairly allocating the costs of software deficiencies between software makers and users is so critical to addressing the growing problem of vulnerability-ridden code—and how such a regime will require questioning some of our deep-seated beliefs about the very nature of software security. [read post]
3 Nov 2013, 8:05 pm by Ken White
” At the Technology & Marketing Law Blog Eric Goldman uses a decision from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to show how traditional journalistic methods, applied online, makes it easier to defend a defamation case. [read post]
21 Oct 2013, 9:30 pm by Marie Logan
Last May, New York’s highest court became the first in the country to adopt the mandatory pro bono requirement for new attorneys in the state. [read post]
17 Oct 2013, 12:00 am by Jennifer Granick
Also, in early September, The Guardian, New York Times, and ProPublica reported that the NSA has found ways to circumvent encryption protocols, which protect sensitive data like trade secrets, banking information and medical records as they travel over the Internet. [read post]
22 Sep 2013, 8:35 am by Susan Schneider
Program this year.Kelly DamewoodJ.D., Vermont Law School. magna cum laudeStaff Editor, Vermont Law ReviewFull-time Judicial Extern to Judge Ricardo S. [read post]
6 Sep 2013, 5:23 pm by Stephen Bilkis
Although rejecting the direct applicability of state privilege law, including New York Civil Rights Law § 50-a, the court describes a "procedure and test to govern all discovery disputes over police records in federal civil rights actions" in the Eastern District, "regardless of the label used to refer to the privilege." [read post]
4 Sep 2013, 5:12 pm
A New York Criminal Possession of a Weapon Lawyer said that, shortly after arriving at 1411 Grand Concourse, the responding officers were called to the aid of another officer at a different location. [read post]
3 Sep 2013, 1:38 am by Kevin LaCroix
: On August 19, 2013, in connection with its entry into a settlement with New York-based hedge fund adviser Phillip Falcone and his advisory firm Harbinger Capital Partners, the SEC for the first time implemented its new policy requiring defendants seeking to settle civil enforcement actions to admit wrongdoing, in contrast to the long-standing practice of allowing defendants to resolve the enforcement actions with a “neither-admit-nor-deny” settlement. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 2:39 pm by Stephen Bilkis
” The Commission found that magistrate courts as they existed before 1910 were noisy, overcrowded and lacked the semblance of any judicial procedure, thereby, making the defendant unable to hear the proceedings against him. [read post]
29 Jul 2013, 8:21 am by Charles Kotuby
In the United States at least, judicial decisions deferring competence to arbitrators seem to be on the rise—if not in number, at least in profile. [read post]
18 Jul 2013, 8:39 am by Gritsforbreakfast
At last week's Texas Forensic Science Commission Roundtable (an event co-sponsored by the Court of Criminal Appeals' Criminal Justice Integrity Unit), presenter Norman Reimer from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers offered a preliminary discussion of a project publicly announced today - a joint review between the US Justice Department, the national Innocence Project out of New York, and the NACDL of cases where potentially flawed microscopic hair analysis… [read post]
1 Jul 2013, 5:34 am by Legal Profession
The New York Commission on Judicial Conduct has imposed an admonition of a judge who wrote a letter in support of the parole of a state inmate who was serving a term for vehicular manslaughter. [read post]
27 Jun 2013, 2:56 pm by NBlack
The judge, upon realizing that the message was an improper ex parte communication, stopped reading the message, sent a reply message stating that the message was a violation of ex parte rules, notified both lawyers regarding the incident, placed a copy of the message in the court’s file, and contacted the judicial conduct commission to determine if any other steps needed to be taken. [read post]
22 Jun 2013, 7:02 am by Benjamin Wittes
Over the past two-and-a-half years, we have published over a hundred posts on the NDAAs and related legal developments, including the Southern District of New York’s important decision in Hedges v. [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 7:01 pm by Stephen Bilkis
During this time, the defendant has been a full-time participant in a residential drug program--"The Renaissance Project"--supported by the New York State Division of Substance Abuse Services. [read post]
17 Jun 2013, 6:59 pm by Stephen Bilkis
As a result of these arrests, the probation imposed by the Family Court has been revoked and respondent has been placed in the custody of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services. [read post]
12 Jun 2013, 1:24 pm
The defendant is a New York State Assemblyman and a chairman of the Executive Committee of the Kings County Democratic Party (KCDC). [read post]
22 May 2013, 6:00 am by Robert Chesney
Indeed, in the case of the citizen detainee, it eventually backed away in the face of a looming judicial reversal. [read post]