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30 Dec 2014, 9:05 pm
Lists of lists, if not indeed lists of lists of lists: Lenore Skenazy picks worst school safety overreaction cases of the year [Reason] and worst nanny state cases [Huffington Post] Radley Balko, “Horrifying civil liberties predictions for 2015″, and you won’t need to read far to get the joke [Washington Post] Feds probe NY Speaker Sheldon Silver over pay from law firm — not his big personal injury firm, but an obscure firm that handles tax certiorari… [read post]
2 Dec 2014, 9:05 pm
Kittle/Wisconsin Reporter, earlier] Tweet Tags: attorneys general, extraterritoriality, Florida, New York state, qui tam, Sheldon Silver, taxes, whistleblowers, WisconsinPolitics roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
12 Aug 2014, 9:05 pm
” [Michael Greve, Law and Liberty, on Halbig] American Tort Reform Foundation nominations of “judicial hellholes” this year include Louisiana, South Florida and NYC [Abnormal Use] Antitrust’s awful academics [Tom Bowden, Ayn Rand Institute] New York Assembly Speaker Silver “earned up to $750,000 in 2013 working a few hours per week” at prominent tort firm [NY Daily News] Europe: Gardeners with sit-on lawnmowers face buying motor insurance… [read post]
17 Jun 2014, 8:38 am
<> New York Assembly Overwhelmingly Passes Fracking Moratorium - NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Environmental Conservation Committee Chair Robert Sweeney announced the Assembly passed legislation (89-34 vote) establishing a statewide, three year moratorium to allow for further study of hydraulic fracturing, a horizontal drilling process used to extract natural gas and oil, and its potential to contaminate drinking water supplies and harm the environment. … [read post]
26 May 2014, 6:35 am
NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver hangs blame for a retrospectively unpopular position on the *other* Sheldon Silver. [read post]
31 Mar 2014, 11:22 am
A bill from Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver would make up for much of what was lost in budget negotiations, bringing speed cams to Long Island and expanding NYC’s automated speed enforcement program by 120 cameras. [read post]
23 Jan 2014, 8:05 pm
” [Douglas Nejaime, "Cause Lawyers Inside the State," SSRN via Legal Ethics Forum] Gun rights: public opinion has changed over the decades in a big way [Bryan Caplan, Steven Greenhut] “Mostyn Law Firm donates $1 million to help Wendy Davis in Texas governor’s race” [Washington Examiner, New Republic] Plaintiff’s bar supporting GOP primary challenges to Texas Supreme Court incumbents Phil Johnson, Jeff Brown, and Chief Justice Nathan Hecht [TLR] Nassau’s… [read post]
20 Oct 2013, 12:19 pm
“I think the city has to recognize (Chinese New Year),” said [Assembly Speaker Sheldon] Silver, a Democrat whose district includes Chinatown in lower Manhattan. [read post]
23 May 2013, 8:12 am
According to reports, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo asked Assemblyman Vito Lopez to resign from his position as a lawmaker after at least two reports of sexual harassment and retaliation came to light. [read post]
27 Mar 2013, 10:00 am
Cuomo, Senate Majority Coalition Co Leaders Dean Skelos and Jeff Klein, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver outlined the agreement on the 2013 -14 Budget. [read post]
25 Mar 2013, 8:58 am
Now, New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says, [T]he state will suspend the April 15 effective date of New York’s law banning the sale of magazines with more than seven bullets to give lawmakers time to change the statute. [read post]
15 Feb 2013, 7:57 am
On a local level, the New York Civil Liberties Union is urging Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, and State Senate leaders Jeffrey Klein and Dean Skelos to adopt and implement the Women’s Equality Agenda, groundbreaking proposed legislation that would break down barriers to New York women’s full and equal participation in society. [read post]
11 Oct 2012, 5:54 am
Which is why it pains me to say this: Judge Sheldon: You mad, bro? [read post]
4 Sep 2012, 11:30 am
Sheldon Silver, king of the hill for 15 years, is a talented and progressive legislator, except where he has a personal or professional interest in the matter, e.g. tort reform. [read post]
29 Aug 2012, 1:29 pm
Sheldon Silver, an assembly speaker wrote. [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 7:08 am
Instead, Allred, the woman’s attorney, reportedly contacted counsel of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on behalf of the woman and set forth the allegations of sexual harassment against Lopez. [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 8:24 am
That's the underlying question posed by Edward Mangano, the Nassau County (Long Island) Executive suing Sheldon Silver, the longtime Speaker of the NY State Assembly. [read post]
2 Aug 2012, 11:00 am
So has the Harry Truman Democratic Club, the home club of New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and the Fred Samuels Democratic Club which is Manhattan Democratic Leader Keith Wright's club. [read post]
27 Jul 2012, 5:33 am
A “citizen action” challenging the State’s settlement of earlier litigation involving payment of damages by the State dismissed Santora v Silver, 20 Misc.3d 836, Modified and Affirmed, 61 A.D.3d 621, Motion to appeal denied, 13 N.Y.3d 704 This “citizen taxpayer action” pursuant to State Finance Law Section 123 et seq., sought money damages from Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and his former chief legal counsel, James Michael Boxley for the… [read post]
19 Jul 2012, 4:53 pm
The Albany bill, introduced by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver from Manhattan would have raised New York’s minimum wage to $8.50 an hour. [read post]
