Federal Judiciary

BALLOT MANEUVERSBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com

Posted on August 27, 2008
BALLOT MANEUVERSBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 08-27-08With election season looming, the Appellate Division resuscitated two campaigns that had been knocked off track by a couple of Queens County Supreme Court judges.Justice Charles Thomas rejected the petition of a candidate who sought to be listed on the ballot for the Democratic primary, apparently without even bothering to examine any of the evidence presented by either side...

LexPress: Casinos and "Bawdy Houses"

Posted on August 27, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.com Posted: 08-27-08 A Western District Judge refuses to enforce his earlier ruling outlawing a Buffalo casino operated by the Seneca Indian Nation. In other news, a Bronx Judge rules the DA's office can't represent a landlord in an eviction proceeding.

LexPress: Ferry Finality

Posted on August 26, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.com Posted: 08-26-08 The final cases in the Staten Island ferry disaster approach closure. In other news, the bookkeeper for the escort service frequented by former Governor Eliot Spitzer pleads guilty...

LexPress: Dissenting Views

Posted on August 25, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.com Posted: 08-25-08 The New York Law Journal examines a recent trend of dissent at the Court of Appeals, and one set of influential judicial endorsements are released.

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LexPress: Gerald Garson V. The Media

Posted on August 22, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.com Posted: 08-22-08 An Albany Justice denies a bid for temporary release by Gerald Garson, a former Judge convicted on bribery charges.

LexPress: Insider Baseball

Posted on August 21, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.com Posted: 08-21-08 In judicial races in Manhattan and Brooklyn, insider candidates play the outsider card.

The Impossible Dream

Posted on August 20, 2008
By Jason Boogjasonboog@judicialstudies.comPosted 08-20-2008A Brooklyn judicial delegate has mounted a campaign to clean up the judge picking process.

HARD HARTBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com

Posted on August 20, 2008
HARD HARTBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 08-20-08Queens County Justice Duane Hart decided, even before the trial in his court got underway, that a high school student’s effort to blame the school district for a rape by a fellow student was “deficient,” according to the Appellate Division...

LexPress: Won't Back Down

Posted on August 20, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.com Posted: 08-20-08 A Hudson Falls Village Court Judge who says the Commission on Judicial Conduct broke a promise to keep his removal stipulation private has reversed his intent to step down from the bench, and will fight the charges...

LexPress: 10 Days Till Contempt

Posted on August 19, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.com Posted: 08-19-08 Southern District Judge Alvin Hellerstein threatens the CIA with contempt.

LexPress: Identity Problems

Posted on August 18, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.com Posted: 08-18-08 A former judge booted off the bench for campaign improprieties defends a Democratic State Assembly candidate who opponents claim is a Republican in disguise. In other news, the Second Circuit decides to rehear the rendition case of Maher Arar...

LexPress: Saudi Immunity and "Merit Selection"

Posted on August 15, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.com Posted: 08-15-08 The Second Circuit reaffirms the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's protection under the Foreign Services Immunity Act from lawsuits filed by 9/11 victims. 

LexPress: Feeder Steps Down

Posted on August 14, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.com Posted: 08-14-08 A Hudson Falls judge steps down after admitting to various improprieties. In other news, John Steinbeck's son fails in his attempt to renegotiate his father's publishing rights.  

Show Me the Money

Posted on August 13, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.com Poste: 08-13-08 Two Civil Court campaigns spar over the meaning of campaign money. One claims conniving. The other claims an innocent mistake. Both involve well-regarded Law Secretaries. Is this any way to run a judiciary? 

NO-FAULT FLAWSBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com

Posted on August 13, 2008
NO-FAULT FLAWSBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 08-13-08The Appellate Division’s Second Department keeps trying to reign in trial judges in Brooklyn in suits brought by plaintiffs trying to get past the threshold set by the Insurance Law and escape the confines of the no-fault compensation system...

LexPress: Shoot the Messenger

Posted on August 13, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.com Posted: 08-13-08 The home of a Queens judge gets shot up. In other news, a Southern District Judge orders the carpenters union to remain under government supervision for another year.

LexPress: Preppy Pleas

Posted on August 12, 2008
By Jason Boogjasonboog@judicialstudies.comPosted 08-12-2008The "Preppy Killer" will go back to prison, and a natural medicine expert will stay out of the poorhouse. Meanwhile, an 8-year-old witness helps convince a judge to throw the book at a convicted murderer...

LexPress: 10-Year Minimum

Posted on August 11, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.com Posted: 08-11-08 A Schenectady County Court Judge takes a stand against gun violence. In other news, a Rochester-area court battle seeks to define the parameters of a living will. 

Bashed Judges Bash Media

Posted on August 08, 2008
By Jason Boogjasonboog@judicialstudies.comPosted 08-06-2008Brought together to compare notes on the current state of judge bashing, a trio of jurists on Friday engaged in a little media bashing.

LexPress: The FBI and Immigrant Voters

Posted on August 08, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.com Poste: 08-08-08 A Southern District Judge says the FBI can't be compelled to quicken citizenship requests in time for the 2008 presidential election. In other news, a Bronx Supreme Court Justice presides over the first legal challenge to Governor Paterson's decision to recognize out-of-state gay marriage licenses.

LexPress: Rubbing Raw Wounds

Posted on August 07, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.com Posted: 08-07-08Lawyers for 9/11 victims whose massive damages settlements were rejected by Southern District Judge Alvin Hellerstein file papers to have the awards reinstated.

Attack of the Video-Bloggers

Posted on August 06, 2008
By Jason Boogjasonboog@judicialstudies.comPosted 08-06-2008Judges are accustomed to objections and exceptions. Many have even grown inured to protests on the courthouse steps. But now, a new series of complaints against a Southern District judge have taken the form of cyber-threats.

‘HAVING’ REGATTASBy

Posted on August 06, 2008
‘HAVING’ REGATTASBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 08-06-08New York County Justice Herman Cahn relied on “strained English usage” to misinterpret the phrase “having for its annual regatta,” according to a divided panel of the Appellate Division...

LexPress: The Vacancy Control Program

Posted on August 06, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 08-06-08 Citing the State's downtrodden economy, Chief Administrative Judge Ann Pfau outlines a plan to rid the courts of excess employees. 

LexPress: DVR Rules

Posted on August 05, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 08-05-08 The Second Circuit rules that Cablevision's proposed network DVR system is legal.   

LexPress: The Eye Contact Court

Posted on August 04, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 08-04-08 A look at the Brooklyn Mental Health Court, where for more than a decade Presiding Judge Matthew D'Emic has employed unusual communication methods to ensure treatment for some of the City's most violent, and mentally unstable, defendants...

LexPress: Courtroom In-Securities

Posted on August 01, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 08-01-08 Class-action securities lawsuits are skyrocketing in New York. Meanwhile, a Guilderland, New York town Supervisor demands that the firm of a lawyer and Town Board Member stop trying cases at the local Town Court, where the official controls the pay to judges.

LexPress: Lucky 13

Posted on July 31, 2008
By Jesse Sunenblickjsunenblick@judicialstudies.comPosted: 07-31-08 The U.S. Justice Department approves a plan to give Staten Island its own Judicial District, making it the State's 13th. 

When Selection Trumps Election

Posted on July 30, 2008
By Leah Nelsonlnelson@judicialstudies.com  Posted 07-30-08Nearly half the members of the State Supreme Court are Acting Justices who received their seats by an appointment process that is practically invisible. 

SMOKED OUTBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com

Posted on July 30, 2008
SMOKED OUTBy Mark Thompsonmarkthomp@yahoo.com Posted 07-30-08For the second time in less than a month, New York County Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Ramos found himself in the news, and on the opposite side of the law from a unanimous Appellate Division panel, for a ruling he made to perpetuate a long-running, landmark lawsuit...

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