Stalking conviction overturned in nude-photos case
A West Village man who says he only took nude photos of his neighbor to prove she was “enticing’’ him by prancing around naked has had his stalking conviction overturned. Norman Venson, 61, pleaded...
View ArticleEx-senator Pedro Espada loses appeal to overturn conviction
Disgraced former state Sen. Pedro Espada’s bid to overturn his 2013 conviction and five-year sentence for looting his tax-funded nonprofit was tossed by a federal appeals court Monday. Espada argued...
View ArticleIf Andrew Cuomo stacks court with Democrats, watch out NY
Another New York institution may be about to turn all blue: the Court of Appeals. Will the last conservative in New York please turn off the lights? After serving more than 12 years of her 14-year...
View ArticleThe last voices of sanity on New York’s top court
As New York hurtles toward an all-Democratic Court of Appeals — a bench of last resort without a single conservative — let’s tip our hat to Judge Susan Read. She’s the next-to-last Republican on the...
View ArticleJudge uses ‘When a Man Loves a Woman’ lyrics to render decision
This is one soul fool judge. Brooklyn federal Judge Frederic Block ruled Wednesday that the wife of disgraced ex-state Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. will be awarded his pension when her husband dies –...
View ArticleWill Gov. Cuomo stack the state’s top court with Democrats?
The names are in, and now Gov. Cuomo has another chance to bring some level of bipartisanship to the state’s judiciary. The Commission on Judicial Nomination, headed by former Chief Judge Judith Kaye,...
View ArticleGarcia shouldn’t be the only Republican in NY’s top court
Gov. Cuomo just took our advice and named former US Attorney Michael Garcia to the New York Court of Appeals — restoring a measure of ideological diversity to the state’s highest court. But that...
View ArticleNYPD doesn’t have to release reports on surveillance vans
A Manhattan appeals court has stopped the release of information about NYPD surveillance vans, siding with the police department’s argument that the document dump could help terrorists. The nonprofit...
View ArticleCourt blocks government from seizing Fifth Avenue tower
A Manhattan federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked the government from seizing a 36-story Fifth Avenue office tower prosecutors had secured in a record 2014 terrorism-related forfeiture agreement....
View ArticleCourt rules caretakers can get custody of non-biological kids
Being a parent in New York now means a whole lot more. The state’s highest court ruled Tuesday that caretakers can seek custody of children they haven’t adopted or to whom they aren’t biologically...
View ArticleCourt ruling puts city on the hook in dangerous-streets suit
The city is going to have to do a better job of fixing dangerous streets or it could be facing a slew of big lawsuits, thanks to a ruling by the state’s highest court in the case of a young boy injured...
View ArticleSecond African American judge nominated for Court of Appeals
ALBANY – Gov. Cuomo announced Monday– Martin Luther King Day — that he has nominated a second African American to serve on the Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court. The nomination of Rowan...
View ArticleCourt reinstates conviction of ex-Goldman programmer
The tortured, eight-year legal saga of Sergey Aleynikov, the former Goldman Sachs programmer, took another twist on Tuesday when a state appeals court voted 5-0 to reinstate his May 2015 conviction....
View ArticleEx-Goldman programmer taking too much of the blame
With all the nonsense that occurred during the last financial crisis, nobody got punished except Sergey Aleynikov. He was a computer programmer for Goldman Sachs who was accused, convicted,...
View ArticleIf you do the crime, don’t post proof on Facebook
Anyone who uses social media has heard the advice: If you want to keep something secret, don’t post it on Facebook. Which is why Manhattan DA Cy Vance is absolutely right to defend his office’s bid to...
View ArticleEx-Goldman ‘flash boy’ wins right to appeal his conviction
The nearly eight-year legal odyssey of former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov is not over, after New York State’s highest court agreed to review his reinstated conviction for stealing...
View ArticleCourt bars judges from taking both salaries and pensions
Double dipping has lost its appeal. The state’s highest court last week ruled that judges can no longer collect both their salaries and their pensions. The 5-0 decision by the Court of Appeals was a...
View ArticleWhistleblower wins more than $1M in lawsuit over demotion
A whistleblower triumphed in a 20-year battle with City Hall, winning more than $1 million to compensate for a pay cut and demotion he suffered after reporting corruption. As a Department of...
View ArticleAppeals court slashes record verdict awarded to families of crane collapse...
A Manhattan appeals court has slashed a record-breaking $95 million jury award to $35 million against construction magnate James Lomma over the 2008 crane collapse that killed two workers on the...
View ArticleJudge says Spitzer ‘acted with actual malice’ vs. AIG’s ex-CEO
Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, former chief executive of American International Group, may pursue large parts of his defamation lawsuit against former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, a New York...
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