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By Jesse Sunenblick
jsunenblick@judicialstudies.com
Posted: 07-24-08
A Manhattan judge rules against a group of taxpayers seeking a judicial inquiry into the City Council for its practice of earmarking funds to fictitious groups. In other news, the Justice Department pulls all stops in an effort to get a casino built in Buffalo.
By Leah Nelson
lnelson@judicialstudies.com
Posted 07-23-08
One Brooklyn AJ made a parking promise no one has kept. And the current AJ, with a little help from one colleague, seems to have done as much harm as good. What now?
By Jason Boog
jasonboog@judicialstudies.com
Posted 07-17-08
The referee in Thursday's judge salary slugfest seemed to be leaning to one side.
By Jason Boog
jasonboog@judicialstudies.com
Posted 07-16-08
As the judicial salary fight reaches the final rounds, both sides are on the offense. One wants you to think of judges as high-end clerks. The other wants you to think of them as altruists who gave up a corner office at some large firm. Who are you rooting for?
By Leah Nelson
lnelson@judicialstudies.com
Posted 07-09-08
The system for adjudicating accusations of misconduct against attorneys sounds relatively fair and efficient on its face. So why does the system put such a mask on its administration?
Correction Appended
By Jason Boog
jasonboog@judicialstudies.com
Posted 07-02-08
Judges are expected to be fair but firm, empathetic but efficient. But with a crushing workload and an often ungrateful public, what happens when a member of the bench reaches the breaking point? A special report on the mental health of the judiciary.
By Jesse Sunenblick
jsunenblick@judicialstudies.com
Posted: 06-30-08
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau responds to a New York Times story about a skeptical prosecutor who says he tanked a case against a man he believed to be innocent.
By Leah Nelson
lnelson@judicialstudies.com
Posted 06-25-08
The State Legislature has asked judges to help solve the homeowner loan crisis. Problem is, judges don't have the authority to suspend the laws of economics or the ability to make invisible litigants appear out of thin air.
By Jesse Sunenblick
jsunenblick@judicialstudies.com
Posted 06-18-08
Litigants are prevented, under the doctrine of judicial immunity, from suing jurists over the content of their decisions. But when it comes to discipline, the Commission on Judicial Conduct doesn't feel similarly constrained.
By Jason Boog
jasonboog@judicialstudies.com
Posted 06-11-08
In one of the three salary suits by New York judges that are pending against the State, round one goes to the plaintiffs. And now?
By Jesse Sunenblick
jsunenblick@judicialstudies.com
Posted 06-11-08
The Commission on Judicial Conduct recently doubled its resources. Now, are they serving and protecting the court system or engaging in 'judge police' brutality?
By Jason Boog
jasonboog@judicialstudies.com
Posted 04-03-08
The Legislature's nearly decade-long inaction on a judicial pay raise has prompted fears that jurists will engage in mass recusals involving any cases connected with legislator-lawyers. A report from the field.
By Leah Nelson
lnelson@judicialstudies.com
Posted 05-28-08
The City’s most populous borough was ahead of the curve in addressing the high default rate among residential foreclosures. Alas, its effort to date has largely been in vain.
By Leah Nelson
lnelson@judicialstudies.com
Posted 05-28-08
The governor has charged New York's courts with fixing the foreclosure crisis. Never mind the lack of money, time, transparency, or judicial authority to get the job done.
TAMPER-PROOF
By Mark Thompson
markthomp@yahoo.com
Posted 07-23-08
Justice Richard D. Carruthers let prosecutors get away with piling on one too many charges against a lawyer who helped a con man loot over $27 million from the Evergreen Securities Fund, the Appellate Division said.
Carruthers deftly skirted other potential problems during the trial of James P. Conroy, said a unanimous appellate panel, in upholding Conroy’s convictions on the three main counts of grand larceny. An abundance of evidence supported the jury’s conclusion that Conroy helped William Zylka, the central player in the fraud scheme, bilk the offshore investment fund of millions by, among other things, vastly inflating the value of collateral, the Appellate Division ruled. Based on the evidence, the jury also could have reasonably concluded that, even before he first accompanied Zylka to a meeting with the fund’s manager, Conroy should have known that Zylka “was a virtually impecunious swindler and not the magnanimous billionaire he professed to be.” But there was no evidence that Conroy intended that the two false documents he prepared for Zylka would be used “in an official proceeding,” so Carruthers should have dismissed the convictions on two counts of tampering with physical evidence, the appellate panel said.
By Scott H. Greenfield
Posted 11-21-07
It's been more than 40 years since the U.S. Supreme Court enshrined the principle that due process demands true discovery. Laugh till you cry.
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