CasePrepPlus: February 14, 2025
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Author: Alexandre Petraglia [ADMIN]
NYSBA President Urges State Legislature To Reject Sweep of up to $120 Million From Crucial Fund That Ensures Access to Justice
Domenick Napoletano, president of the New York State Bar Association, urged the state Legislature today to reject Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal to sweep up to $120 million from the Indigent Legal Services fund to the state’s general fund. “The Indigent Legal Services fund is crucial in ensuring that New York State, its 62 counties and … Continued
Ethics Opinion 1278: Disclosure of prior relationship with witness.
Opinion 1278 (02/05/2025) Topic: Disclosure of prior relationship with witness. Digest: Under Rule 3.8(b), a prosecutor is required to timely disclose her past romantic relationship with a law enforcement officer in any case where the officer is to be a witness whose testimony could be subject to challenge. Rules 3.3(a)(1) and 3.4(a)(3) may also be … Continued
Why Attorneys Should Understand Military Culture
To better understand veteran clients, attorneys should learn more about military culture, including trauma. A recent Continuing Legal Education course, presented by the New York State Bar Association, discussed the experiences of servicemembers and veterans and how it can affect their interactions with the court system. Nancy Farrell, director of the Veterans Defense Program at … Continued
CasePrepPlus: February 7, 2025
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On Appeal: The Case for a Rigorous N.Y. Bar Exam
Justice Mark Dillon of the New York State Supreme Court, Second Judicial Department, agreed to spend an hour discussing the New York bar examination with the co-chairs of NYSBA’s Committee on Legal Education and Admission To The Bar, Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus and David R. Marshall, who co-authored the feature article in the Fall 2024 issue of … Continued
New York State Law Digest: February 2025
CASE LAW DEVELOPMENTS Court of Appeals Holds That Punitive Damages Are Not an Available Remedy in a General Business Law § 349 Action Concurrence Believes Majority Embarked on “Gratuitous Ride” By Unnecessarily Addressing an Issue That Neither Party Offered “More Than a Glancing Analysis” In Hobish v. AXA Equit. Life Ins. Co., 2025 N.Y. Slip … Continued
FBI Tactics Criticized by Federal Court Ruling on Warrantless Spying in the U.S.
A federal judge in the Eastern District of New York last week released a redacted version of her order declaring that government spying on a New York City resident by a domestic intelligence agency, based on its review of a National Security Agency database, without a warrant, was unconstitutional. Judge LaShann Moutique DeArcy Hall wrote … Continued
A New Era in Nuclear Arms Reduction
“The risk for nuclear war is higher than any time since the end of the Cold War.” That stark warning from Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, kicked off the discussion at the recent conference, “Nuclear Weapons and International Law 2025: Nuclear Risks through a Legal Lens,” which was organized by the … Continued
CasePrepPlus: January 31, 2025
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