Who Calls the Shots?
In New York, Public Health Law § 2164 requires parents to vaccinate their children against serious diseases like measles, polio, chicken pox and whooping cough.
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2018 CPLR Amendments Wrap Up
2018 was a banner year for CPLR amendments, with a relatively significant number of bills being signed into law. We dealt with some of the major ones in the March 2018 (CPLR 203(g) and 214-a) and the October 2018 (CPLR 2305(d), 4540-a, 5003-b, and 7515) editions of the Digest. We now deal with the last major … Continued
Deportation Is a Life Sentence: Immigration Consequences in Family Court Proceedings
“Deportation is a life sentence,” according to Professor Sarah Rogerson, director of the Immigration Law Clinic at Albany Law School. Rogerson was speaking at the Robert J. Schack Memorial Program, held by the Committee on Children and the Law during NYSBA’s Annual Meeting. Her topic covered the minefield that a family court proceeding can present … Continued
NYSBA Plans Gala Dinner for 2020 Annual Meeting
Legal luminaries like Benjamin N. Cardozo, and even former U.S. presidents like Dwight D. Eisenhower, all share a common bond special to the New York State Bar Association – they delivered addresses at Annual Meeting dinners. From 1878 to 1995, the Annual Dinner was the flagship event for NYSBA, sometimes drawing more than 1,000 people. … Continued
Deportation Is a Life Sentence: Immigration Consequences in Family Court Proceedsings
“Deportation is a life sentence,” according to Professor Sarah Rogerson, director of the Immigration Law Clinic at Albany Law School. Rogerson was speaking at the Robert J. Schack Memorial Program, held by the Committee on Children and the Law during NYSBA’s Annual Meeting. Her topic covered the minefield that a family court proceeding can present … Continued
Get Ready to Take the Bar Exam
Membership in the New York State Bar Association comes with a long list of benefits – deep discounts on legal research tools, car rentals, insurance, even tickets to sporting events. NYSBA has now joined forces with Kaplan Bar Review, a premier service for bar exam preparation and the world leader in the test prep industry, … Continued
The Juror Who Exchanged 7,000 Text Messages
It was exactly what the judge warned the jurors not to do.
Implicit Bias: A Law Enforcement Perspective
Police officers risk their lives just by coming to work. Their duties expose them to the worst aspects of humanity and demand that they take nothing at face value. They are required to make split-second decisions in dangerous situations and trust that their training and instinct lets them see what’s real. The public does not … Continued
LGBT Parentage Under the Ruling in Brooke S.B.
Brooke S.B. is the story of what constitutes a family and of passionate advocacy in the face of seemingly impossible odds. It deeply moved attendees at the Jan. 17 Family Law Section meeting during the New York State Bar Association’s Annual Meeting in New York City. Brett Figlewski, legal director of the LGBT Bar Association of … Continued
Examining Privacy Concerns with IoT
All the devices in our daily lives know more about us than we realize- where we are, what we eat, even our shopping habits. In fact, everyone is connected to the internet in so many ways that now only five percent of connected devices are personal computers. Known as the ‘internet of things,’ these devices, … Continued