A growing concern in the real estate industry is known as “deed theft.” This occurs when a person loses ownership of their home by fraudulent means. This can happen in two different ways. One way occurs when a criminal records a forged deed transferring ownership to an LLC, which is...
This article discusses Section 74 of the New York Civil Rights Law, which provides “absolute” protection against a claim of defamation arising from a “fair and true report of judicial proceedings,” even if the report is made outside the courthouse. It also addresses the application of Section 74 to the...
By Ethan Krasnoo and Ariana Zhao Since summer 2022, Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSGE) has banned attorneys involved in litigation against the company from its venues, which include, among many others, Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall. To justify this decision, MSGE has cited Rule 4.2 of the...
Democratic and Republican lawmakers have come together for the second time this year in an effort to increase transparency for incidents of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace. On September 15, 2022, the Senate Judiciary Committee, acting on a bipartisan basis, unanimously voted to advance the Speak Out Act...
I was on my way down to New Orleans for Realscreen Summit 2020 when the woman in front of me announced to the plane that Kobe Bryant was dead. By the time we landed, the rumor was confirmed and the breaking news splashed across every smartphone in sight. In this...
The Federal Correctional Institute in Memphis, Tennessee, (“FCI-Memphis”) is one of 122 prisons run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). The inmates at FCI-Memphis are all males, but the institution has 49 female employees. Due to a chronic shortage of correctional officers, FCI-Memphis regularly “augments” (i.e. requires) females to...
In Morgan v. Sundance, Inc., No. 21-328, 2022 WL 1611788 (U.S. May 23, 2022), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts, in analyzing a claim that a party has waived the right to arbitrate a dispute under the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”), should not impose a requirement of prejudice....
Friends and acquaintances who are not lawyers (and even some who are) have expressed curiosity and confusion about the recent well-publicized decision by Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York to dismiss the defamation lawsuit brought by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin against the New York Times....
In a 6-3 decision issued January 13, 2022, the Supreme Court cast significant doubt on the viability of a pillar of President Biden’s plan to fight to the spread of Covid-19. The Court’s majority held that challengers were likely to succeed on their claim that the Occupational Safety and Health...
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive orders, commencing at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, effectively froze statutory and court imposed deadlines for all manner of legal proceedings. For civil proceedings, at least, that stoppage lasted through Nov. 3, 2020. In the months since, a few courts have had a chance to...