The Court of Appeals begins its second week of arguments for the October session on Tuesday, October 17th with three cases on its calendar (the Court's case summaries can be found here). First up is a criminal case asking whether a criminal defendant should have been entitled to a cross-racial identification jury charge at his …
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The Court of Appeals finishes up the first week of arguments in the October session with three criminal cases on the docket (the Court's case summaries can be found here). The Court will hear arguments on the following issues: (1) whether a criminal defendant was entitle to a writ of error coram nobis to reopen …
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The Court of Appeals returns for its second day of argument in the October session on Wednesday, October 11, 2017, with three cases scheduled for argument (the Court's case summaries can be found here). First up, the Court will hear arguments about whether a driver's nervousness, repeated looks toward the back seat, and refusal to …
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The Court of Appeals' October session begins on Tuesday, October 10, 2017, with three cases on the argument calendar (the Court's case summaries can be found here). The Court will face the following issues: (1) whether a Cayman precondition to continuing a derivative suit must be satisfied before the derivative claims may be pursued in …
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The Court of Appeals wraps up the September Session arguments on Wednesday, September 13th with three cases on the docket (the Court's case summaries can be found here). The Court will hear arguments today on the following issues: (1) whether the State established, by clear and convincing evidence, that a sex offender suffered from a …
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The Court of Appeals returns for the second week of argument in the September session on Tuesday, September 12, 2017. There are three cases on the docket today (the Court's case summaries can be found here), which involve the following issues: (1) whether agreements between an investment company and its financial advisors contained an enforceable …
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The Court of Appeals wraps up the first week of argument for the September session with three cases on the docket (the Court's case summaries can be found here). The Court will hear arguments on the following issues: (1) whether Workers' Compensation Law § 25-a(1-a), which phases out a special fund that pays benefits to …
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The Court of Appeals is back for its second day of argument at Court of Appeals Hall, with four cases on the docket (the Court's argument summaries can be found here). Some interesting cases on the calendar today involving the following issues: (1) whether the Second Class Cities Law is superseded by the Taylor Law …
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Welcome back to the first day of argument for the Court of Appeals' 2017-18 term. The Court is back for the first full argument term after its summer break, the first with new Judge Paul Feinman sitting. With lots of exciting cases for New York law on the docket this term (though probably not as …
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This is it, the final day of argument before the Court of Appeals' break for the summer. Â There are only two cases on the argument docket today (the Court's case summaries can be found here), which present the following issues: (1) whether a bail bondsman may retain a bail bond premium if the bond is …
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