Happy New Year! It's now 2020 and the Court of Appeals is back in session. It's time to check in on the cases in which the Court of Appeals has granted leave to appeal from the beginning of the 2019-2020 term. September 2019 Session Daniels v New York City Transit Authority, 171 AD3d 601 (1st Dept …
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Ten months after the First Department held that the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution does not divest state courts of jurisdiction over a state law case against a sitting President, the First Department has granted President Trump leave to appeal to bring that question of first impression in New York to the Court …
Oral argument of an appeal is often an appellate attorney's most fun moment in a case. You've labored over lengthy briefs on the issues at hand, thought about how you want the appellate court to decide your case, and pored over the briefs and record for hours creating an iron clad argument that will tip …
It isn't often that New York appellate courts deny someone the right to submit an amicus brief in a pending appeal. It happens, but it's rare. In fact, the only time that I remember seeing a New York appellate court turn away a proposed amicus brief was when the proposed amicus had a direct financial …
The State and the Plaintiffs aren't the only ones who want to be heard on whether the New York Interactive Fantasy Sports Law violates New York's constitutional ban on gambling. And New York courts are happy to hear their opinions. In White v Cuomo, three parties have sought and been granted leave to file amici …
What kind of world do we live in, the Plaintiffs in White v Cuomo want to know in their constitutional challenge to New York's Interactive Fantasy Sports Law that authorized and regulated daily fantasy sports games in New York for the first time. "[A] Shakespearean world inhabited by Romeo and Juliet where substance trumps form, and a rose …
Contracts are often ambiguous. They are usually long, with many terms, and you never know how they will apply in circumstances that the parties never contemplated. That's why the power to go to court to ask for an interpretation of the agreement and how it applies to the unique facts that the parties face has …
The game for the fate of daily fantasy sports in New York is on, and the State has scored first. Ok, ok. In appellate litigation, the losing party below always gets the ball first. And the State certainly lost below in this one. Judge Connolly of Supreme Court, Albany County held that daily fantasy sports …
In a unanimous decision authored by Judge Michael Garcia, the Court of Appeals today resolved an important issue of first impression implicating multi-state practice in New York—“whether an action, such as filing a complaint, taken by a lawyer duly admitted to the bar of this State but without the required New York office is a …
Everyone admits that the backlog of pending appeals in the Appellate Division, Second Department is a problem. As Presiding Justice Alan Scheinkman acknowledged in an op-ed in the NY Law Journal last fall, "it can take as long as 18 months for a civil appeal to obtain a place on the court’s day calendar and …
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