Panel: You can be a Court of Appeals judge 
If you think you would like to be a judge on the state Court of Appeals, then submit your application. That’s the message members of the state Commission on Judicial Nomination brought when they came with their “road show” to Rochester on Wednesday to encourage qualified candidates to apply. It is the beginning of a [...]
Case Digests
- Court of Appeals — Proximate Cause: Williams, et al. v. State of New York
- WDNY — Duplicative Indictments: United States v. Love
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Second Circuit — Securities Fraud: City of Omaha, Neb. Civilian Emps.’ Ret. Sys. v. CBS Corp.
- Second Circuit — Kosher Protection Act: Commack Self-Service Kosher Meats Inc. v. Hooker
- WDNY — Bankruptcy: Eastman Kodak Company v. Collins Ink Corporation
Gradl joins Damon Morey
Cindy Algase Gradl has joined Damon Morey LLP as special counsel in the firm’s Corporate Department. She has over 25 years experience in all aspects of tax law, corporate law, securities law, estate planning, mergers and acquisitions, employment law and human resources management, working with clients in both privately traded and publicly held corporations.
City students ‘practice’ law in a real courthouse
Issues in a case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court were taken up last week by ninth-grade city students before the Appellate Division, Fourth Department. Separate panels of judges heard arguments from students at World of Inquiry School No. 58 in the third annual Moot Court competition, sponsored by the court. All 64 ninth-graders participated, [...]
Records
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Satisfactions of Judgments Supreme and County Court Docketed County Clerk for May 17, 2012
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Judgments Supreme and County Court Docketed County Clerk for May 17, 2012
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Judgments City Court Transcribed to Supreme and County Court for May 17, 2012
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Cancellation of Lis Pendens for May 17, 2012
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Lis Pendens for May 17, 2012
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The employment at-will doctrine withstood another challenge. Last week on May 8, the New York Court of Appeals affirmed the First Department and rendered a decision refusing to create an employment at-will exception for a corporate compliance officer who complained of security trade irregularities to the security firm’s principal, Sullivan v. Harnisch, 2012 NY Lexis…
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