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Commentary: Better carry your passport in Utah
Last year Arizona caused a nationwide furor when it enacted a law, SB 1070, that invited racial and ethnic profiling. The law’s most controversial provision requires a police officer to ask for and verify the identification papers of all persons stopped or arrested ...
Commentary: Juveniles deserve a second chance
Sentencing criminals to life without parole appeals to folks. Certain criminals, we can tell now, cannot be rehabilitated. Don’t waste the resources of our parole boards on them. Lock ’em up and throw away the key. Between 2003 and 2008, individuals serving life without parole ...
Commentary: Educating the children of undocumented aliens
A polling firm calls you and asks you a series of questions about undocumented aliens residing in the country, the “illegal immigrants” of media fame. One question pertains to K-12 education. Should the children of undocumented aliens be educated in our public schools?
Commentary: House: Don’t single out Planned Parenthood
On Feb. 18, the House of Representatives passed a budget resolution containing billions of cuts. One program not to be funded is Title X, which provides family planning services. A major recipient of Title X funds is Planned Parenthood.
Commentary: Courts should not tolerate ‘immigrant bashing’
Last year Arizona passed a sweeping and obnoxious law targeting undocumented aliens, “illegal immigrants,” within the state. The Obama administration brought suit and a federal district court struck down most of the law.
Commentary: Antiquated law could keep people from public office
The City of Rochester seems unable to retain its mayors. The latest casualty is Thomas Richards. He succumbed to the Hatch Act, a widely cited but poorly understood federal election law.
Commentary: Born in the U.S.A.
Who is a citizen of the United States? The first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment is very explicit: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”
Commentary: Some criticism of ‘Citizens United’ unjustified
Two months after the Congressional election we are still assessing the impact on the election of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last January in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. , 130 S.Ct. 876 (2010).
Commentary: Border patrol’s authority is not unlimited
Sometimes doing right causes a person a heap of harm, courtesy of the government. To compound the harm, the person may be without legal redress. Take the example of Monica Castro ...
Commentary: The real cost of DOMA
Your spouse, whom you have cherished more than 40 years and whom you married two years ago, dies. You deeply mourn her passing. She leaves you all of her property, worth $4.5 million.
Commentary: How collecting sales tax could violate your privacy
You purchase several books from Amazon.com on how to handle your own divorce, why God does not exist, personality disorders and the evils of Obama zombies. As you check out, you note with a chuckle that Amazon does not charge you sales tax.
Commentary: California’s weedy issue
By the time you read this column, we will know the outcome of the vote in California on Proposition 19, which would allow adults age 21 and older to possess and grow small amounts of marijuana for personal use. It also would allow municipalities ...
Case Digests
- Fourth Department – Negligent performance: Rosenthal v. Syracuse University, et al.
- Second Circuit – Visual Artists Rights Act: Kerson v. Vermont Law School Inc.
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Former foreclosure referee: Opinion 22-157
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – College honorarium: Opinion 22-156
- Second Circuit – Reasonable accommodation: Tafolla v. Heilig
- Fourth Department – Labor Law: Primisch v. Peroxychem LLC
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Judicial candidacy: Opinion 22-155
- Fourth Department – Defamation: Lavine v. Glavin
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Law clerk: Opinion 22-154
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Review of another judge’s actions: Opinion 22-153
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Charitable contributions: Opinion 22-150
- Second Circuit – Class action settlement: Moses v. The New York Times Company
Law News
- Appeals court upholds conviction
- Federal lawsuit reinstated against jail officer over strip search, delayed release
- Hyzon to pay $25M penalty to settle alleged fraud charges by SEC
- NY appeals court reinstates lawsuit over contract to remove snow
- Fourth Department affirms $400K judgment in contract dispute
- Fourth Department affirms decision in NY property dispute
- Greenlight Networks selects Buffalo-based attorney as general counsel
- Barclay Damon hires attorney Matt Smith
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