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Mentally impaired man’s confession not voluntary
A Cayuga County man’s limited mental capacity to fully understand the impacts of waiving his Miranda rights and police interrogation tactics deemed coercive because of that prevented him from intelligently and voluntarily waiving those rights, an appeals court ruled Friday. Allegations included raping a 3-year-old girl. The Appellate Division, Fourth Department unanimously threw out all [&hell[...]
Lighter sentence upheld in DA-judge dispute
A Cayuga County judge did not violate the law when he sentenced a drug defendant to one year less than what the district attorney thought was an agreed-upon sentence. The Appellate Division, Fourth Department on Friday unanimously ruled in favor of Cayuga County Court Judge Thomas G. Leone in an Article 78 challenge brought by […]
Central NY teen charged with killing stepfather
FLEMING — An 18-year-old man is accused of stabbing his stepfather to death with a kitchen knife in their central New York home as a younger sibling watched. Cayuga County Sheriff David Gould is asking the public’s help finding the knife used Monday night to kill 41-year-old John Welsh of Fleming, 25 miles southwest of Syracuse. […]
Cayuga County — Judicial Immunity: Stoudymire v. New York State Division of Human Rights
Supreme Court, Cayuga County Judicial Immunity Jurisdiction Stoudymire v. New York State Division of Human Rights 2012-0256 Justice Valentino Background: The petitioner sought review of the respondent Department of Human Rights’ determination that dismissed the petitioner’s complaint of unlawful discrimination for lack of jurisdiction. The petitioner alleged that the respondent, the Hon. Micha[...]
DHR: No jurisdiction in discrimination claim
The owner of an Auburn counseling business is still trying to get her discrimination claim heard. Anita Stoudymire alleges Auburn City Court Judge Michael F. McKeon discriminated against her and illegally blacklisted her business, Recovery Counseling, by diverting clients to another facility. Judge McKeon, in a letter dated Oct. 19, 2010, notified Stoudymire that the […]
Adverse Possession: Camardo v. City of Auburn, et al.
Supreme Court, Cayuga County Adverse Possession Actual & Exclusive Possession — Waste of Taxpayer Funds Camardo v. City of Auburn, et al. 2011-0072 Judge Valentino Background: The case arose out of an ownership dispute over a 1.9-foot strip of land over which a storage room was constructed and attached to the west wall of the […]
Cayuga judge censured
The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct on Thursday determined that Brian M. Dugan, a justice of the Scipio Town Court in Cayuga County, should be censured.
High Court will not hear Seneca/Cayuga case
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request by Seneca and Cayuga counties to hear a case involving a tax dispute with the Cayuga Indian Nation of New York.
Counties turn to High Court in land dispute
Leaders in Seneca and Cayuga counties are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider hearing a case involving the sovereignty of the Cayuga Indian Nation.
Case Digests
- Second Circuit – Class certification: Arkansas Teachers Retirement System V. Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
- Fourth Department – Show-up identification: People v. Waggoner
- Fourth Department – Association: Victory Village Tenants Assoc. v. Evergreen Communities, et al.
- Second Circuit – In personam jurisdiction: Kaplan v. Bank Saderat PLC
- Fourth Department – Labor Law: Verdugo v. Fox Building Group
- Fourth Department – Out-of-possession landlord: Truax v. M.D. Meyer’s Properties
- Fourth Department – Discovery: Sylvester v. Sanders
- Fourth Department – Out-of-possession landlord: Smith v. Marshall Farms Group, et al.
- Second Circuit – Supervised release: United States v. Francis
- Fourth Department – Court of Claims: Santiago v. State of New York
- Fourth Department – Peremptory challenge: People v. Santiago
- Fourth Department – Negligence: Scime v. Hale Northeastern
Law News
- The Daily Record’s Power List for Intellectual Property 2023
- NY ethics panel says judges can join NRA
- Harter Secrest & Emery LLP names partner-in-charge of Buffalo office
- Banned professor sues SUNY Fredonia leaders
- Hochul signs law requiring unemployment insurance information from employers
- Appeals court cancels fine against Rochester nursing home
- Deal reached to protect reproductive health care rights at Jefferson County jail
- $1.5M settlement reached in fatal shooting by Canandaigua police officer
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