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Town justice in Cayuga County resigns after DWI
A town justice in Cayuga County has resigned while under investigation by the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 – Second Amendment: Christian v. James
- Fourth Department – Motion to renew: Brown v. State of New York
- Fourth Department – Adult Survivors Act: Jane Doe v. Moran, et al.
- Second Circuit – Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act: Article 13 LLC v. LaSalle Nat’l Bank Ass’n
- Fourth Department – Speedy trial: People v. Walker
- Fourth Department – Surrogacy: Matter of Baby A and Baby B.
- Fourth Department – Medical malpractice: Verebridge v. Harpreet Deol, et al.
- Fourth Department – Res judicata: Varma v. Allstate Insurance Co.
- Second Circuit – Federal Reserve Act:Banco San Juan Internacional, Inc. v. Fed. Rsrv. Bank of N.Y., Bd. of Governors of the Fed. Rsrv.
- Second Circuit – Sentencing: United States v. Jimenez
- Fourth Department – Adult Survivors Act: Van Hooser v. Etasam Inc.
Law News
- Experts highlight tax and regulatory changes
- NY appeals court reinstates robbery indictment
- Court of Appeals affirms convictions despite tainted transcript
- Phillips Lytle names new Rochester office leader
- Court annuls New York State’s wetland regulations for failure to comply with SEQRA
- Driver who caused fatal MVA sued by victim’s mother
- NY Court of Appeals resolves Appellate Division inconsistency
- Oneida County attorney disbarred after Trump pardon
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