JURIST
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey, and 21 other states, sued New York Thursday over a new law requiring fossil fuel companies to contribute seventy-five billion dollars to a fund to pay for damages caused by climate change. The state of New York has yet to reply to this brief.
JURIST
JANUARY 25, 2025
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday a new $7.5 Attorney Letitia James stressed the inadequacy of the money settlement to remedy the human toll that the drug epidemic has caused but stressed that money from the settlement would be used to help repair communities ravaged by opioids.
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JURIST
APRIL 11, 2025
A coalition of 19 attorneys general filed a 31-page amicus brief with the US Supreme Court on Wednesday, claiming a Maryland county’s policy of incorporating LGBTQ-inclusive books into their curriculum with no opt-out option for parents does not violate the US Constitution.
JURIST
MAY 5, 2022
A press conference was held Wednesday to announce a constitutional challenge against the redistricting of the New York State Assembly’s electoral districts. ” On April 27 the New York Court of Appeals held that the Congressional and Senate maps adopted by the New York Legislature were procedurally unconstitutional. .”
JURIST
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Monday asked a judge to move up the start of his criminal trial by three weeks, claiming the new date would better allow him to run for reelection. Adams’ letter confirmed his intention to participate in the 2025 Democratic primary for the New York City mayoral seat.
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
So maybe Petersburgh, New York Town Court Justice Richard T. As reported by Law.com, Snyder, a non-attorney judge, resigned from the bench after 10 years of service on December 31 and agreed to never seek reelection. His jury duty excuse led to an investigation by the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct.
JURIST
MAY 8, 2024
A class action complaint filed this week accuses New York prison officials of holding disabled inmates in solitary confinement in violation of state law. New York’s passage of the HALT Act represented an historic and important step in preventing the harms that solitary causes for incarcerated people with disabilities. . …
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