Years of legislative debate over the role state judges should play in granting custody rights during cases of alleged abuse may finally be over after the legislature passed a bill that includes new procedures, evidentiary standards and considerations for those cases.
Read MoreNew York City and Queens County Bar Associations last week released their ratings for each of the four candidates running for the two open spots on the borough’s Civil Court bench.
Read MoreA former Queens Defenders attorney who was wrongfully accused of smuggling drugs into Rikers Island is suing the city and the correctional officers’ union who levied the accusations against him, alleging he was unlawfully detained and defamed so the union could score political points.
Read MoreA Queens Housing Court judge ordered the city’s “worst landlord” to fix the hazardous living conditions at a crumbling Elmhurst apartment by the end of the month or face consequences.
Read MoreNew York lawmakers sent a bill to Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk that includes several major reforms to how the courts determine if defendants are capable of standing trial.
Read MoreA popular bill that promised to give New York the means to appoint more desperately needed trial court justices failed to make it out of the legislature last week, leaving its future, as well as the prospect of increasing the number of justices in the state, uncertain.
Read MoreTwo Queens men who each served around three decades in prison are asking a judge to toss their conviction after they uncovered new evidence that they say proves their innocence.
Read MoreA bill passed by the state legislature on Tuesday offers a small first step into shedding light on how judges make important decisions that affect every day New Yorkers.
Read MoreThe founder and longtime executive director of Brooklyn Defender Services, the city’s second-largest public defense firm, will retire at the end of the year.
Read MoreQueens residents brought one of the city’s most notorious landlords to court on Monday after they said over 350 violations plaguing their building had gone unaddressed for years.
Read MoreAfter serving 26 years in prison for a murder he says he didn’t commit, Michael Robinson was back in a Queens courtroom Thursday, facing a retrial around half a decade after new DNA evidence unraveled his original conviction.
Read MoreA bill that would create a formal process for long-time incarcerated individuals to get a judge to reconsider their sentence was passed by a key Senate committee last month, creating the first real opportunity in years for the bill to become law.
Read MoreThe fight over age limits for judges reached New York’s highest court last week, in a case that could have lasting implications for who can hold a seat on the bench.
Read MoreA New York law firm accused of scamming tenants facing eviction out of more than $170,000 while failing to provide legal representation will shut down after reaching a deal with the state attorney general, who uncovered the alleged fraud during a recent investigation.
Read MoreWith just over a month until their contract expires, labor talks at Brooklyn Defender Services have stalled, prompting union attorneys to accuse management of bad-faith bargaining and raise the possibility of a strike.
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