Queens City Councilmember Vickie Paladino is suing her colleagues after the legislature’s ethics committee charged her with violating the Council’s anti-discrimination and harassment rules for a series of Islamophobic remarks she posted to social media.
Read MoreComplaints made against New York judges reached an all-time high for the fifth year in a row, according to the commission charged with investigating judicial conduct.
Read MoreQueens finds itself in the middle of a historic period for its courts – for the first time in the borough’s history, over half of the borough’s courts are being led by Black women.
Read MoreFor the second time in a month, a state appellate court has overturned a Queens conviction after finding that a trial judge abandoned his role as neutral referee, asking witnesses more than 800 questions and berating the defense attorney in front of the jury.
Read MoreNew York’s top judge shined a light on the state’s Family Courts, which he described as “simultaneously the most important of our courts, the most difficult court for judges, lawyers and parties, and the most under-resourced of our courts,” during his annual State of the Judiciary speech on Monday.
Read MoreHundreds of New Yorkers gathered on the steps of the State Capitol to call on lawmakers to pass a series of prison sentencing reform bills on Monday.
Read MoreAdvocates and lawmakers recently rallied in support of a bill that would eliminate a number of court fees, which they say are often immense financial and emotional burdens for working class New Yorkers.
Read MoreMayor Zohran Mamdani’s pick to lead the Law Department faced the City Council on Wednesday, and received a mix of praise and concern as the legacy of the previous administration’s corporation counsel pick remained fresh in councilmembers' minds.
Read MoreMayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday tapped a prominent Queens lawyer to lead City Hall’s judicial selection committee, a little-known group the new mayor vowed to “revitalize” by opening its work to the public.
Read MoreA judge on Friday ordered the city to temporarily refrain from entering into a new agreement over use of Citi Field’s parking lot with Steve Cohen, potentially torpedoing the Mets owner’s bid to bring a casino to Queens.
Read MoreTwo and a half years after his 1993 murder conviction was overturned, a Queens man and his attorneys claim that they are ready for the retrial but have been subject to countless delays from the Queens district attorney’s office and the courts.
Read MoreLori Zeno, the former head of Queens Defenders, allegedly stole tens of thousands of dollars from the organization she founded to fund luxury vacations, a teeth-whitening procedure and other personal expenses, prosecutors said this week.
Read MoreThe city’s largest public defender union on Thursday said that the city needs to boost funding for legal services providers if it wants to help avert a mass strike that has the potential to bring the city’s courts to a screeching halt this summer.
Read MoreSupporters of Hiram Monserrate are appealing a February court decision which upheld a law specifically created to stop the former lawmaker from running for office because of his criminal history.
Read MoreMayor Eric Adams was sued by the City Council on Monday for his refusal to implement a law banning solitary confinement in the city’s jails.
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