Brian Lee is a Litigation Reporter at the New York Law Journal. He specializes in law and legal affairs, focusing on topics such as civil lawsuits, family court, and legal technology, including blockchain and decentralized finance. Brian's work has been featured in numerous outlets, including The New York Times, Yahoo News, and Fortune.
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By: Brian Lee
The New York Court of Appeals was in rare accord in striking down the state government-created program that had allowed parents to temporarily place their child in the custody of child welfare, without forfeiting their parental rights. Associate Judge Anthony Cannataro wrote for the high court.
By: Brian Lee
A federal appeals court posed questions to the New York Court of Appeals about whether a law that requires social media platforms to monitor expressions of hate works to chill First Amendment protections.
By: Brian Lee
A number of Court of Appeals jurists implied that there should be limits to the right to record police. The appeal stands to have broad implications for civilian oversight of law enforcement.
By: Brian Lee
A 4-3 holding by the New York Court of Appeals denied an estate's labor law claim, after finding the state's workplace safety code concerning excavators was too vague.
By: Brian Lee
A Hodgson Russ partner asked an Albany appellate court to reverse state Supreme Court Justice Denise Hartman's May 12 holding that boxed out the GOP gubernatorial ticket from matching funds due to a filing mistake. The rules are the rules, and they shouldn't be relaxed, regardless of the applicant's political affiliation, he argued.
By: Brian Lee
The per curiam opinion highlighted the fact that the state board never updated its process to permit joint filings, even though rules for gubernatorial and lieutenant governor candidates direct the use of a specific, single form.
By: Brian Lee
Reaction to New York's enacted $268 billion budget from its legal community was mixed—while advocates celebrated the full appropriation authority granted to the state's lawyers' fund to support civil legal services, bar groups are skeptical of its inclusion of litigation and auto-insurance reforms.
By: Brian Lee
The New York Bivens Act will also allow citizens to sue federal employees in other contexts. Its original versions were sponsored by attorney lawmakers, Sen. Zellnor Myrie, and Assemblymember Gabriella Romero, Brooklyn and Albany Democrats, respectively.
By: Brian Lee
It is envisioned that the paralegals and social workers would provide services under state authorization and attorney supervision, operating like physician assistants in the medical field. "We should be a leader on this and not a follower," Ronald Minkoff, a partner at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC, told Law.com.
