Sui Generis--a New York law blog

The New York Legal Blog Round Up

It's a cold, cold Monday and time for the weekly round up of posts from my fellow New York law bloggers:

Coverage Counsel:

• Roy's Rent-A-Car

Juz the Fax:

• NYSDOL Approves Shared Work Program

New York Attorney Malpractice Blog:

• Legal Malpractice in a Labor Law Setting

New York Criminal Defense:

• Important Case on Requirement that Court Inform Defendant of Mandatory Consecutive Nature of Sentence

New York Injury Cases Blog:

• Leg Fracture Verdicts for Pain and Suffering in New York Injury Cases Upheld on Appeal for $1,100,000 and $1,500,000

Second Opinions:

• Collapse

The New York Legal Blog Round Up

It's time, once again, for the weekly round up of blog posts from my fellow New York law bloggers:

The Buffalo Lawyer:

• 4th Dep't addresses course of performance

Coverage Counsel:

• Oh, Won't You Stay...Just a Little Bit Longer...Please, Please, Please....Say You Will

New York Attorney Malpractice Blog:

• Judiciary Law 487 - The Oldest Statute in Law?

New York Civil Law:

• New York Court of Appeals Hears Oral Argument on Important No-Fault Issues

New York Criminal Defense:

• Fourth Department Splits on Sufficiency of Corroboration of Unsworn Testimony of Complainant
• Questions to Arrestee During Execution of Search Warrant Required Miranda Warnings
• Police Lacked Authority to Detain a Suspect While Conducting a Photo Array Elsewhere

New York Personal Injury Law Blog:

• Buffalo Plane Crash WILL Test New York's New Anti-Solicitation Rules (Updated x3)

Rochester Family Lawyer:

• Visitation and Older Children

The New York Legal Blog Round Up

It's Monday and time for the weekly round up of posts from my fellow New York legal bloggers:

Coverage Counsel:

• Spray Painting Operations and Work Product Exclusions Held Not to Negate Liabilty Coverage for Subrogation Suit 

New York Criminal Defense Blog:

• Name That Tune

New York Injury Cases Blog:

• Hip and Pelvis Injuries - Pain and Suffering Verdicts and Settlements Vary Widely in New York

New York Public Personnel Law Blog:

• Appealing an administrative decision as provided in a CBA does not toll the Statute of Limitations for filing an Article 78 action

Rochester Family Lawyer:

• Recent Amendment to Domestic Relations Law §240

The Law Office of Jeena R. Belil Blog:

• New New York Court Decision: Another Insurance Company Defense Tactic Denied!

CPLR Blog:

• CPLR R. 3212(b)

The New York Legal Blog Round Up

It's Monday and time for the weekly round up of interesting posts from my fellow New York law bloggers:

Coverage Counsel:

• NY PIP Intercompany Arbitration Rule Revisions -- Effective February 1, 2009

New York Attorney Malpractice Blog:

• What's Worse than Legal Malpractice? Arrest

New York Civil Law:

• Appellate Division, Third Department Applies Arons v. Jutkowitz and Grants New Trial

New York Injury Cases Blog:

• Humerus Fracture Pain and Suffering Verdicts and Settlements from $85,000 to $980,000

New York Personal Injury Law Blog: 

• New York's Anti-Solicitation Rule Allows For Ethics Laundering and Must Be Modified 

Simple Justice:

• Gillibrand Takes Manhattan

The Elliot Schissel New York Law Blog:

• NY Court’s Vacature of Rabbinical Arbitration Decision Ripe For Appeal

Wait a Second!:

• Bouquet of dead flowers is free speech, not illegal death threat

The New York Legal Blog Round Up

It's the first day of President Obama's presidency and time for the weekly round up of posts from my fellow New York law bloggers:

Coverage Counsel:

• Defensive Bear Hugging is Covered

New York Civil Law:

• New York Court of Appeals Grants Leave to Appeal on Scaffold Law Issuest

New York Personal Injury Law Blog:

• We Have A Winner! (Lawyer Soliciting Airline Victim Department)

New York Public Personnel Law:

• Legislature’s enactment of a statute directing the State Comptroller to audit charter schools Constitutional

No-Fault Paradise:

• New York's New Prejudice Rule -- One For No-Fault In The Future?

Rochester Family Lawyer:

• Basics of Collaborative Family Law

The Law Office of Jeena R. Belil Blog:

• NYC taxis may get digital cameras to deter and detect accidents

The New York Legal Blog Round Up

It's a cold, cold Monday and time for the weekly round up of posts from my fellow New York law bloggers:

Coverage Counsel:

• Court Rules that DME Provider's Illegal Billing Is Excused by No-Fault Insurer's Untimely Denial

New York Criminal Defense Blog:

• CJI Charge on Robbery in the First Degree Fails to Alert Jury of Requirement of Actual Possession

New York Federal Criminal Practice:

• EDNY Judge Finds Violation of Supervised Release in Sex Offender Case Where Defendant Refrained from Participating in Treatment in "Meaningful Manner"

New York Public Personnel Law:

• Unit member alleges gender discrimination by her union after it declined to file her gender discrimination grievance against her employer

No-Fault Paradise:

• First Decisions of the New Year

Wait a Second!:

• Prosecutor argues that overweight jurors favor defendants

The New York Legal Blog Round Up

It's the first Monday of 2009-and time for the weekly round up of interesting posts from my fellow New York law bloggers:

New York Attorney Malpractice Blog:

• Closely Held Corporations, Retainers and Legal Malpractice

New York Civil Law:

• New York Court of Appeals Will Address Whether Manufacturers Have a Continuing Duty to Retrofit or Recall Products

New York Court Watcher:

• New York Court of Appeals: This List, Past Lists, the Guv, the AG, and the Selection System (Part 4: The Guv's Selecting a Great Chief JUDGE)
• New York Court of Appeals: This List, Past Lists, the Guv, the AG, and the Selection System (Part 4: The Guv's Selection & Bar Ratings Games)

New York Personal Injury Law Blog:

• Chief Judge Kaye Keeps Door Open On Hillary's Senate Seat

Simple Justice:

• Just How Much Moral Turpitude is Too Much?

The New York Legal Blog Round Up

It's time for the post-holiday round up of interesting posts from my fellow New York law bloggers:

Coverage Counsel:

• A Serious Rant About the Permanent Consequential and Significant Limitation "Serious Injury" Threshold Categories

New York Attorney Malpractice Blog:

• Are Attorney Fees Recoverable in Legal Malpractice?

New York Civil Law:

• Top Five Surprises and Disappointments Impacting New York Law in 2008

New York Public Personnel Law:

• Commissioner of Education no longer has jurisdiction to determine the merits of disciplinary charges served on a tenured teacher

Rochester Family Lawyer:

• Opt-Out Agreements and the Scope of the Child Support Standards Act

Second Opinions:

• Aggravated Felony.

Simple Justice:

• An Easy $500 Mil

The New York Legal Blog Round Up

It's a cold, snowy Monday here in Rochester, and time for the weekly round up posts from my fellow New York blawgers:

New York Civil Law:

• New York Court of Appeals Recently Addresses Cigarette Liability

New York Public Personnel Law Blog:

• Police chief captain wins judgment in officers' suit over video camera installed in locker room

No-Fault Paradise:

• A Peculiar Argument (UPDATED)(x2)

Rochester Family Lawyer:

• Grandparents’ Right of Visitation

Simple Justice:

• The Particular Problem with Crimes Against Children

TheCPLRblog:

• CPLR R. 3211 No time limitation for 3211(e) motion for leave to replead (I don't get it either)

The New York Legal Blog Round Up

It's a dreary Monday here in Rochester and time for the weekly round up of posts from my fellow New York blawgers:

New York Civil Law:

• New York Court of Appeals Addresses Insurance Law sec. 3420(d) Within Context of Insured Non-Cooperation

New York Criminal Defense Blog:

• Second Circuit Recognizes Importance of Defendants' Right To Examine Prosecution Witness's Racism
• Rape Conviction Overturned for Lack of Specificity

New York Personal Injury Law Blog:

• Will Dreier Partners Be Liable for Stolen Money?

Rochester Family Lawyer:

• Divorce, Immigrant Spouse, Maintenance and Affidavit of Support

Second Opinions:

• No New Hearing.

The CPLR Blog:

• CPLR § 105(u) Using a verified pleading as an affidavit