Invitation to New York law bloggers

I've decided to change the format of the Monday posts. My primary goal in rounding up posts has always been to call attention to other New York law blogs, while providing my readers with useful information. 

To that end, I've decided that instead of rounding up recent posts from New York law bloggers, I will be featuring a post from another New York law blog each Monday. 

If you would like me to consider featuring a recently published post from your blog, please drop me an email at nblack at nicoleblackesq dot com, and include a link to the post and a very brief description of your practice and blog for me to include with the post.

Since my blog is targeted toward New York attorneys, the post should focus on substantive New York legal issues. 

I'll include 75% of the content of the post with a link back to the original post so that my readers can read the remainder of it and a link to your blog.  I'll also include a link to the your website.  That way, you'll gain additional traffic, exposure and will be able to take advantage of my blog's established SEO  (search engine optimization).

If you have any questions, please let me know in the comments

Comments

[David Gottlieb]

I like the addition of the substantive guest post, but it would be a shame for you to stop doing the roundup. I check it every week, and more often than not, I find something interesting. Can you do both? Maybe instead of giving a list of ten posts, give three instead.

[Nicole Black]

Dave,

I hear ya and may consider your suggestion. But I'm on the fence.

I've been doing the NY legal blog round up for years now. It's very time consuming, and I've found that it provides me with little if any benefit.

I never get reciprocal links from other bloggers, and rarely if ever get a thank you, or even an acknowledgment for the traffic I send to other blogs.

In fact, the only thing that I do get is complaints about any number of issues, such as a typo or the fact that I haven't included a particular blog.

Honestly, it seems to be more trouble than it's worth.

If, however, my round ups provide more than just a few readers with a benefit, then that's enough for me to provide blog round ups on a slightly more limited scale.

So, if other really enjoy these round ups and will miss them, please let me know.

[John O'Sullivan]

Don't give up on the blog- it's well composed, informative and there's always a need to get the word out there!
I was just passing through and looking for good sites to raise an issue that greatly troubles me: judicial corruption.
Here's why I'm so bent out of shape.I am an advocate currently fighting to uphold the principles of due process in a most disturbing case concerning the rape, battery and near killing of a mother of one left permanently disabled with a broken neck.
Barbara Bracci was a long-serving and respected New York State corrections officer who claimed she was brutally attacked by her work supervisor, Captain William E. Peek. Bracci made tape recordings she claimed were of her remorseful attacker confessing to his crimes. She alleged the NY State Dept. of Corrections (DOC) took the tapes from her then conspired with a crooked judge to illegally withhold them from a New York court.
The case first appeared before the New York Division of Human Rights (SDHR) in 2007. Bracci wanted her original tapes played in open court. DOC defied court orders and refused to give the tapes back to her. Instead the state defense counsel gave them instead, to the presiding administrative law judge (ALJ) who inexplicably refused to let them be heard.
In a stunning piece of injustice the ALJ then took the tapes behind closed doors and weighed them secretly (ex parte, in camera) despite Bracci’s protests. Thereupon the ALJ ruled the tapes ‘unreliable’ and the case was dismissed. A perplexed Bracci protested and the matter went before the Appellate Division, Third Department earlier this year as an Article 78 special proceeding. Inexplicably, the tapes somehow became 'lost' and a tongue-tied (In)Human Rights declined to explain their actions in the higher court. So with Bracci having proof her tapes were now destroyed and with the opposing party declining to defend themselves, she duly filed for summary judgment.
However, out of left field the Appellate justices made the Article 78 special proceeding ‘disappear’ and simply upheld the lower court’s judgment dismissing Bracci’s claim on May 14, 2009.
Thus a New York higher court had not only condoned the secret weighing of evidence and then its destruction, it had unlawfully removed Bracci's status as a litigant in an Article 78 special proceeding.
Even a layperson looking at the court’s website under ‘Bracci-v-State Division of Human Rights’ (Case no: 506150) can see that nowhere does the term, ‘Article 78’ even appear. http://decisions.courts.state.ny.us/ad3/Decisions/2009/506150.pdf
Thus this raped, abused and permanently scarred woman was outrageously cheated of her most basic rights to due process. Now Bracci is filing with the Court of Appeals. We shall soon see if the very highest court in New York dares be as corrupt.
You see, I’m British and I grew up with a worldview of America as an honorable civilization. Like most people in the English-speaking world I was greatly influenced by Hollywood movies. I confess I have now learned that real 'American Justice' is quite different from what I saw in films. It appears your country has forgotten the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. Law is practiced very differently today and ‘American Justice’ is a fiction told in Hollywood.