Ben Bedell
New York Law Journal
New York, NY, United States
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Board Authorized to Ban Cameras From 'Forum,' Judge Rules
A Nassau County judge has refused to enjoin a local school board and superintendent from barring news cameras from a meeting that was open to the public. → Read More
Panel Finds Evidence in Gun Case 'Lacked Probative Value'
A Manhattan appeals court reversed the gun possession convictions of two Harlem men Tuesday, saying the trial court had improperly admitted photos of the defendants holding guns and a Facebook message boasting about gun incidents. → Read More
Landlord Ordered to Pay Costs of Litigation After 'Bad Faith'
A federal judge has held that a Bronx landlord 'perpetrated a fraud on the court' in claiming a cell phone company's roof antenna had damaged his rental buil... → Read More
Attorney Resigns After Admitting Affair With Client
The First Department has accepted the resignation of an attorney who acknowledged he had "engaged in one isolated and consensual improper personal encounter" with a woman he was representing in a matrimonial proceeding. → Read More
Shareholder Suit Proceeds Against Winged Foot Golf Club
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a suit against the famed Winged Foot Golf Club alleging fraudulent conduct in its treatment of shareholders of a for-profit holding company that owns the 280-acre Westchester property. → Read More
Workers' Comp Amendment Found Unconstitutional
The First Department nullified a 2013 amendment to New York Workers' Compensation Law that was challenged by the insurance industry because it retroactively imposed an additional $62 million in liabilities under the state-mandated coverage. → Read More
Split Panel Upholds $1M Jury Verdict in Fatal City Bus Accident
A three-justice majority of the First Department panel said the plaintiffs had produced sufficient evidence for a jury to find negligence, even though neithe... → Read More
Jury Award Against Officers for Excessive Force Is Reinstated
An appeals court reinstated $1.8 million of a $4 million jury verdict against New York City and two of its police officers that had been cut to $350,000 by a... → Read More
Split Panel Backs Tenancy for Disabled Woman's Son
The New York City Housing Authority created 'an unacceptable Catch-22' when it told a son who moved in to care for his disabled mother that he could not rema... → Read More
Lynch Addresses Mental Illness, Incarceration at Forum
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch told several hundred people gathered at Columbia University Thursday that 'some of our nation's largest mental health fac... → Read More
Panel Rejects Restrictive View of Diversion Statute by Vance
A Manhattan appeals court unanimously rejected a claim that prosecutors have the power to limit certain kinds of defendants to whom judges can grant drug tre... → Read More
Kesha's Assault, Bias Claims Against Manager Dismissed
Justice Shirley Werner Kornreich said Kesha's claims of 'insults about her value as an artist, her looks, and her weight are insufficient to constitute extre... → Read More
Appellate Court Declines to Revive Two RMBS Cases
The First Department held that a plaintiff's failure to make a pre-suit demand of JPMorgan's board of directors doomed a derivative action brought by a pensi... → Read More
Suit Over Developer's Failure to Give Notice Ruled Time Barred
The First Department said developers of a 21-story building should have given their 10-story neighbor notice that the structure would result in the neighbors... → Read More
Panel Upholds $1.6 Million Judgment Against TV Host
A $1.6 million judgment against CNBC talk show host Donny Deutsch has been affirmed by the Appellate Division, First Department. → Read More
After Felony Conviction, Silver Is Disbarred
Sheldon Silver's request that his disbarment proceeding be held in abeyance while he appeals his federal corruption conviction was rejected Tuesday by a Manh... → Read More
Split Panel Slashes Sanctions in Bitter Visitation Dispute
The First Department panel was unanimous that Michael Gottlieb had brought a frivolous special proceeding to block his wife from obtaining a get—a Jewi... → Read More
Ex-Partner's $5 Million Award From Former Firm Is Upheld
A $5 million arbitration award to a partner denied his 40 percent share of the partnership's value when his former law firm dissolved and reformed without hi... → Read More
Panel Dismisses Minority Investor's Suit Against Lehman Entity
A First Department panel found the plaintiff, which lost its $20 million investment, 'identifies no alternative transactions, let alone one that would have a... → Read More
Panel Dismisses Investor's Suit Against Lehman
A First Department panel found the plaintiff, a minority investor which lost its $20 million investment, 'identifies no alternative transactions, let alone o... → Read More