This post was authored by Ashlee Vega- Slattery, Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center The question in 20 Rewe Street, LTD v State of New York is whether a landowner was adequately compensated by the State for the partial taking of their Brooklyn property. The property, located in a manufacturing/industrial zone and totaling 39,900 […]
Mark Finchem, Republican candidate for Arizona secretary of state and Kari Lake, Arizona gubernatorial candidate. A federal judge on Friday ordered the attorneys for Kari Lake and Mark Finchem to pay Maricopa County $122,200 — money the county’s taxpayers spent to fend off a “frivolous” lawsuit brought before last year’s election. Turns out judges don’t […]
click to enlarge Shutterstock / CrackerClips Stock Media The Texas Senate is expected to begin Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial Sept. 5. Assclown Alert is a column of opinion, analysis and snark. Tony Buzbee, lead attorney for suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, has his way with words — as evidenced by his recent statement explaining […]
This post was authored by Tyler Doan, Esq. Petitioner owns real property on a short dead end roadway in the City of Ithaca abutting Summit Avenue. An adjacent property, that Summit Ave is on, has been owned by various entities during the relevant period. In 2017, after the then owner of the subject property blocked […]
Attorney General Merrick Garland is scheduled to testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee on September 20, a source familiar with the plans told CNN. The attorney general’s appearance before the panel will be for a standard oversight hearing. It’s routine for top-level executive branch officials to provide general testimony before congressional committees. But […]
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This post was authored by Gabriella Mickel, JD Candidate 2024, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. Defendant-landowner Sisters & Brothers Investment Group, LLP (SBIG) appealed an environmental-division enforcement order that prohibited them from using a property in the City of Burlington as a parking lot, requiring them to address site-improvement deficiencies as per […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton tests in front of the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, just a few days before a grand jury indicts him on three felony.Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty Images Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton could soon be out of a job after being accused of several crimes. The […]