Appellate Division Requests Amicus Briefs in Congressional Map Challenge; Mount Pleasant VRA Case Settled; State Budget Proposals Include Election Funding; Funding for Census 2030 Adances in Albany; ...

Early tort law was heavily weighted towards injuries that involved train accidents. Here in the New York City metropolitan region with its huge dependence on rail transport, the older typical ...

New York State’s redistricting process following the 2020 Census failed to live up to the reforms envisioned by voters who endorsed the 2014 constitutional changes. Instead, the redistricting process ...

United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), joined by 17 Republican colleagues, reintroduced the Equal Representation Act legislation to ensure that only legal citizens are factored into the count for ...

Trees under the common law were considered natural conditions with the result that possessors of land were not liable for injuries caused trees. Professor William Prosser wrote in the first edition of ...

By Stephen Louis When Zohran Mamdani ran for Mayor, one of his leading proposals was the creation of a new Department of Community Safety. His campaign website includes a report setting forth the two ...

This month the Mayor releases his Preliminary Budget, marking the start of the City’s annual budget process for the 2026 fiscal year that begins July 1, 2025. The City Charter, in Chapter 10, requires ...

With congressional primary campaign petitioning set to get underway, New York’s congressional map remains uncertain. Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis’ request for the U.S. Supreme Court to “stay” the ...

Christopher Columbus is in trouble. Political pressure to remove Columbus monuments most recently dates from 1992 during the preparations for the 500 th anniversary of Columbus’s first voyage. The ...

How small is too small when it comes to trip hazards on New York City sidewalks? New York courts, grappling with this issue for over 125 years, have declined to advance a standard based solely on the ...

The new year. A time for celebrations, for resolutions – and in Albany, for the launch of the State budget process. Far more than in most states, a year’s worth of policy making will get crammed into ...

On the same day last month that heavily armed federal agents gathered for a widely-publicized immigration raid in the Bronx, the New York City Hospitality Alliance sent out an email with the subject ...