Brooklyn Democrats Change Rules Before New Leader is Elected; Democrats ask State Elections Board to Investigate Trump Event; Even Year Voting Law Challenged as Voting Rights Violation; State Board of ...

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 ...

What’s Next For New York’s Mid-Decade Redistricting? The state legislature is expected to approve one or more constitutional amendments to permit the legislature to draw a new congressional map before ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former Mayor Eric Adams appointed the so-called “zombie” NYC Charter Revision Commission on his final day in office, with its main agenda item focused on creating open primaries for city elections. On ...

New York City has a long and rich history of scandal and corruption. Here are three examples from favorite books that visit past scandals in complete and revealing detail. The James Marcus Scandal: ...

The Assembly and Senate approved legislation moving forward a constitutional amendment to reform New York’s redistricting process last week (S.10637/A.11553). If approved again by the new legislature ...

NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission heard a proposal to substantially renovate and convert Angel Guardian Home, an individual landmark, into a Yeshiva. On August 2, 2022, the NYC Landmarks ...

The landmarked building featured many late Gothic details. On December 10, 2019, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to rescind the individual landmark designation of a vacant lot, located at ...

When municipalities are sued in tort, two of the most powerful bars to recovery are the public duty principle and the governmental function immunity defense. When these two principles are applicable, ...