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December 28, 2011ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
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December 28, 2011ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |A Family Court order that a teenage sexual abuse victim undergo a highly intrusive "forensic medical examination" violated her Fourth Amendment rights, a Brooklyn appellate court has ruled.
December 28, 2011Jeff StoreyCognitive sets and assumptions, however formed, create a kind of lens through which data that is gathered on a family is processed and interpreted. And these biases create the very real potential for errors to be made at the stage where the court is being given an evaluator's "bottom line" about a particular child's needs or a certain parent's skills and capacities.
December 28, 2011Jeffrey P. WittmannIn two reported cases addressing the enforceability of the "automatic orders," the results were seemingly contradictory as to the remedy for "violation" of these "orders.
December 28, 2011Lee RosenbergA recent case is discussed.
December 28, 2011ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |New York courts continue to hold that caveat emptor ' let the buyer beware ' represents the general rule applicable to real property transactions. Two recent appellate cases, however, illustrate continuing uncertainty about the remaining scope of the caveat emptor doctrine, while Real Property Law sections 462 and 465 limit the doctrine's significance in many residential transactions.
December 28, 2011Stewart E. Sterk