Court of Appeals Upholds Atlantic Yards Condemnation
January 28, 2010
Just a week apart, in late November and early December 2009, the Court of Appeals and then the Appellate Division, First Department, made major pronouncements on the authority of the courts to review determinations that ]property is subject to condemnation for allegedly public purposes.
Index
January 28, 2010
A Guide to everything in this issue, in an easy-to-read format.
NJ & CT News
January 28, 2010
Key rulings in neighboring states.
Absence of No-Fault Divorce Encourages Perjury, Judge Says
January 28, 2010
Calling New York's failure to institute no-fault divorce "inexcusable," a Manhattan judge has concluded that a husband should not be held liable for perjury for claiming he had not had sex with his wife for more than a year, during which time she gave birth.
Sex Versus Society
January 28, 2010
Late last year, the Appellate Division, Second Department, was confronted with the question of whether the judicially created concept of "constructive abandonment" could be expanded beyond its historic definition of sexual abandonment to include a persistent unrelenting pattern of social abandonment of a spouse. The court declined to expand the concept.
New York Courts Address Parental Alienation
January 28, 2010
Both custodial and non-custodial parents often worry that they are being bad-mouthed by their exes when the kids are in the other parent's care. When the question of parental alienation and its influence on custody matters becomes an issue for the courts, problems of proof may arise on both sides of the conflict.
Determining Whether Medical Causation Is Established
January 28, 2010
What does this standard of proof mean, and how can we gain a better understanding of statistical analysis help to determine when the standard for proving medical causation has, and has not, been met?
Worker Misclassification to Receive Heightened Scrutiny
January 28, 2010
Over the past year, federal and state governmental agencies have signaled their intent to more seriously investigate the misclassification of employees as independent contractors. Penalties for misclassification are severe and can put a company out of business.
Electronic Privacy in the Workplace
January 28, 2010
Electronic privacy in the workplace is already a tangled subject, with only a few sure footholds for employers. The Supreme Court's upcoming ruling in <i>Ontario v. Quon</i> will hopefully provide some unifying guidance in this developing area of the law.
