Deborah Denno was quoted in a Mother Jones article about the state of Nebraska trying new drugs to execute death row inmates. Deborah Denno, a law professor and lethal injection expert at Fordham University in New York, explained an additional problem with the plan to the Associated Press, “When states start experimenting with a new drug combination, it heightens the likelihood there’s going to be some kind of error.” Read full article.
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Adjunct Professor Jerry Goldfeder was quoted in a Jewish Week article about people who run for office using names that differ from their legal names. Jerry H. Goldfeder, an election lawyer and an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law, agreed. “As long as a candidate uses a name that they are generally known as and it doesn’t cause confusion or is intended to defraud voters, nicknames are fine,” he said via email. Read full article.
Yazmine Nichols, a Stein Scholar at Fordham Law, wrote an op-ed for Blavity about President Trump’s use of his pardon power. The pardon power is derived from the Royal Prerogative of Mercy, which gave monarchs absolute power to pardon an individual convicted of a crime. Here in the United States, the pardon power has a unique history. It is outlined in the United States Constitution, Article II, Section 2, which gives the Commander-in-Chief power to “grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States” (though not in “cases of impeachment”). It has, of course, been used by a number…
Alumna Heidi Smith ’91 has been appointed a senior managing director, assistant general counsel by Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation. Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation (NASDAQ Global Select Market:PGC) and Peapack-Gladstone Bank are proud to announce the appointment of Heidi H. Smith, Esq. as Senior Managing Director, Assistant General Counsel. … A resident of Florham Park, New Jersey, Ms. Smith earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in in Political Science, Cum Laude, from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. She received a Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law and is licensed to practice law in Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania, in addition to having…
Alumna Brooke Cucinella ’06, assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, joins Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, one of the world’s leading international law firms. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced today that Brooke E. Cucinella, a federal securities fraud prosecutor, will join the Firm’s New York office in September as a Litigation Partner. Brooke will join the Firm from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where she has served since 2012 as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division and as a senior member of the Securities and…
Deborah Denno was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle article about the state of Nebraska trying new drugs to execute death row inmates. Nebraska state officials are preparing for their first execution in two decades and first-ever lethal injection with an untried combination of drugs that includes a powerful painkiller responsible for much of the nation’s opioid epidemic and a paralyzing drug that could conceal whether something has gone wrong. The execution planned for Aug. 14 at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln comes with significant risks for Nebraska prison officials, who haven’t carried out a death sentence since using…
Olivier Sylvain was quoted in a Huffington Post article about Section 203, a law that immunizes digital platforms from liability for third party–created content. Twitter cannot be held legally liable for anything that appears on its platform. Nor could Facebook or YouTube be held responsible for the harm done to Sandy Hook parents by conspiracy-monger Alex Jones, who was banned from those digital platforms on Monday. That’s because of a short provision in a 1996 law that gives online intermediaries immunity from liability for any third-party content posted to or hosted on their platforms. The provision, known as Section 230, has…
Alumnus Anthony Barone ’62 was featured in a Staten Island Advance article about his service to the Richmond County Bar Association. Anthony P. Barone, is the youngest of three children to parents Domenico and Cristina Barone, and the only sibling born in America. A Staten Island native, he grew up on Stanley Avenue in West Brighton, graduated Curtis High School, Fordham University and Fordham Law School, where he received his juris doctorate in 1962. The Barone’s have always been a hard working family who hailed from Vinchiaturo in the Italian Provence of Molise, in Southern Italy, a tiny farming town.…
Professor Tanya Hernández appears in a Legit News video where she talks about her recently published book Multiracials and Civil Rights. The book is available for purchase on the NYU Press website and Amazon. “[T]he very first thing that we need to do, of course, on that path to eradicating racism is to acknowledge that we do still have the problem.” Watch full video.
James Cohen was quoted in a New York Times article about the release of email records in the sexual assault case against Harvey Weinstein. The attorney for Harvey Weinstein accused the Manhattan district attorney’s office on Friday of withholding hundreds of emails from the grand jury that suggest the producer’s relationship with a woman accusing him of rape was consensual and lasted for years after the alleged attack. … James A. Cohen, a professor of law at Fordham University, said he doubted the emails would derail the case against Mr. Weinstein because, he said, jurors will understand that “people say…