Benjamin Zipursky was quoted in a Fox News article regarding the $250-million lawsuit filed by a Covington Catholic High School student and his family against The Washington Post. An attorney in the $250-million lawsuit filed by a Covington Catholic High School student and his family against The Washington Post told Fox News the colossal damages being sought are “appropriate in this circumstance” – and hinted liberal comedian Bill Maher could soon be served. The comments from Todd McMurtry last week on “America’s Newsroom” come as law experts are calling the suit – filed on behalf of 16-year-old Nicholas Sandmann “by…
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Adjunct Professor Jerry H. Goldfeder was quoted in a Newsday article about Hempstead Supervisor Laura Gillen’s proposed new legislation blocking town board appointees from running for elected office. Jerry H. Goldfeder, a professor at Fordham University School of Law who specializes in election law, said he believed Gillen’s proposal would be legal. Goldfeder said Gillen’s proposal was “a creative solution on the road to actual special elections.” “It’s always preferable to have a special election than an appointment process when there is a vacancy,” he said. Read full article.
Tanya Hernández was quoted in a CNN article regarding actor Jussie Smollett allegedly staging a hate crime attack. There was a time when the black community gave unconditional support to black public figures who invoked racism, but Smollett’s case is already showing how that script is being rewritten. Blacks are becoming more savvy about the difference between “authentic blackness” and “strategic blackness,” says Tanya Hernandez, a professor at Fordham University’s School of Law in New York City. “The contemporary Trump world means we don’t have the luxury to be uncritical about who gets our communal love and support,” says Hernandez,…
Karen Greenberg was quoted in a Crime Report article about terrorism in the United States. As the nation experienced a record rise in the number of hate crimes last year, the question of whether they should be prosecuted as terrorism was the focus of a discussion at the 14th annual John Jay/Harry Frank Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America yesterday. Wingate was joined by Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School; Faiza Patel, director of Violence Prevention Programs at New York University’s Brenner Center for Justice; and George Selim, senior vice president of programs…
Andrew Kent was quoted in a Washington Post article about special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation. It’s now being widely reported that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is set to wrap up his investigation and deliver a report to Attorney General William Barr as soon as next week. Which has raised a big question: How much will Barr disclose about Mueller’s findings to Congress? The emerging “savvy” consensus is that we shouldn’t expect too much. As The Post reports here and here, Justice Department regulations don’t require maximal disclosure, and Barr has been noncommittal, citing (in The Post’s words)…
Bruce Green was quoted in a USA Today article about Harvard law professor Ronald Sullivan Jr.’s decision to represent Harvey Weinstein in his sexual assault case. Harvard law professor Ronald Sullivan Jr. has built a sparkling resume of high-profile cases with clients like Michael Brown and Aaron Hernandez that’s earned him the reputation as a top mind in criminal law nationally. But his move in January to join the legal defense team of Hollywood media mogul Harvey Weinstein, whose alleged sexual misconduct ignited the #MeToo movement, has caused a stir on the Ivy League campus. … Since Sullivan emerged as…
Professor Jennifer Gordon wrote an op-ed in NewsDeeply about the Ethiopia Jobs Compact. THE Ethiopia Jobs Compact is about to come into its own. Funded by the U.K., the European Investment Bank and the World Bank, it initially promised to put 30,000 of the country’s Eritrean, Somali, Sudanese and South Sudanese refugees in new jobs in export manufacturing zones, while creating another 70,000 such positions for Ethiopians. Announced in 2016, it was overshadowed at the time by the much larger Jordan Compact, through which the World Bank, the European Union and various European governments agreed with the Jordanian government to…
Adjunct Professor Joel Cohen wrote an op-ed in The Hill about the relationship of the President with his Attorney General. Now that William H. Barr is confirmed as attorney general, how free will President Trump feel to confide in him — meaning, to expect attorney-client-like confidentiality — about challenging aspects of the investigations by special counsel Robert Mueller and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York? When John F. Kennedy was president and his brother was attorney general, few doubted that Bobby Kennedy would take his brother’s secrets to the grave. JFK didn’t have to rely…
Jed Shugerman was quoted in a Vox article about President Trump’s decision to declare a national emergency at the border. President Donald Trump just declared a national emergency in order to bypass Congress and fund his wall on the southern border. The president has hinted for several weeks that this option was on the table, but it was never clear if he would actually go through with it, in part because it sets a dangerous precedent and will almost certainly be challenged in the courts. But the president failed to strike a deal with Democrats that would give him the…
A review of Toni Jaeger-Fine’s new book, Becoming A Lawyer, was published in Law.com. Jaeger-Fine is the assistant dean for international and non-J.D. programs at Fordham Law. In the book, Becoming A Lawyer, Toni Jaeger-Fine presents a detailed, well-organized handbook on how to practice law. Presently an assistant dean at Fordham Law School, Jaeger-Fine has broad experience practicing law; previously, she worked in private practice in a large D.C. law firm. I expected this book would be a handbook for young lawyers entering a profession they learned little about during law school. Instead, I found an in-depth guide, useful to…