Adjunct Professor Joel Cohen wrote an op-ed for The New York Law Journal about how judges should be approaching testimony they believe to be false. Perhaps Justice Felix Frankfurter said it best in Watts v. Indiana, 338 U.S. 49, 52 (1949), suppressing in that case a confession coerced by psychological rather than physical means—“There comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men [and women].” Theretofore, the Supreme Court had astonishingly chosen to disregard legal attacks on confessions that had been contested by defendants in the state courts, as long as…
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Adjunct professor and partner at Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass, Barry Temkin, co-authored an article with Melissa Tarentino, vice president of legal affairs at Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services, that was published in The New York Law Journal. It unpacks the compliance obligations of a package of rules adopted by the SEC in June designed to increase the transparency of investor, investment advisor, and broker-dealer relationships. On June 5, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to adopt a package of rules and interpretations “designed to enhance the quality and transparency of retail investors’ relationships with investment advisers and broker-dealers.”…
The Daily Republic reported that Elena D’Agustino ’96 has been promoted to Solano County public defender. Solano County is located in northern California with a population of around 414,000. FAIRFIELD — Seven months after being appointed interim public defender, and wearing two duty hats since, it was announced Tuesday that Elena D’Agustino has been promoted to Solano County public defender. The announcement came after the closed session of the Board of Supervisors. D’Agustino said she was “honored and humbled” by the board’s decision, and said having the matter settled will allow the Public Defender’s office to better serve the clients…
Boston University Law Professor and Fordham Law alumna Danielle Citron ’94 has been named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow. This prestigious recognition, also known as the “genius” grant, will come with $625,000 to further her research on privacy rights and hate crimes in cyberspace. Boston University’s Danielle Citron, whose pioneering and policy-shaping work in countering hate crimes, revenge porn, and other cyberspace abuses has made her one of the nation’s leading privacy and constitutional law scholars, has been named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow. Citron, a School of Law professor of law, and the other new fellows, whose names were announced Wednesday…
The Financial Advisor spoke to Adjunct Professor George Friedman for his take on the newly-passed House bill to prohibit mandatory pre-dispute arbitration agreements. “As written, the FAIR Act disregards the benefits of resolving disputes through arbitration, including lower costs, faster resolution, and reduced burden on the judiciary. By limiting contractual options, this bill would hurt businesses and the very consumers and employees it seeks to protect,” the White House added. The House bill would end pre-dispute arbitration agreements for consumer, employment, antitrust or civil rights claims and includes language covering securities or other investments. If ratified, the legislation would negate…
Based on her article, How Should Organizations Support Trainees in the Face of Patient Bias?, published in the AMA Journal of Ethics®, Professor Kimani Paul-Emile provides her recommendations on how to assist colleagues during a real-time discrimination incident and to address discrimination organization-wide. “Despite the startling statistics regarding patients’ treatment of trainees, data and overwhelming anecdotal evidence show that organizations are not adequately supporting their trainees in dealing with these abusive patient encounters. Indeed, 50% of surveyed residents who experienced or witnessed patient discrimination didn’t know how to respond, while 25% believed that nothing would be done if hospital leadership were…
Professor Andrew Kent spoke to Bloomberg’s June Grasso about the legal process when a whistleblower comes forward with an anonymous complaint. He also outlines what Congress has the authority to do regarding the complaint that President Trump pressed Ukraine’s president to investigate Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden. “.. that inspector general is supposed to decide whether the complaint is credible or not, and that happened, the inspector general determined it to be credible. Then the inspector general is supposed to forward it to the Director of National Intelligence and he did that. At that point it’s supposed to be transmitted…
A local news publication, The Fulton Sun, featured a piece on Derick Dailey ’17, assistant attorney of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware, and a lecture he recently delivered on his struggle to reconcile his faith and injustice. Dailey spoke about instances where his faith has come into play in his mind when looking at difficult legal situations. One example he shared was when his home state of Arkansas planned to execute eight inmates in 11 days in April 2017. “(The inmate Ledell Lee’s final request before execution) was to receive communion as his last meal,” he…
The Garden Island, a newspaper published in the Hawaiian island of Kauai, profiled retired U.S. District Court Judge Alfred Laureta ’53. Now 95, Laureta shares the lessons of his life from growing up in a close-knit Filipino community to his exemplary career in law. Before he attended one of the best universities in the country or served on the governor’s cabinet or worked on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, before he was appointed by the president of the United States to serve as a federal judge on a tiny island in the South Pacific, even before he…
The Council on Legal Education Opportunity Inc. has announced that Nitza Milagros Escalera, assistant dean of student affairs at Fordham Law, has been selected as one of ten recipients of its CLEO EDGE awards. The awards will be presented at a Nov. 7 ceremony in Washington, D.C. The legal department of Freddie Mac, along with Deval Patrick, the former general counsel of the Coca-Cola Co. who went on to become governor of Massachusetts, is being recognized for their efforts toward diversity and equality in the law. … In the diversity category, the recipients include Justin Cruz, assistant dean of admission…