Shirin Dhanani, dean’s fellow, and Dora Galacatos, executive director, of Fordham Law School Feerick Center for Social Justice, along with Shanna Tallarico co-authored a piece for the New York Law Journal on the widespread issues with improper enforcement of consumer credit actions. Since the 2000s, creditors—both original and debt buyers—have obtained hundreds of thousands of default judgments against people in the New York City Civil Court. Consumer protection and law enforcement actions have shed light on widespread problems with service of process, which reached epidemic proportions a decade ago and still persist to this day. Without proper notice of the…
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On April 8, Wall Street Journal reporter Sara Randazzo moderated a panel discussion entitled “Breaking the Glass Ceiling” with Jessica Carey ’03, partner at Paul Weiss; Deneen Donnley ’92, executive vice president, general counsel, and secretary at USAA; Dianne McKeever ’15, co-founder and chief investment officer at Ides Capital; and Molly Ryan ’15, associate at Latham & Watkins. Dean Matthew Diller opened the discussion by citing a 1988 lecture given by the late Judge Judith Kaye, in which she said, “In this society, that in a far shorter time has made a giant leap for mankind by putting people on…
Professor Jed Shugerman is quoted in an AP News article discussing revisions to a bill that would grant congressional committees access to state tax returns filed by President Donald Trump. Amendments filed over the weekend would revise the bill, so it applies to elected leaders and top public officials like judges, as well as companies in which they have significant ownership or control. The change, expected to be supported by the Democrat-led Senate and Assembly, could ease the way for passage of the overall bill as early as this week. Under earlier wording, the bill would have applied to any…
The New York Law Journal highlighted the acceptance of an honorary Doctor of Law Degree by Judge Pamela Chen, the commencement speaker for Fordham Law’s 112th commencement ceremony on May 20. Judge Pamela Chen spoke at the Fordham Law School commencement ceremony Monday, beginning her remarks with an apology to the graduates: she wasn’t going to pay their student loans like billionaire investor Robert Smith announced during commencement at Morehouse University in Atlanta. Read full article.
Professor Karen Greenberg was quoted in a New York Times article covering the release of John Walker Lindh from federal prison after serving 17 years for providing support to the Taliban. The case of Mr. Lindh, who converted from Catholicism to Islam at 16 and first left his California home at 17 to study Arabic in Yemen more than three years before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, has stirred questions and controversy from the start. His journey took him to Pakistan in 2000 and later to Afghanistan, where he spent time at a Qaeda training camp as a Taliban…
Visiting Professor Wojciech Sadurski wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post about being the target of civil defamation lawsuits by Poland’s ruling party. The ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) is suing me for civil defamation. State-run TV is also suing me for civil defamation as well as indicting me for criminal defamation. If I lose these cases, I could face huge civil and criminal fines and hefty legal costs. Court decisions could also potentially force me to take out expensive advertisements containing apologies. All of this vastly exceeds my means. I could also be compelled by the court to abstain…
Mike Petegorsky, author of the article Plea Bargaining in the Dark: The Duty to Disclose Exculpatory Brady Evidence During Plea Bargaining, published in Fordham Law Review was quoted in a Law360 article on an upcoming vote that will affect the right of defendants to see the prosecution’s exculpatory evidence before entering a guilty plea. At an upcoming conference, the justices will vote whether to review a Fifth Circuit ruling that the Supreme Court’s landmark Brady v. Maryland decision does not give defendants the right to see the prosecution’s exculpatory evidence before entering a guilty plea. The appeals court had used…
Professor Jennifer Gordon was quoted in a Politifact Texas article about the additional reasons for the dismissal of asylum cases outside of whether or not they are deemed valid. The truth is, about 20 to 30 percent of asylum requests have been granted annually since 2009, but experts said that does not mean that the remaining 70 to 80 percent of cases are invalid. There are many reasons why an asylum case might otherwise be dismissed or closed. … Jennifer Gordon, a law professor at Fordham Law School, said cases can be dismissed for a number of reasons unrelated to the…
Professor Jed Shugerman was quoted in an article in The Atlantic about a new wave of grassroots campaigns to raise public awareness about progressive judicial candidates. After watching these developments with growing dismay, Rick Krajewski, an organizer for a leftist political group called Reclaim Philadelphia, convened about 30 Philadelphia activists in January at the offices of a prisoner-advocacy organization to float a radical proposal. Many of them had been instrumental in getting Krasner elected. But clearly, electing a progressive prosecutor hadn’t been enough. This time, Krajewski wanted to persuade them to spearhead a rare grassroots campaign for the typically sleepy…
Professor Andrew Kent co-wrote a piece for Lawfare on Trump’s constitutional defense to obstruction of justice. There are two related issues here that can usefully be considered separately. The first, which has been debated extensively at Lawfare, is whether Mueller erred when he declined to apply a clear statement rule to the obstruction of justice statutes. Jack Goldsmith and others have argued that this rule should have been applied to Trump’s actions that involved uses of Article II powers. Applying this rule to the relevant obstruction statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c), they argue, would exempt Trump’s actions because the statute does not clearly state that it…