A unanimous five-judge panel of the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division Fourth Department has turned down an ...

In New York, courts can award legal fees during and after divorce cases, including appeals, based on fairness and financial ...

Explore how New York’s appellate courts and Court of Appeals review cases, set precedents, and ensure justice across the state.

New York law provides creditors with a powerful tool to pursue collection on a written guaranty on an expedited track. CPLR 3213 allows a creditor ...

Following the release of a new rental vacancy survey in the city of Kingston, which showed a vacancy rate well above the 5 percent threshold required to reverse the housing emergency declaration, two ...

Sometimes a litigation emergency reaches our nation’s highest court. Ira Matetsky offers a practitioner’s guide to seeking a ...

A judge has dismissed a DOJ lawsuit that sought to invalidate a NY law that prohibits federal agents from arresting people ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in President Ulysses S. Grant’s ...

At the start of the Civil War, Parker’s offer to enlist was rejected outright by another New Yorker, Secretary of State William H. Seward, who – according to historians – told the Seneca leader the ...