March 8, 2012 By GLENN COLLINS It was not as if the New York health department had threatened the city’s 24,000 restaurateurs with posting a scarlet letter — or even a skull and crossbones — in their windows. But dozens of restaurant operators descended on City Hall on Wednesday to vent their ire at the […]

By: Cynthia Devasia, Esq. and Andreas Koutsoudakis, Esq. Imagine your firm is representing a defendant in a § 1983 civil rights case. At the inception, the district judge assigned to the case seeks the parties’ consent to disposition of the case by a magistrate judge. This often occurs at the first Rule 16 conference before […]

Baby, It’s Cold Inside Monday, September 26, 2011 By MARK TOOR The Correction Officers Benevolent Association argued that for years the Department of Correction has been giving the cold shoulder to officers’ complaints about winter temperatures as low as 27 degrees inside the Intake Center in the Bronx Hall of Justice. Arbitrator Haydeé Rosario gave […]

By Michael Wilson | July 22, 2011 The police officer, recalling that night, sounds like an actor in a fast-food commercial: “At some point, something told me, grab a Big Mac.” And so on a freezing January night in 2005, the officer, John Florio, then 39, stopped at the drive-through window of a McDonald’s in […]

By Mark Toor | July 11, 2011 The Westchester County Department of Correction is resisting arbitration awards and forcing the county Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association into court to enforce them, according to an attorney for the union.“In Westchester County, the m.o. is for the department to just not honor any arbitration agreement,” the attorney, Mercedes Maldonado […]

Westchester Wrongly Denied CO Time Off, Arbitrator Decides By Mark Toor June 7, 2011 – The Westchester County Department of Correction must come up with a better system for ensuring that Correction Officers can take their time off, an arbitrator ruled last month. The May 12 ruling by Dennis J. Campagna came in the case […]

By Mark Toor June 7, 2011 – The Westchester County Department of Correction must come up with a better system for ensuring that Correction Officers can take their time off, an arbitrator ruled last month. The May 12 ruling by Dennis J. Campagna came in the case of Patrick Garrett, a member of the Westchester […]

Manhattan mom sues preschool for damaging 4y/o daughter’s Ivy League Chance By Jose Martinez March 15, 2011 – A Manhattan mom is suing a pricey preschool for dumping her “very smart” 4-year-old with tykes half her age and boring her with lessons about shapes and colors. In court papers, Nicole Imprescia suggests York Avenue Preschool […]

By Jose Martinez March 15, 2011 – A Manhattan mom is suing a pricey preschool for dumping her “very smart” 4-year-old with tykes half her age and boring her with lessons about shapes and colors. In court papers, Nicole Imprescia suggests York Avenue Preschool jeopardized little Lucia’s chances of getting into an elite private school […]