It’s time for another Court of Appeals news roundup. Once again, we’ve relied on our own research to gather the sources this week but would welcome any suggestions that you might have. Please email us any ideas (twentyeagle@twentyeagle.com).
Several outlets reported on the Court of Appeals’ denial of leave to appeal in Matter of Committee for Environmentally Sound Redevelopment v. Amsterdam Avenue Redevelopment Associates, a case about whether regulations required that 200 Amsterdam, a luxury high-rise on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, be capped at 52 stories. Coverage comes from New York YIMBY, the New York Law Journal, and the Commercial Observer.
In a piece picked up by multiple outlets, the Associated Press noted that the Court of Appeals would hear Matter of TCR Broadcasting v. WN Partner, a “long-running dispute between the Baltimore Orioles and the Washington Nationals over television rights fees.”
Recently retired Court of Appeals Judge Leslie E. Stein will be the new director of Albany Law School’s Government Law Center. Coverage comes from Newswire and the New York Law Journal.
Thomas R. Newman and Steven J. Ahmuty, Jr., in a piece published in the New York Law Journal and elsewhere, discuss reargument motions in the Court of Appeals, pointing out that the Court almost never grants reargument.
At the NYSAppeals blog, Rob Rosborough covers the Court’s “rare” decision to decline a certified question from a federal appeals court in Ferreiras Veloz v. Garland.
In an article in the New York Law Journal, William G. Passanante discusses J.P. Morgan Securities v. Vigilant Insurance Co., in which the Court will decide whether SEC-imposed disgorgement qualifies as an insurable loss.
The Rome Sentinel reports that the Court of Appeals denied Kaitlyn Conley leave to appeal her conviction for fatally poisoning her boss.
In the New York Law Journal, Andrew Denney reports that Dennis Quirk, the New York Court Officers Association president who doxxed Chief Judge DiFiore in response to the Covid-vaccine mandate for court employees, has retired as a court officer.
Posted on 2021-09-24.