DIMOND: A CALL TO JUDGES TO BETTER PROTECT CHILDREN

DIMOND: A CALL TO JUDGES TO BETTER PROTECT CHILDREN

BY DIANE DIMOND There is way too much killing in America. Murders, accidental shootings, executions, deadly domestic abuse, despondent people who kill themselves, and then there is filicide. Thatโ€™s when parents kill their own child. We would like to think this sort of heinous crime doesnโ€™t happen, but it happens way too often. A study […]

Legal Watch: Will Court Reform Ever Happen?

BY LEGAL LARRY For the past decade, high profile individuals have called for a reform of the entire court system in the State of New York. Everyone from the chief judge of the highest court to the governor has pitched a โ€œnew and improvedโ€ court system to streamline the process for litigants and save money. […]

New York to Put New Domestic Violence Laws in Place

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on Monday announced an agreement on legislation to strengthen New York’s domestic violence laws. The agreement includes a series of measures to protect victims of domestic violence and crack down on repeat offenders. Provisions in the bill include increasing the penalty […]