Good health and exercise usually go hand-in-hand. But sometimes engaging in athletic activities can result in injury or even disability. Three recent court decisions highlight the law’s view of responsibility for risks from athletic activity. A high school student was struck in the cheek by a softball bat when a fellow student was [...]
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Fresh Air & Exercise
Posted in Uncategorized on October 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Careful! It Might Be Loaded!
Posted in Uncategorized on October 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Firearms have a long and illustrious history in this country. Two recent New York appellate court decisions add their own color to this history. In New York City, a former NYPD detective accidentally shot himself in the knee at a precinct station house. The detective had leaned back in a swivel chair at the [...]
When Grandma Goes to Court
Posted in Uncategorized on August 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Lawyers should never ask a Mississippi grandma a question if they aren’t prepared for the answer. In a trial, a Southern small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, a grandmotherly, elderly woman to the stand. He approached her and asked, “Mrs. Jones, do you know me?” She responded, “Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. [...]
It’s Another World in There
Posted in Uncategorized on August 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Life in prison is different from life on the outside, to say the least. Two recent court decisions touched on aspects of these differences. An inmate who was serving a sentence for robbery applied to have his name changed and asked that the court filing fees be waived because he couldn’t afford them. In considering [...]
How to Prevent Parental Abduction
Posted in Child Custody on August 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
PARENTAL ABDUCTION Several high profile cases in the past years have brought to light an alarming rise in the ever increasing problem of parental abduction. Oftentimes, a parent will threaten to remove the child from the country, and this chart, reproduced from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, a division of the U.S. [...]
Caught in a “Web” of Lies
Posted in Child Custody on June 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Despite what one might think, a custody case is not an open forum for one party to take the floor and use that time to explain to the judge what a terrible person the other side is. Instead of highlighting his or her own strengths as a parent, the party instead uses the entire [...]
I Was Riding My Bike When . . .
Posted in Uncategorized on May 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For most of us, riding a bicycle was an enjoyable part of our childhood. For some of us, even as we grew older, our bicycling continued as a means of exercise and transportation. And like just about every human activity, bicycling has its hazards which may have legal implications and consequences. For example, a man [...]
Till Death Do Us Part?
Posted in Uncategorized on April 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Two days after a man died in a Brooklyn hospital in November 2008, his wife signed an authorization for cremation of the body. The next day the hospital released the body to a funeral home and a day later the body was delivered to a cemetery and cremated. This unremarkable series of events became [...]
Charlie Sheen Loses Custody of His Twin Boys
Posted in Uncategorized on March 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Charlie Sheen soap opera continues to unfold. Last night, as the troubled actor was putting his two-year-old twin boys to bed, police showed up to remove the children from Sheen’s custody. “Wild Thing’s” soon-to-be ex-wife, Brook Mueller, convinced a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge to issue a temporary restraining order against her 45-year-old [...]
SOMETIMES THE LAW CAN MAKE YOU SICK!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Under current New York Law, persons with no biological or adoptive relationship with a child have no “standing” to assert visitation and/or custody rights to a child, regardless of the nature and duration of their relationship. These issues are arising more frequently and are especially troubling with respect to same-sex couples, where one partner, although [...]
