NOTE: I was the trial attorney for this case People v. Badalamenti that I am discussing today. Everything I write about below comes only from the published opinion. The NY Court of Appeals, in a 4-3 split decision issued yesterday, ruled that a parent can secretly record a conversation between a minor child and anyone […]
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The life lessons from the Kim Kardashian-Kris Humphries sham-scam marriage are numerous. Our society has become interested in fake celebrities to the point of exhaustion; sex sells; American society is dumbing down in record time; and so on and so forth. But the most important lesson that society can take from this sorry episode in […]
This blog is all about strategy – how facts and evidence play out in the courtroom, the media and public opinion. Its also about how that strategy can be made effective. In today’s New York Law Journal, a decision by Justice Laura Drager of NY Supreme Court, shows that creativity can only go so far. […]
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Dad Loses Custody of Kids to Skype!
A Long Island father who had joint custody of his children will now only get to see them via Skype, because of a judge’s ruling allowing the mother of the children to relocate to Florida. It’s a sad tale with no winners, folks. The Bakers married in 2000 and divorced in 2008. Since then, both […]
So the NY State Senate was busy today. It approved Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighting in NY state and also approved No-fault Divorce. It would have been nice if they also agreed on our long-overdue budget but , Hey you can only ask for so much. From my point of view both of these were […]