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Post on Apr. 01, 2015
On January 16, 2015, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear four new cases on same-sex marriage. The specific questions that the Supreme Court will address are (1) whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires a......
Post on Apr. 01, 2015
Even before Governor Cuomo’s recent decisive action to ban hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in New York, the practice faced significant hurdles. The decision of the New York Court of Appeals in Wallach v. Town......
Post on Apr. 01, 2015
In a relatively quiet Supreme Court decision issued earlier this month, Justice Anthony Kennedy made a suggestion that might jolt e-commerce taxes in America and make it harder for small businesses and startups to......
Post on Apr. 01, 2015
Estate planning has traditionally been concerned with saving taxes, especially transfer taxes. Recent legislation has significantly reduced, if not eliminated, estate tax reduction as a concern for many families. Today,......
Post on Apr. 01, 2015
In Part I, we discussed why trusts were so popular in an era of high estate tax rates and relatively low exemptions by describing traditional planning using so-called “credit shelter” or “bypass” trusts to......
Post on Apr. 01, 2015
Earlier this month the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit - a federal appeals court that specializes in intellectual property matters - held that a “use-based” trademark must be canceled if the trademark owner......
Post on Apr. 01, 2015
Earlier this month Twitter updated its use policy to specifically ban revenge porn. Revenge porn is a dastardly practice where a person (typically a man, but not always) posts intimate photos of their former partner......
Post on Mar. 31, 2015
It has been a little over a month since New York’s Nurse Practitioner Modernization Act went into effect. The Act permits Nurse Practitioners with at least 3,600 hours of practice to dispense with the requirement of a......
Post on Mar. 31, 2015
New York’s Court of Appeals, the highest court in the state, ruled last week that knowingly infecting a partner with HIV is not a crime of sufficient “cruelty, brutality, or callousness” as to warrant felony......
Post on Mar. 31, 2015
New Yorkers may currently be focusing on their income taxes, however the upcoming year’s school taxes cannot be forgotten. While it may seem as though school taxes are a thing of the future, the reality is that the......
