Results tagged “circuitcourt”

The NY Times is reporting that the Nets won't be playing in Brooklyn for the 2009-2010 season because the arena won't be finished until 2010. The Times attributes the delay to legal challenges. The most publicized lawsuit is the federal case brought by 13 property owners and tenants. The suit alleges that the taking of their property via eminent domain was unconstitutional. In June, a US District Court judge dismissed the case, finding that...

The Supreme Court essentially upheld an Appeals Court ruling that said New York City must pay the private education of disabled students. The twist is that the students and their parents don't even need to try to see if the public school programs are adequate for them.

After years of legal wrangling, the Appellate Court has backed the College of Staten Island and says that the CUNY school can deny official status to fraternity Chi Iota. But the battle may not be over, as the brothers want to fight this at the Supreme Court.

"I am extremely proud of the EPA's work in response to the terrorist attacks on our nation on Sept. 11, 2001. The men and women of the EPA were -- and are -- dedicated to protecting the health of the American public and I will be pleased to answer any questions the subcommittee might have about their efforts during my tenure as director of the agency," Whitman wrote Nadler.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a bomb threat at New York Law School on Worth St. in Manhattan, shots fired on New York Ave. in Brooklyn, and a person in the river off of Manhattan's 59th St. and 12th Ave.
• The former head of the NYPD's forensic crime lab, Deputy Chief Denis McCarthy, was transferred to a patrol division by Chief Ray Kelly after allegations of falsified lab reports were substantiated by investigators.
• Debra Ann Ridgeley, the woman arrested in Panama for the killing of Staten Island resident Toni Grossi Abrams, is claiming innocence. Her lawyer says that it was Grossi Abrams who attacked her with a knife and that a male Colombian friend intervened to protect her. She also is maintaining that whatever happened to Grossi Abrams, it happened while she was someplace else tending to her wounds.
• A 57-year-old man accused a younger man of stealing his money off the counter of a midtown liquore store yesterday. After the store's manager told the two men to take their argument outside, the older man picked up a piece of metal from the sidewalk, prompting the other to produce a weapon and stab him in the chest before running away.
• A building at the NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston was evacuated today after a gunman was reported in the building.
• Kevin Walsh of forgotten NY investigates the origins of a large anchor in Park Slope and finds a retired seaman.
• A ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals establishes that government officials can't be held constitutionally liable for statements made in regards to the safety or quality of air following the 9/11 attacks. This could put an end to a number of lawsuits related to post-9/11 air quality and the EPA's assurances of safety.
• Firefighters got to try out their new diamond-tipped glass-cutting power saw when rescuing two window washers stuck outside the 37th floor of a Turtle Bay building.
• Hitting a pedestrian in a grocery store parking lot is one thing; ramming into cop cars, however is highly discouraged in Long Island's Nassau County.
• New York named the daffodil the city's official flower. Over three million bulbs were planted across the city's five boroughs as part of the Daffodil Project to memorialize victims of the 9/11 attacks.

When we hear about the city's scuffles with foreign countries, it usually involves diplomats and scofflaw parking. Well, this time, the scuffle does involve diplomats, but now the city will be arguing why foreign countries should pay real estate taxes in front of the Supreme Court. The NY Sun sheds light on the city's case versus the Department of Justice: The city wants India and Mongolia to pay millions in real estate taxes because their missions are not "used exclusively for diplomatic purposes or to house top diplomats" - lower level employees live there.

While divorce these days is all too common, divorce papers filed by Jennifer Swindal on Tuesday in Hillsborough County Circuit Court involve a less than common family. Jennifer Swindal, the daughter of Yankees principal owner George Steinbrenner, cited irreconcilable differences when she filed for divorce from Steve Swindal after 23 years of marriage. Is the reason truly irreconcilable differences, or are Steve Swindal's February 15th arrest for driving under the influence and The Boss' incessant meddling the real reasons for the divorce? Steve Swindal has pleaded not guilty in his D.U.I. case.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling that allows people between 18 and 21 years to buy spray paint and broad-tipped markers. Yes, the city has been trying to block the sale of things that might lead to graffiti for over the year, but the law was so nutty that District Judge George Daniels stopped the city's ban until the issue could be further looked into.

You can see some of Forsythe's Barbie art here. Of course, the most imaginative recent use of Barbie has been in a "safe for work" version of the Paris Hilton sex tape – that is, if naked Barbies are safe for work – from Millionaire Playboy.

"The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last Tuesday that Web loggers, website operators and e-mail list editors can't be held responsible for libel for information they republish, extending crucial First Amendment protections to do-it-yourself online publishers...