Aug 30, 2025

Selected items posted on blogs during the week ending August 29, 2025

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Elevating Constituent Services with Connected Experiences  Agencies' communications tools are often disjointed, contributing to fragment...
Aug 29, 2025

New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli posted local government and school audits on the Internet

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On August 28, 2025,  New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli announced the following local government and school audits were issued an...
Aug 28, 2025

Mandamus to compel performance is an extraordinary remedy that is available only in limited circumstances

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The extraordinary remedy of mandamus *  is available in limited circumstances only to compel the performance of a purely ministerial act whi...
Aug 27, 2025

Communications made by "individuals participating in a public function, such as judicial, legislative, or executive proceedings" are protected by an absolute privilege

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In an action to recover damages for defamation, * Plaintiff appealed an order of a Supreme Court which granted that branch of the motion su...
Aug 26, 2025

An applicant seeking disability retirement benefits bears the burden of demonstrating a permanent incapacity from performing the duties of the position

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In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR Article 78 to review a determination of the Board of Trustees of the New York City Employees' Retiremen...
Aug 25, 2025

Challenge to the revocation press credentials issued to an individual by a New York City agency sustained

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A petition filed by a New York City agency in an effort to revoke press credentials it had earlier issued to an individual [Respondent] was ...
Aug 23, 2025

Selected items posted on blogs during the week ending August 22, 2025

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A Government Leader’s Guide to Meeting Website Accessibility and Compliance Requirements  Meet DOJ mandates with this publications from  Civ...
Aug 22, 2025

State and local leaders are navigating significant change

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In this 30-minute webinar , Government Technology ’s Dustin Haisler and Joe Morris will provide an update on what these changes mean for pub...

Plaintiffs in this action alleged law enforcement personnel engaged in malicious prosecution, fabrication of evidence, and false arrest

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit's summary of its decision in this action,  Carruthers v Colton - 22-3232-cv,  ...
Aug 21, 2025

Employment opportunities with New York City's Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings

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The  New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings [ OATH] Trial Division is seeking recent law school graduates for appointmen...
Aug 20, 2025

Judicial officers act in a judicial capacity when they decide firearms license applications and have absolute immunity from suit in their individual capacities

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The Plaintiffs in this action, brought in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, are New York State residen...
Aug 19, 2025

The Real Risk Isn’t the Cloud—It’s Premises-Based Software -

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Cloud Computing for Lawyers  by Rochester, New York Attorney Nicole Black, was published by the American Bar Association. Click HERE  to re...