Appellate practice in New York State courts often contains minefields. Here is one, a procedural issue that came to my attention and seems to me to be neither well understood nor consistently handled.

This article explains how the concept of standing in New York real estate law is abused to deny homeowners relief and allows municipalities carte blanche to ignore the law, and is therefore, in urgent ...

Lawyers for state teachers unions and the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire faced off against the attorney general’s office last week over a new law banning certain concepts from being ...

A lawsuit filed in federal court Monday by a major teachers union, three individual teachers and two parents charges New Hampshire’s new statute, referred to by some as a "divisive concepts" law, ...

A basic principle in the law of wills is freedom of testation. Freedom of testation means you can leave your assets to anyone you choose, as long as your spouse receives a minimum amount required by ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — According to Nashville-based news station WSMV, the Tennessee Education Association and five Tennessee public school educators have filed a lawsuit against the state’s education ...

A teachers union filed a federal lawsuit Monday charging the state’s new “divisive concepts” law violates the constitutional rights of freedom of speech and due process as well as the state’s own anti ...