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Legislative Update - 2021 State Budget
On April 3, 2021, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the State Budget for Fiscal Year 2021 (the “Budget”).[1] The Budget includes two significant amendments to the provisions of the Real Property Tax Law (“RPTL”) governing taxation of solar, wind, or other renewable energy systems (“Energy Systems”), which primarily impact: (1) the substance of a developer’s pre-construction notice to taxing jurisdictions; (2) the taxing jurisdiction’s [...]
Read More ›Whiteman Osterman & Hanna Successfully Obtains Reversal of a Trial Court Order that had Halted Review of a Costco Wholesale Facility in Guilderland
- Category: Featured Litigation and Appeals
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna attorneys Robert Sweeney, Tom Shepardson, Rob Rosborough and Gabriella Levine, recently obtained a favorable decision from the Appellate Division, Third Department, which reversed in its entirety a trial court order that had annulled a site plan approval for a mixed use residential project and the State Environmental Quality Review Act review of a proposed Costco Wholesale facility in the Town of Guilderland adjacent to Crossgates Mall.In a comprehensive 18-page [...]
Read More ›Bruce J. Wagner Teaches Latest Matrimonial Law Developments to Statewide Audiences of Lawyers and Judges
- Category: Featured Matrimonial and Family Law
Bruce J. Wagner, Chair of our Matrimonial & Family Law Department, presented a two-hour program entitled “Matrimonial & Family Law Update 2021” for the New York State Bar Association on May 20, 2021. He continued his speaking engagements on June 10, 2021 by presenting his 16th consecutive “Matrimonial Update” for the Broome County Bar Association’s Annual Legal Update Program. Both well-received programs were broadcast live to a statewide [...]
Read More ›Whiteman Osterman & Hanna Successfully Represents Towns in Long Island in an Amicus Brief with the Third Department To Protect the Long Island Aquifer
- Category: Featured
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna co-managing partner John J. Henry and associate Gabriella R. Levine, members of the Firm’s litigation and appeals practice, and partner and general counsel Daniel A. Ruzow, recently obtained a favorable decision from the Appellate Division, Third Department, upholding the zoning power of municipalities in Long Island to regulate and prohibit changes and expansions to sand and gravel mines in counties that draw their drinking water from Long Island’s sole [...]
Read More ›Bruce J. Wagner as Opening Speaker for “A New Divorce is Coming”
- Category: Featured Matrimonial and Family Law
Bruce J. Wagner, Chair of our Matrimonial & Family Law Department, was the opening speaker for “A New Divorce is Coming” sponsored by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) New York Chapter on May 7, 2021. Mr. Wagner presented “Matrimonial Update” at the outset of this well-received program, which was broadcast live to a statewide audience of attorneys and matrimonial and family court judges. He is a past president of the AAML NY Chapter. In [...]
Read More ›Whiteman Osterman & Hanna recently represented Eiber Translations, a provider of language interpretation and translation services to interpreters and translators, in challenging the New York State Commissioner of Labor’s determination to hold it liable for additional unemployment insurance contributions. Eiber was originally assessed for additional unemployment contributions due to compensation it had paid to the interpreters, after the New York State Department of Labor determined [...]
Read More ›Court Rejects Challenge to Resort’s Approvals
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna recently represented Crossroads Ventures in the successful defense of a challenge to Department of Environmental Conservation approvals, obtained after a lengthy administrative review process, to develop a large ski and golf resort adjacent to Belleayre Mountain in the Catskills. The challenge was brought by the Catskill Heritage Alliance and several adjacent landowners. The Court rejected the challengers’ claims that the Department of Environmental [...]
Read More ›Court Upholds SEQRA Review and Annexation
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna successfully represented the Village of Kiryas Joel, NY before the Environmental Claims Part of the Orange County Supreme Court obtaining a decision upholding the Village’s SEQRA review and Annexation of 164 acres to the Village from the Town of Monroe in the face of legal challenges commenced by a large group of neighboring municipalities and area citizens’ groups. The Village was represented by Michael G. Sterthous, a partner in the Firm’s land [...]
Read More ›New York’s “first in the nation” financial services cybersecurity rules have been finalized and will go into effect on March 1, 2017. The final regulations cover every business regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services (“DFS”), including but not limited to banks, credit unions, insurers, and mortgage companies. Covered entities have until August 28, 2017 to comply, although longer compliance dates are applicable to some specific provisions. [...]
Read More ›Court of Appeals Will Hear Lindsay Lohan's and Mob Wives' Star's Appeals of Dismissal of Right to Privacy Suit Against Creator of Grand Theft Auto V
- Posted By: Robert Rosborough
- Category: Case Studies
Grand Theft Auto V is the latest in a popular series of the video games where the player controls one of several main characters in a mob family/drug cartel story that takes place in the fictional city of Los Santos, San Andreas. After the game was released, Plaintiffs Lindsay Lohan and Karen Gravano (of the reality show Mob Wives) were upset at what they believed to be characters that depicted them in particular ways. In 2014, they commenced suit against Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., the [...]
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