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Legal Aid Society Investigator Sues Southampton Over Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) Request Delay
"A Legal Aid Society of Suffolk County investigator is petitioning the State Supreme Court to force Southampton Village to fulfill, with no further delay, his Freedom of Information Law request... He sent an appeal letter to Village Attorney Eileen Powers on April 26, noting the lack of an explanation for the delay and citing Committee on Open Government opinion letters that state that the FOIL prohibits unnecessary delays in disclosure...." Read More here: https://www.27east.com/southampton-press/legal-aid-society-investigator-sues-southampton-village-over-freedom-of-information-request-delay-2258487/
Judge holds Nassau County police in contempt over reporter's telephone directory request
One of over a dozen legal proceedings involving Charles Lane handled by this Office, "The [Nassau County Police] department has still not turned over the directory, Nassau Supreme Court Judge Dawn Jimenez said in her May 16 ruling, holding the county and department in contempt of court “based upon their failure to comply with the Appellate Division’s decision and order.” Read More here: https://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/nassau-police-contempt-ku6u20dv
Southampton Village Pays $15,000 In Attorneys’ Fees To Settle FOIL Lawsuit Over Police Data
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27east.com discusses "The Southampton Village Board agreed to pay $15,000 and release Village Police license plate reader data to resolve a Freedom of Information lawsuit brought last year by a group dedicated to protecting public access to government records.
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Charles Lane of the Institute for Access to Public Information, an upstart group of Long Island-based journalists and attorneys, said he brought the lawsuit against the village because his repeated requests for the data went unfulfilled or ignored Lane and fellow members of the institute’s board, attorneys Victor Yannacone and Cory Morris, noted during a group interview last week that the difficulty he had obtaining records from the village is common across the state — a problem their group was established to combat."
September 30, 2022 - New York Law Journal:
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Lawsuits Continue to Challenge Conceal Carry Improvement Act - A new challenge filed by lawyers on behalf of a Brooklyn synagogue challenged the law on grounds that it unconstitutional...
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Lawsuit Web Access: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65384942/4/goldstein-v-hochul/
Newsday: $750,000 Verdict against Suffolk County
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Cory Morris was able to return two verdicts, one for monetary damages relating to civil rights violations against the individual police officer and another against Suffolk County for maintaining a pattern and practice of police misconduct.
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/suffolk-police-department-violated-rights-federal-monitor-mrb9hqoj
New York Law Journal:
Also reported by New York Law Journal, "Suffolk County Found Liable for 'Pattern and Practice' of Civil Rights Violations"
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https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2023/05/03/suffolk-county-found-liable-for-pattern-and-practice-of-civil-rights-violations/
SPSSI: Medical Aid in Dying
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Cory H. Morris and David Leven spoke
on “Medical Aid in Dying" and were recognized by
the Society for the Psychological study of
Social Issues
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Read More here: https://www.spssi.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewPage&pageID=2834&nodeID=1
The repeal of New York’s 50-a could be a boon to defense attorneys
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Cory Morris was featured by MuckRock in their article about police accountability, FOIL and New York Criminal Defense. “FOIL can serve as a check upon prosecutors who fail to comply with the spirit and intent of Brady where ‘the prosecution is required to disclose information that is both favorable to the defense and material to either defendant’s guilt or punishment,’” as attorney Cory Morris recently wrote in the New York Law Journal. Morris is working with MuckRock on a series of requests to New York police departments for law enforcement disciplinary records.
Freedom of Information Law Requests Show Village of Babylon Attorney Treehouse Fees
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"Glass defended the cost — $54,749 — to help the village tackle the lawsuits Lepper has filed...Village Attorney Gerard Glass has billed Babylon for a little more than 182 hours at $300 per hour between Dec. 1, 2018, and Jan. 16, 2020. This also includes a reimbursement for $99.91 in mailing fees. The fees are separate from the flat rate retainer the village pays Glass of $75,000 annually for about 20 hours of work each month to handle other village matters."
Courthouse News Services: Police Disciplinary Records Face Spotlight in NYC’s Latest Reform Push
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"MuckRock — a nonprofit collaborative news site teamed up with Long Island-based attorney Cory Morris and the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information — launched a campaign to send a barrage of Freedom of Information Law requests to every police department in the state to prevent the destruction of these records and demand the release of all disciplinary records."
Muckrock: New York officer misconduct and disciplinary materials
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Brechner Center Partners with MuckRock to Gather Police-Misconduct Records from Across New York
Suit: Nassau DA should disclose security of online portal for evidence exchange
The lawsuit was brought to ensure safety and avoid data breaches against the Nassau County District Attorney's Office as discussed in Newsday: Working along side long-time civil rights attorney Victor John "Yannacone, who is working with Melville attorney Cory Morris for the plaintiff, also said there was “no guarantee that the third-party provider is not aggregating information from these confidential materials and using them for commercial purposes.”
