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New York State and Connecticut are two of a small minority of U.S. jurisdictions that do not simply allow a judgment creditor to file a foreign judgment from a sister state if the judgment was obtained by default (meaning the other side never showed up for to contest its entry in the other state by, for example, defending himself at trial) or ...
Callahan v. Carey was a landmark case in the New York County Supreme Court that established the duty of New York State to provide shelter for homeless men. It was brought in 1979 as a class action suit, the first such suit by advocates for the homeless in the United States, and settled with the negotiation in 1981 of a consent decree governing the provision of homeless shelters by New York City.
Oneida Indian Nation of New York v. County of Oneida , 414 U.S. 661 (1974), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court concerning aboriginal title in the United States . The original suit in this matter was the first modern-day Native American land claim litigated in the federal court system rather than before the Indian Claims ...
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) The Second Amendment protects an individual's right to carry a handgun for self-defense in public, outside the home; firearms regulations challenged on constitutional grounds must be evaluated against the "history and tradition" of such laws in the U.S. United States v.
The exceptions define both the types of actions as to which immunity does not attach and the territorial nexus required for adjudication in U.S. courts. The Act creates a form of long-arm statute establishing jurisdiction over claims that meet the criteria. The exceptions are listed at 28 U.S.C. §§ 1605, 1605A, and 1607.
These counties comprise 8% of New York State's land area, yet account for more than 50% of its population. [1] As with all four departments of the Appellate Division, the Second Department was created in its current form by the Constitution of the State of New York, adopted at the 1894 constitutional convention. The constitution fixes the ...
In 1788, New York State and the OIN entered into a treaty where the tribe ceded approximately 5,000,000 acres (7,800 sq mi; 20,000 km 2), reserving only 300,000 acres (470 sq mi; 1,200 km 2) to the OIN. [1] [2] The OIN and the state entered into another land transaction where the OIN ceded some of their 300,000-acre reservation to the state. [2]
On New York Life's request, the federal district court enjoined the state court proceeding. The Eighth Circuit upheld the injunction, reasoning that the Anti-Injunction Act did not apply because the injunction at issue was necessary to "effectuate and preserve" the "fruits of the decree" in the initial federal case.