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    Remembering Nicholas Scoppetta

    Commentary
    Ross Sandler

    Ross Sandler

    Nicholas Scoppetta, who passed away in March at age 83, represented the best in the City’s civic life. He often attended New York Law School events and was the featured speaker at a CityLaw Breakfast on September 12, 1997. At that time he headed the Administration for Children’s Services, and was deep in litigation with advocates for children who wanted the federal court to take over his agency. Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani had appointed Scoppetta in January 1996 following the November 1995 death of six-year-old Elisa Izquierdo. Elisa had been beaten to death by her mother, but the City was faulted because the City’s Child Welfare Administration possessed evidence that Elisa was endangered, and had failed to place the little girl into protective custody. In the public furor Mayor Giuliani assumed personal responsibility for children’s services, ordered the agency to report directly to him and appointed Nicholas Scoppetta to head the new agency.

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    Tags : Administration for Children's Services, CityLaw, Commissioner of Investigation, Fire Commissioner, Nicholas Scoppetta
    Date:05/18/2016
    Category : CityLaw
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    Scooters, Hoverboards, and Bicycles; What’s Legal?

    Cover Article by: Jessica Soultanian-Braunstein
    scooters, hoverboards, bicycles

    Image credit: Jeff Hopkins

    New Yorkers enjoy many new forms of transportation such as electric scooters, electric bicycles, hoverboards, skateboards, in-line skates, electric wheelchairs, and more. The laws governing these forms of transportation are confusing and mostly unenforced, if they are even enforceable. State laws and regulations on vehicle and roadway usage typically trump conflicting local laws, except in New York City, where the New York City Council has been given much authority to promulgate laws and regulations on the use of the City’s public roadways. (read more…)

    Tags : Bicycle, Hoverboards, New York Vehicle and Traffic Law, Pedicabs, Scooters
    Date:02/25/2016
    Category : CityLaw
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    Michele Coleman Mayes, Vice President and General Counsel at the NY Public Library

    Michele Coleman Mayes
    Michele Coleman Mayes

    Michele Coleman Mayes

    Michele Mayes, a natural-born leader, has served a wide variety of institutions during her professional journey. Mayes was born in California and attended both college and law school at the University of Michigan. Her legal work experience included stints in the public sector, private sector, and today, at a non-profit. Mayes served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney both in Detroit, Michigan and Brooklyn, New York. Later in her career Mayes served as the executive vice president and general counsel at Allstate Corporation. She joined the New York Public Library in August 2012. (read more…)

    Tags : Michele Coleman Mayes, New York Public Library
    Date:02/24/2016
    Category : CityLaw
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    CityLaw Profile: Salvatore J. Russo, General Counsel to the Health and Hospitals Corporation

    Sal Russo
    Health and Hospital Corporation General Counsel Sal Russo. Image credit: HHC

    Health and Hospital Corporation General Counsel Salvatore J.  Russo. Image credit: HHC

    Salvatore J. Russo is the senior vice president, general counsel, secretary to the board of directors, and a corporate officer at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. HHC is the public benefit corporation responsible for administering the City’s municipal health care system, which involves the operation of eleven acute-care hospitals, four long-term-care facilities, and six diagnostic treatment centers. HHC functions like a voluntary, not-for-profit hospital with an $8 billion budget and approximately 36,000 direct employees, including 5,000 doctors.

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    Tags : CityLaw Profile, Health & Hospitals Corporation, Sal Russo, Xaverian High School
    Date:12/16/2015
    Category : CityLaw
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    New York’s Constitutional Convention Vote: Hit or Stand?

    Cover Article by Michael Twomey
    Voting_Booth_FINAL(small)

    Image credit: Jeff Hopkins

    In 2017, along with voting for mayor, council members, and other elected officials, the voters of New York will be asked to answer “Yes “or “No” to this question:  “Shall there be a convention to revise the constitution and amend the same?” Every twenty years, the New York State constitution requires that the voters of the State be given the option to call a constitutional convention for revising and amending the New York State constitution – a generational opportunity to consider the State’s governing document and how well we are governed.

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    Tags : Common Cause New York, Constitutional Convention, Gerald Benjamin, Governor Mario Cuomo, League of Women Voters, Michael A. Cardozo, New York City Bar Association, New York Public Interest Research Group
    Date:12/14/2015
    Category : CityLaw
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