Posts Tagged ‘Andrew Cuomo’

“Devil’s Bargain: Wall Street and the Martin Act”

My new op-ed at the New York Post looks at the history of Spitzer-to-Cuomo-to-Eric Schneiderman prosecutorial overreach and asks: how exactly did the New York Attorney General come to have so much power with so little constraint? (& welcome Instapundit, Real Clear Markets, Timothy Carney/Examiner, CEI readers)

More: I and others have written about the act here and at Point of Law.

Filed under: Andrew Cuomo, attorneys general, Bernard Madoff, Eliot Spitzer, Eric Schneiderman, New York, prosecution, securities litigation

March 14 roundup

A San Francisco cosmetic surgeon sues her online critics — in Virginia? [Paul Alan Levy, CL&P]
SCOTUS ruling in “cat’s-paw” case could gut summary judgment in many bias suits [Hyman]
Cuomo spokesman’s smart retort to Litigation Lobby attack on Medicaid reform panel [LoHud.com]
“Tennessee Cops Posed as a Defense Attorney To Get Suspect To Incriminate Himself” [Reason]
“Illinois golfer not liable for head shot” [Lowering the Bar]
Trade friction mounts due to anti-India provisions in Zadroga (9/11 recovery workers) compensation bill [PoL]
Is a tax-funded federal nonprofit entity funneling money to environmental suits against the government? [Ron Arnold, Examiner]
FCRA class action deemed “lawsuit abuse problem in a nutshell” [Examiner editorial]
“Fatherhood by Conscription: Nonconsensual Insemination & the Duty of Child Support” [Michael Higdon, SSRN via Instapundit]

Filed under: Andrew Cuomo, Center for Justice & Democracy, debtor-creditor law, discrimination law, environment, family law, golf, India, libel slander and defamation, police, September 11

November 1 roundup

Election edition:

On Oklahoma ballot: grossly overbroad measure to ban use of foreign law [Atlantic Wire, Transplanted Lawyer, earlier Volokh]
Michigan race: “Dems cross the line with bigoted Supreme Court ad” [Stephen Henderson, Freep; earlier on attacks on Justice Robert Young]
Jacob Sullum is another non-fan of Andrew Cuomo’s record;
What was the exact nature of that Vancouver fundraiser so many Senate hopefuls attended? Carter Wood wishes he could add a footnote to an already strong column by George Will on the Linda McMahon-Richard Blumenthal Senate race in Connecticut;
Speaking of which, Will’s latest election roundup column is just out, while Nate Silver at the NYT’s Five Thirty Eight blog offers an outstanding hour-by-hour election-night guide;
Iowa poll shows former AAJ/ATLA president Roxanne Conlin, of SomePeopleJustNeedToBeSued.com fame, trailing far behind in bid to unseat Sen. Chuck Grassley [WHO-TV via Carter Wood’s PoL election roundup;
Trial lawyers pour cash into California insurance commissioner race [CJAC]
Latest effort by New York Times to lionize activist AGs as “next Eliot Spitzers” recalls earlier Times pieces written to same formula, in the most amusing of which it lionized as the next Spitzer Ohio’s since-disgraced Marc Dann. Yet (the shaky electoral performance of such Times favorites as Massachusetts’ Martha Coakley aside) there’s reason to suspect voters this year will return a roster of AGs that’s less inclined toward business-bashing, not more [Jack Fowler at NRO].
Government a threat to liberty? Doesn’t just depend on whether “our” team’s in charge [Gene Healy, Examiner]

Filed under: Andrew Cuomo, attorneys general, California, Connecticut, Iowa, judicial elections, Michigan, Oklahoma, politics

Why I wouldn’t vote for Andrew Cuomo

And it’s not just the big role he played in the Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac debacle: my new post at Cato-at-Liberty (& thanks to Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit and Frum Forum for the links).

Filed under: Andrew Cuomo, guns