Statute Detective
The federal rule that concerns expert testimony.
What is Federal Rule of Evidence 702
EDNY page limit for a motion for summary judgment.
What is 25 pages?
Under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 what an incarcerated person must prove for a claim for deliberate indifference to medical care.
What is two components - the objective - that the person had a serious medical condition and the subjective - that the official knew of the condition and acted with deliberate indifference.
You represent someone charged with attempted murder. You find a 1995 case interpreting the statute. Two things that you need to check before relying on it.
What are is the case still good law and has the statutory language changed since the interpretation?
The definition of homicide under the New York Penal Law.
What is Penal Law Section 125.00 "Homicide means conduct which causes the death of a person under circumstances constituting murder, manslaughter in the first degree, manslaughter in the second degree, or criminally negligent homicide.
The rule that provides for discipline of an attorney who appears before the Southern or Eastern District of New York and is not a member of the bar of that court and did not obtain permission to appear.
What is Local Rule 1.5(b)(6)?
The statute of limitations for an action brough under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 in the Eastern District of New York.
What is three years?
A case from 2020 quotes the relevant statute, but you find the language of the statute has changed. Next steps?
What are research when the statute changed, determine which version applies to your specific facts and whether the earlier language remains useful.
Client moved to Georgia in June and wants to file a divorce petition against his wife in Georgia state court. Has he been a resident of Georgia for a sufficient time to file a petition.
What is no. Must be a resident of Georgia for six months before filing a petition. Ga. Code Ann. Section 19-5-2
The Individual Assignment Part does Justice Erica L. Prager of the Nassau County Supreme Court sit in.
What is IA Part 12?
Case that holds that a defendant's teeth, used to bite a victim's finger, is not a dangerous instrument within the meaning of Burglary in the Second Degree.
What is People v. Owusu, 93 N.Y.2d 398?
In New York it is illegal to intentionally cause or aid another in a suicide attmpet.
What is New York Penal Law Section 120.30
Justice Prager's rule regarding whether an exhibit can be double sided.
What is Rule C(5) and no an exhibit can not be double-sided.
Venue statute that provides for the venue where a plaintiff, who resides in Brooklyn, can sue a New York State Trooper, who lives in Westchester, under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 for false arrest that occurred at the Saratoga racetrack (Northern District of New York)
What is 28 U.S.C.A. Section 1391(B)(1-2)
What is Westlaw? Rule IV.D(6)
For purposes of venue where does the New York State Trooper reside.
What is where they are employed?