Elisabeth Haub School of Law News

Watching Major League Baseball celebrate Jackie Robinson day on April 15 reminded me of when I once met him along with Roy Echols, a community organizer in Yonkers, NY.

The skepticism the attorney general's filing outlines appears to demonstrate her distrust for Trump given the nature of the case she brought against him and its findings, Bennett Gershman, a Pace University law professor and former New York prosecutor, told Salon. "After litigating and winning cases involving Trump’s dishonest business practices, including phony charities and a phony college scam, and then winning a $465 [million] lawsuit in which Trump was found [liable] of massive fraud, AG James doesn’t trust anything Trump does or says," Gershman said. "It’s really that simple."

Law Professor Philip G. Cohen writes a piece in the American Bar Association about blocked income and reviewed the decision in 3M Company & Subsidiaries v. Commissioner.

Professor Gershman speaks with CBS News about how more than 500 New Yorkers to be considered as jurors in Trump's "hush money" trial.

Bennett Gershman, a former prosecutor who is a professor at Pace University Law School studying prosecutorial misconduct, said attorney-client privilege barred Hoovler from disclosing his conversations with the former client.

In Georgia, for example, a 2019 "fetal heartbeat" law, which essentially banned most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy or when prenatal cardiac activity is detected, allowed families to claim an embryo as a dependent on state tax filings. But elsewhere, state tax codes rely on the federal definition of a dependent, which requires a live birth, according to Bridget Crawford, a tax law professor at Pace Law School.