DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — It is very possible that the New York State Court of Appeals will issue its decision on the constitutionality of eminent domain at Atlantic Yards Monday or Tuesday.

Gary Spencer, the public information officer for the state’s high court, said that decisions on cases with the Court of Appeals will be handed down Monday and Tuesday, and then on the following Tuesday, Dec. 1. However, he did not say whether the Atlantic {read more...}

The recently-appointed justice, originally of the Bronx, reportedly had a meal at Po restaurant, located at 276 Smith St. in Carroll Gardens.

The dinner sighting was mentioned on Twitter and reported by gossip web site Gawker.

“It’s not every night you sit down in a Brooklyn restaurant (Po) and notice a Supreme Court justice (Sotomayor) two tables away,� journalist {read more...}

Kaye, the longtime chief judge of New York state who stepped down at the end of 2008, was the {read more...}

Ahmad Afzali was given the special permission to visit his father’s {read more...}

NEW YORK — A prison system official says a New York City man is free after spending nearly two decades behind bars for murder before a judge declared him innocent.

Fernando Bermudez was released {read more...}

By Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

WILLIAMSBURG — One of seven new developments in the area of Union Avenue and Keap and Powers streets in Williamsburg that the Eagle wrote about last year, has opened and will remain condos — while most of the others “have taken the rental route,� said David Maundrell of Aptsandlofts.com, who is overseeing sales. In the three-plus weeks since the new six-story building at 1 Powers St., corner of Union, celebrated its grand opening, several {read more...}

JAY STREET — When long-serving court attorney Kerry Ward was summoned to the administrative judge’s chambers on the top floor of Brooklyn Supreme Court, this hard worker said she expected to be asked about “a problem case.�

But Ward wasn’t being asked to use her legal expertise to help with a case. In fact, she was informed that she had been chosen as Brooklyn Supreme Court Employee of the Year. And she said she hasn’t stopped blushing {read more...}

After handling a motion in her courtroom, Justice Dowling explained to the {read more...}

The Brooklyn Bar Association, led this year by dynamic President John Lonuzzi, has singled out a number of legal luminaries who will certainly enliven the proceedings when the BBA holds it big Annual Dinner on Dec. 7 at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott on Adams Street.

Recipients of the BBA’s coveted Annual Award are Kings {read more...}

A co-worker has been calling in sick a lot and confided in me that her husband is physically abusive, but she doesn’t want to have him arrested. Is there somewhere that she can get help?

I saw firsthand what domestic violence did to my mother and our family. As a {read more...}

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — After years of fighting lawsuits filed in opposition to his multibillion dollar Atlantic Yards project, developer Bruce Ratner continues to get pounded by waves of litigation.

Another lawsuit was filed Thursday, making it the third in less than 40 days. But if landowners facing eviction win their biggest legal battle, which will possibly be decided next week, then these lawsuits will be mostly moot.

This latest lawsuit, which challenges the project’s app-roval process, comes at a time when both sides of the legal controversy are eagerly awaiting the state’s high court to rule on the most important issue of all the cases — whether {read more...}