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Article from The Chief Leader Seeks new contract, more staff BY RICHARD KHAVKINE Patrick Cullen, who will begin a fourth term as president of the New York State Supreme Court Officers Association in July, has a full slate of tasks ahead of him. The union leader, along...

As a mandate deadline kicked in, more than 100 unvaccinated court workers were handed pink slips Thursday as a handful of judges—legally entitled to their jobs—were barred from courthouses. Article from law.com by Brian Lee  Litigation Reporter As four state judges...

By Frank G. Runyeon  from Law360 ·  Listen to article Law360 (January 20, 2022, 2:30 PM EST) -- An unvaccinated New York state judge barred from his courthouse over COVID-19 concerns has been violating court administrators' orders this month by repeatedly returning...

The NYPD’s largest union is warning its members to inspect their personal vehicles for “sabotage,” after three officers’ cars, each of them displaying a police placard or parked illegally, were vandalized in recent days.

“We see our funds as needing to be managed with one goal in mind and that’s maximizing the rate of return.” Article from Vice.com By Geoff Dembicki   Police unions are pushing back against divesting their pensions away from fossil fuels, calling the move a...

The city is blaming the courts as a man accused of attacking police officers was released without bail, but court officials are fighting back, saying the mayor and the police commissioner are trying to shift blame for failed gun violence policies; CBS2 political...

State courts accuse de Blasio of ‘shifting the blame’ for NYC crime wave By Julia Marsh Mayor Bill de Blasio should take responsibility for the city’s crime wave instead of shifting blame to state judges, the court system’s spokesman said Thursday. Earlier in the day,...