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{"title":"What Public Defenders Don’t (Have to) Tell Their Clients","authors":"Steven Zeidman","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2864963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2864963","url":null,"abstract":"New York State courts, like many other state and federal courts, have seen an increase in cases that pit lawyer versus client; where the lawyer wanted to proceed in one way and the client wanted to go in another direction. The resulting decisions, often inconsistent and irreconcilable, reflect the difficulties in navigating the lawyer-client relationship.Recently, the New York Court of Appeals again waded directly into the muddy waters of attorney versus client decision-making. On the face of it, the Court was deciding whether counsel needed his client’s consent before telling the prosecutor that his client would not exercise his statutory right to testify in the Grand Jury. However, lurking beneath the surface are the larger and related questions of who, between lawyer and client, has ultimate decision-making power, and what information lawyers must provide clients about their rights.","PeriodicalId":220741,"journal":{"name":"City University of New York Law Review","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127224185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Toxic Sweatshops: Regulating the Import of Hazardous Electronics","authors":"Allison Robbins","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2717837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2717837","url":null,"abstract":"The rise in consumer use of personal electronic devices has led to a boom in electronics manufacturing worldwide. Along with the expansion of production have come serious questions about the safety of production processes, as large numbers of workers and their children have become seriously ill. This article proposes that the United States, as a leading importer of electronic devices and components, create an Electronics Import Safety Commission to make sure that both workers and consumers are safe. This commission, modeled after the Consumer Protection Safety Commission, would monitor and regulate electronics manufacturing and would enhance transparency and accountability throughout the supply chain.","PeriodicalId":220741,"journal":{"name":"City University of New York Law Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133397989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When Judges Don't Follow the Law: Research and Recommendations","authors":"Michele Cotton","doi":"10.13016/M2RR1PN9K","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13016/M2RR1PN9K","url":null,"abstract":"The sense that our legal system enforces the rule of law and provides litigants with equal justice may be based on perceptions created by its most visible courts. The courts where high-profile, high-stakes litigation and appellate review take place are frequented by attorneys, studied by legal scholars, covered by the media, and no doubt shape our view of the legal system as a whole. But the most visible courts are the tip of the iceberg and may not be representative of what happens in the larger, more obscure part of our system, such as those civil courts that handle “small claims,” debt collection, landlord-tenant disputes, and the like. Litigants are seldom represented by attorneys in such courts, and their cases rarely make the news or are noticed by law professors. Yet whether it is actually true that our legal system enforces the rule of law and provides equal justice would seem to depend on what happens in just such courts, as they are the legal system as most people experience it. If we care about the rule of law, we presumably do not want these so-called “lesser” courts to be places where high-minded","PeriodicalId":220741,"journal":{"name":"City University of New York Law Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134584958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Chicago Police Torture Scandal: A Legal and Political History","authors":"G. Taylor","doi":"10.31641/CLR170203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31641/CLR170203","url":null,"abstract":"CONTENTS INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 R I. THE WILSON CRIMINAL CASE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 R II. THE ANDREW WILSON CIVIL CASE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334 R III. THE ANONYMOUS LETTERS FROM “DEEP BADGE” . . . . . . . 335 R IV. OFFICE OF PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS REPORTS . . . . . . . . . 338 R V. THE FIRING OF JON BURGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339 R VI. Wilson Civil Suit on Remand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 R VII. AREA 2 TORTURE BY BURGE’S MIDNIGHT CREW . . . . . . . . 343 R VIII. THE BANKS AND BATES CASES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 R IX. THE CANNON CRIMINAL CASE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346 R X. THE DEATH ROW CASES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 R XI. AREA 3 DETECTIVE HEADQUARTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350 R XII. GUBERNATORIAL PARDONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352 R XIII. APPOINTMENT OF THE COOK COUNTY SPECIAL PROSECUTORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353 R XIV. CIVIL SUITS BY THE PARDONED PRISONERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354 R XV. THE INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 R XVI. THE SPECIAL PROSECUTORS’ REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358 R XVII. RESPONSE TO THE SPECIAL PROSECUTORS’ REPORT . . . . . 360 R XVIII. THE PROSECUTION OF JON BURGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363 R XIX. MORE EXONERATIONS AND LAWSUITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 R XX. THE STANLEY WRICE CASE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 R XXI. THE CANNON CIVIL SUIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367 R XXII. TILLMAN AND KITCHEN CIVIL SUITS: DALEY JOINED AS A DEFENDANT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 R XXIII. LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376 R XXIV. BURGE CONVICTION AFFIRMED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378 R XXV. SETTLEMENTS IN THE CIVIL CASES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 R CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380 R","PeriodicalId":220741,"journal":{"name":"City University of New York Law Review","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125147844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Tribute to Justice: Honoring Forty Years of Struggle to Advance Judicial Process for Crimes Against Humanity in Chile","authors":"B. Real, G. Bindman, Joan E. Garcės, A. Bernabéu","doi":"10.31641/clr170205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31641/clr170205","url":null,"abstract":"1 These remarks were delivered as part of A Tribute to Justice, an event commemorating the 40th anniversary of the military coup d’etat in Chile, presented by the Charles Horman Truth Foundation at the Third Church of Christ Scientist in New York City on September 9, 2013. Other speakers and honorees included Peter Weiss, Judge Juan Guzman Tapia, Jennifer Harbury, Reed Brody, Peter Kornbluh, and Prof. Cynthia Soohoo. The program was co-sponsored by CUNY School of Law, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Institute for Policy Studies, and the North American Congress on Latin America, with support from the Ford Foundation. The editors thank Joyce Horman for permission to transcribe the program, and gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Bridget Lombardozzi and Southern District Court Reporters, P.C. The remarks have been edited for length and grammatical continuity. Videos of the entire Tribute to Justice program can be accessed at http:// www.hormantruth.org/ht/2013videos. 2 Almudena Bernabeu has served as International Attorney for the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) since early 2002. Bernabeu leads CJA’s Latin America program, practicing U.S.-based civil Alien Tort Statute litigation against human rights abusers and universal jurisdiction criminal human rights prosecutions before the Spanish National Court. Bernabeu is also Director of CJA’s Transitional Justice Program. Bernabeu currently serves as the lead private prosecutor on two human rights cases before the Spanish National Court: one filed on behalf of survivors of the Guatemalan Genocide and the other brought against senior Salvadoran officials for the massacre of Jesuit priests in 1989. Bernabeu has worked in human rights and international law for the past decade. She has published many articles on human rights litigation in national courts and its effectiveness in the struggle against impunity, as well as on reforming Spanish asylum and refugee law. She has lectured at universities in multiple countries, participated in numerous conferences internationally, and has conducted trainings for lawyers and government prosecutors. Bernabeu is also Vice President of the Spanish Association for Human Rights (www.apdhe.org), and serves as an advisor at the Human Rights Clinic at Santa Clara University. Bernabeu is a member of the advisory board of the Peruvian Institute of Forensic Anthropology (EPAF) (www.epafperu.org), a forensic group providing evidence on human rights violations investigations and prosecutions. In 2012, Bernabeu won the prestigious Katharine & George Alexander Law Prize, and the Yo Dona Magazine Award. She was named one of the 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2013, and just received the SCEVOLA award for ethics and professional excellence. Ms. Bernabeu holds an LLM degree from the University Of Valencia School Of Law, where she specialized in Public International Law. Trained in Spanish and U.S. law, she is a member of the Valencia and Madri","PeriodicalId":220741,"journal":{"name":"City University of New York Law Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126065343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Discriminatory Maintenance of REO Properties as a Violation of the Federal Fair Housing Act","authors":"Stephen M. Dane, T. Ramchandani, A. Bellows","doi":"10.31641/CLR170204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31641/CLR170204","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":220741,"journal":{"name":"City University of New York Law Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122383611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tax a Bank, Save a Home: Judicial, Legislative, and Other Creative Efforts to Prevent Foreclosures in New York","authors":"Erica Braudy","doi":"10.31641/clr170202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31641/clr170202","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":220741,"journal":{"name":"City University of New York Law Review","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130008637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Natural Disasters, Access to Justice, and Legal Services","authors":"J. Ballard, Julia Howard-Gibbon, Branda Muñoz Furnish, Aaron Scheinwald","doi":"10.31641/CLR170101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31641/CLR170101","url":null,"abstract":"CONTENTS INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 R I. SRU ORIGIN AND STRUCTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 R A. SRU Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 R B. Legal Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 R 1. Federal Assistance: FEMA and SBA . . . . . . . . . . . 6 R 2. Private Insurance (Homeowner’s and Flood Insurance) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 R C. Levels of Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 R D. Expanded Client Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 R II. CASE STUDIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 R A. Client A—FEMA Home Repair and Basement Living Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 R B. Client B—Displaced Renter Affected by New Zoning and Flood Elevation Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 R C. Client C—SRU’s Holistic Approach to Assistance . . . . . 27 R CONCLUSION: AN ONGOING RECOVERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 R","PeriodicalId":220741,"journal":{"name":"City University of New York Law Review","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125090261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Male Asylum Applicants Who Fear Becoming the Victims of Honor Killings: The Case for Gender Equality","authors":"C. Steinke","doi":"10.31641/CLR170107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31641/CLR170107","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 I. HONOR KILLINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 A. The Cultural Significance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 B. Male Victims of Honor Killings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 C. Honor Killings versus Domestic Violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 II. ASYLUM CLAIMS BASED ON THE THREAT OF AN HONOR KILLING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 A. The Elements of an Asylum Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 B. Case Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 i. Showing Membership in a Particular Social Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 ii. Showing that the Government Is Unwilling or Unable to Prevent the Harm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 iii. Showing an Inability to Relocate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 C. Honor Killing Asylum Claims Brought by Men . . . . . . . 254 III. ANALYZING HONOR KILLING ASYLUM CLAIMS IN GENDER-NEUTRAL TERMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 A. The Responsibility of Asylum Courts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 B. The Responsibility of Federal Agencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262","PeriodicalId":220741,"journal":{"name":"City University of New York Law Review","volume":"15 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125828843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Single-Room Occupancy Housing in New York City: The Origins and Dimensions of a Crisis","authors":"Brian J. Sullivan, J. Burke","doi":"10.31641/CLR170104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31641/CLR170104","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 I. THE BASICS OF SRO HOUSING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 II. THE NEED FOR SRO HOUSING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 III. THE DESTRUCTION OF SRO HOUSING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 A. Rent Regulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 B. Certificate of No Harassment (CONH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 C. Homelessness Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 IV. NEW YORK CITY’S PERMANENT HOUSING CRISIS . . . . . . . . 132 V. SROS AND THE CRISIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 VI. BRINGING SROS BACK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 A. Lift the Ban on the Construction of New SRO Units . . 139 B. Preserve Existing Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143","PeriodicalId":220741,"journal":{"name":"City University of New York Law Review","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128438589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}