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  1. July 23, 2024

    NY Judge OKs Public Disclosure In Atty Misconduct Cases

    A New York federal judge ruled Monday that the First Amendment does allow those who filed grievances against attorneys to access disciplinary hearings before the Appellate Division's Second Judicial Department, records related to those hearings and some of the grievance committee's final dispositions.

  2. March 28, 2023

    NY Atty Grievance Committee Procedures To Be Released

    A New York federal judge has ordered the state to release documents about attorney grievance committee procedures after a group of law professors and a nonprofit argued the public should have the right to access the committee's ultimate resolution of complaints alleging prosecutorial misconduct.

  3. March 10, 2023

    Prosecutor Misconduct Rulings Should Be Public, Profs Say

    The public should have the right to access the ultimate resolution by New York's attorney grievance committee of complaints alleging prosecutorial misconduct, several law professors have urged the Manhattan federal court.

  4. June 16, 2022

    NYC Can't Seal Prosecutor Misconduct Complaints

    The city of New York can't use the confidentiality of attorney disciplinary proceedings to keep a group of law professors from publishing their complaints of prosecutorial misconduct, a New York federal court has ruled.