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  • Robert C. Ollman, Esq. - Kommer Bave and Ollman, LLP

    Robert C. Ollman, Esq. - Kommer Bave and Ollman, LLP

    Elite Lawyers New York

    Robert C. Ollman Robert C. Ollman is co-founder and Senior Partner of Kommer, Bave & Ollman LLP. He has been in the general practice of law for over 40 years. His practice focuses on Residential and Commercial Real Estate, Business Transactions, ...

  • Facebook loses search warrant challenge in New York court

    Facebook loses search warrant challenge in New York court

    Business Law 04/03/2017

    Facebook has lost a legal fight against a New York City prosecutor who sought search warrants for hundreds of user accounts. The New York state Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled that while the case raised important questions about privacy it was "con...

  • Court: Student prayers OK at school board meetings

    Court: Student prayers OK at school board meetings

    Civil Litigation News 03/23/2017

    A Texas school board can open its meetings with student-led public prayers without running afoul of the Constitution's prohibition against government-established religion, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The ruling by a three-judge panel of the...

  • Dems force 1-week delay on panel vote on Supreme Court pick

    Dems force 1-week delay on panel vote on Supreme Court pick

    Practice Focuses 03/23/2017

    Senate Democrats on Monday forced a one-week delay in a committee vote on President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, who remains on track for confirmation with solid Republican backing. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Judiciary Comm...

  • Manziel tries to reassure judge after missing court deadline

    Manziel tries to reassure judge after missing court deadline

    Civil Litigation News 03/23/2017

    After missing a court-ordered deadline, Johnny Manziel appeared before a judge Tuesday and promised to meet the stipulations required to get the troubled quarterback's domestic violence case dismissed while saying his distrust of the NFL played a par...

  • Florida Legislature at "Open War" with State Supreme Court

    Florida Legislature at "Open War" with State Supreme Court

    Political and Legal 03/23/2017

    The Republican-dominated Legislature's tense relationship with the state Supreme Court is hanging over this year's legislative session as lawmakers take up two bills to deal with the aftermath of court rulings that Republicans don't like. One of them...

  • High EU court: workplace headscarf ban not discriminatory

    High EU court: workplace headscarf ban not discriminatory

    Practice Focuses 03/23/2017

    Private businesses in Europe can forbid Muslim women in their employ from wearing headscarves if the ban is part of a policy of neutrality within the company and not a sign of prejudice against a particular religion, the European Court of Justice sai...

  • Kansas Chief Justice Pitches Lawmakers on Court Pay Hikes

    Kansas Chief Justice Pitches Lawmakers on Court Pay Hikes

    Employment Law 03/23/2017

    Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss is trying to persuade legislators to increase salaries for judges and pay for judicial branch employees. Nuss devoted much of his annual State of the Judiciary address Wednesday to what he described as t...

  • Immigration courts: record number of cases, many problems

    Immigration courts: record number of cases, many problems

    Immigration Law 03/23/2017

    Everyone was in place for the hearing in Atlanta immigration court: the Guinean man hoping to stay in the U.S., his attorney, a prosecutor, a translator and the judge. But because of some missing paperwork, it was all for nothing. When the government...

  • Oklahoma tribe sues oil companies in tribal court over quake

    Oklahoma tribe sues oil companies in tribal court over quake

    Business Law 03/23/2017

    An Oklahoma-based Native American tribe filed a lawsuit in its own tribal court system Friday accusing several oil companies of triggering the state's largest earthquake that caused extensive damage to some near-century-old tribal buildings. The Pawn...

  • SD high court sides with landowners in property rights case

    SD high court sides with landowners in property rights case

    Court Watch 03/19/2017

    The state Supreme Court has dealt a blow to South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks, ruling the agency can't allow people access to floodwaters or ice that covers private property without legislative approval. The agency had argued that all water was legal...

  • Brash Maine defense lawyer in Zumba brothel case dies at 79

    Brash Maine defense lawyer in Zumba brothel case dies at 79

    Attorneys in the News 03/13/2017

    Dan Lilley, a brash defense lawyer who was involved in many of Maine's highest profile cases including a prostitution scandal at a Zumba studio and the case of a restaurateur who shot her husband 15 times, has died. He was 79. Lilley died Saturday ni...