President Obama’s executive order from November 2014 has just received another legal setback.  A three judge panel from the Fifth Circuit in Texas v. United States voted 2 to 1 against the Obama Administration.   This allows the injunction of a Texas district court, which prevents the executive...

Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on June 26, 2015, in the matter of Obergefell v. Hodges, same sex couples now have the right to marry throughout the United States.  Further, every state must also recognize the same sex marriages performed in other states. The right for same sex couples to...

On November 21, 2014, President Obama announced that he would be issuing an executive order that would defer the deportation of millions of people who do not have legal status to be in the United States.     To qualify for deferred action under the executive order, a person must meet the following...

This past June, the Supreme Court ruled The Defense of Marriage Act, the law preventing the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages, unconstitutional. Previously, even with New York and fourteen other states passing laws allowing gay marriage, DOMA had barred the federal government...

For the last several years, those considering filing bankruptcy in New York who lived in either a rent-controlled or rent-stabilized apartment had to consider the possibility of losing their home if they filed bankruptcy. It seemed crazy that some of the most vulnerable among us risked becoming...