Category: State Courts
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Half a Road in Genesee County, and the Court of Appeals Decides It Is “Time for Repose”
New York’s highest court ruled 5–2 that a 117-year-old fish-and-game club owns all of Godfrey’s Pond Road by adverse possession. Judge Rivera, joined by Chief Judge Wilson, dissented, saying decades of neighborly use left questions only a trial could answer.
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The Kushners’ Former Law-School Building: Still Stabilized, Maybe Deregulated, and Headed Back to Kings County
In Connors v Kushner Cos., the Second Department held that when a dormitory exemption ends, the apartments return to rent stabilization. It also held that 2014’s luxury-deregulation rules still applied, and it denied each side the bigger win it sought.
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Founded in 1766, Rutgers Wins the Right to Grade Its Own Majors
A New Jersey appellate panel ruled that Rutgers does not need approval from the state’s higher-education office to add degree programs. The judges cited a 1956 law and a long line of exemptions for colleges founded before 1887. “It is a significant difference for Rutgers,” they wrote.
