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Ruth Levine To Be Bride

Ruth Ellen Levine, an assistant district attorney in Manhattan, and Leonard R. Sussman, an associate in the New York law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, plan to be married in March, her parents, Justice and Mrs. Howard A. Levine of Schenectady, have announced. Miss Levine graduated from Smith College and the Georgetown University Law Center. Her father is an Associate Justice of the State Supreme Court's Appellate Division in Albany. Her mother, Barbara Levine, is a social worker in private pratice and divorce mediation in the Albany area. Mr. Sussman, the son of Leonard R. Sussman of New York

High court nominee has favorable record on business issues.

If what's past is prologue, U.S. Appeals Court Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s elevation to the Supreme Court could be good news indeed for employers. That's subject, of course, to the Senate giving its approval to President Bush's nominee. But where some observers claimed that the president's other two Supreme Court nominees-now-Chief Justice John G. Roberts and White House Counsel Harriet Miers-lacked a sufficient paper trail, Judge Alito's paper trail is copious. As a judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia since 1990, Judge Alito has been involved in hundreds of cases involving employment practices, insurance

Dual disability decisions demonstrate the status of Americans with Disabilities Act.

A high-profile case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court near the end of its recently concluded 2003-04 term concerned the public accommodations provision of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The Supreme Court decision complemented a lower-profile determination by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the costs of disabled parking permits. Although both cases focused on the ADA, they addressed broader issues regarding the relationship between federal and state government bodies, as well as other constitutional considerations. Access accommodations Surprising many observers, in Tennessee v. Lane, 124 S.Ct. 1978 (May 17, 2004), the U.S. Supreme Court departed from

Voluntary Separation of a Young Married Couple

In the case of ALBERT PECK against MATILDA S. PECK, a motion was made yesterday at the Superior Court, Special Term, before Judge JONES, to set aside the decree of divorce entered in favor of the plaintiff. The motion was made on the ground of fraud practiced by the husband, and of perjury on the part of the main witness in his behalf. Source : query.nytimes.com

The Wife Secured a Separation Many Years Ago

A divorce case, made peculiar by the advanced age of the principals and the fact that they have been separated for years, was tried before Justice Andrews in the Supreme Court yesterday. The plaintiff is Mrs. Patience M. Gardner, a well-preserved woman of sixty-three years old, who sues for an absolute divorce on statutory grounds from her husband, James Gardner, who is seventy-six years old. Source : query.nytimes.com