Legal Opinion
Bernstein v. State of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 18, 2015No. 519531PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtEgan Jr., J.
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Lynch, J.), entered October 16, 2013 in Albany County, which granted defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint.
In 2001, plaintiff was disbarred from the practice of law by the Second Department, which sustained one charge of professional misconduct based upon plaintiff’s conversion of client funds for his own use (Matter of Bernstein, 285 AD2d 233 [2001], appeal dismissed 97 NY2d 725 [2002]). Following unsuccessful attempts to reargue and/or appeal his disbarment, plaintiff commenced a declaratory judgment action in federal court alleging a…
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- Moss v. Medical Liability Mutual InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996
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