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A TALE OF THREE LAWSUITS: 
PRESS REPORTING REPORTING & EDITORIALIZING

 CJA's OUTREACH TO PRESS ABOUT CJA v. JCOPE, et al.
June 2022   July 2022


#1
CJA v. JCOPE, et al -- SOLE ARTICLE

June 13, 2022
"Citizens' Group Seeks To Void Repeal And Replacement of NY Ethics Watchdog"
New York Law Journal (Brian Lee)

* * *

#2
September 26, 2022
"Lawsuit seeks to strike key plank of new ethics law"
Albany Times Union (Chris Bragg)

September 26, 2022
"New ethics commission faces lawsuit and criticism"
News 10-WABC (Amal Tlaige)

October 3, 2022
"Lawsuit challenges committee's confirmation power to New York's new ethics commission"
Spectrum (Ryan Whalen)

October 7, 2022
"Lawsuit challenges confidentiality of ethics commission"
News 10-WABC (Amal Tlaige)  news@news10.comJDeLine@news10.com 

April 26, 2023
"Cuomo sues ethics panel saying its creation was flawed"
Albany Times Union (Joshua Solomon)

April 26, 2023
"Cuomo, who specialized in controlling ethics commissions,
sues existing ethics commission for being too controlling of the governor
"
City & State (Shantel Destra)

April 26, 2023
"Andrew Cuomo lawsuit says state has no authority to take his book millions"
New York Post (Zach Williams)

June 2, 2023
"Disgraced ex NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo fights in court
to keep $5M from COVID book
"
NY Post (Zach Williams) 

June 29, 2023
"The Constitutionality of the Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government"
Gov't Law Center/Albany Law School (Bennett Liebman)

September 11, 2023
"NY Ethics Agency in Doubt after Andrew Cuomo Lawsuit Win (1)"
Bloomberg Law (Zach Williams)

To contact the reporter on this story: Zach Williams at zwilliams@bloombergindustry.com

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Fawn Johnson at fjohnson@bloombergindustry.com; Stephanie Gleason at sgleason@bloombergindustry.com


September 11, 2023

"
Cuomo wins lawsuit, leaves New York without ethics watchdog"
Politico (Bill Mahoney)

September 11, 2023
"
Cuomo Wins Book Lawsuit, Leaving New York's ethics panel in Limbo"
New York Times (Grace Ashford)

September 11, 2023
"Judge rules in favor of Cuomo's bid to keep book money, neuter ethics board"
Daily News (Tim Balk)

September 11, 2023
"Ex-Gov Andrew Cuomo notches big winwith bombshell ruling that deems

NY ethics panel probing his $5M COVID book deal ‘unconstitutional
"
New York Post (Carl Campanile, Ben Kochman)

September 11, 2023
"
The New York ethics commission that pursued former Govenor Cuomo
is unconstitutional, a judge says
"
AP (Michael Hill)   The Independent

September 11, 2023
"
Judge strikes down New York state ethics panel"
Public Radio (Karen DeWitt)  NY-NOW

September 11, 2023
"
Court decision upends New York ethics oversight"
Spectrum News (Kate Lisa)

September 11, 2023
"
Cuomo wins lawsuit disbanding Albany's ethics watchdog body"
Buffalo News (Chris Bragg)

September 11, 2023
"
Andrew Cuomo scores $5 M court Victory in Legal Upset"
Newsweek (Katherine Fung)

September 11, 2023
"
Albany judge deems state ethics panel unconstitutional in Cuomo book case"
AM-NY - Politics NY (Ethan Stark-Miller)

September 11, 2023
"
Cuomo wins initial legal fight to unravel new ethics commission"
City & State (Vaughn Golden)

September 11, 2023
"
Reinvent Albany advisor on ruling that NYS ethics commission is unconstitutional"

Spectrum News (Casey Bortnick)

September 11, 2023
"Cuomo wins lawsuit disbanding Albany's ethics watchdog"
Buffalo News (Chris Bragg)

"Suit spurs talk of constitutional ethics change"
Spectrum News (Kate Lisa)

September 12, 2023
"Albany and ethics never mix.
A judge knocking down the state watchdog is due to the sloppy way it was created
"
Daily News (editorial)

September 12, 2023
"New Yorkers need a say on state ethics panel"
Newsday (editorial)

"New York court rules state ethics commission unconstitutional"
Jurist  (Rebekah Yeager-Malken)

September 18, 2023
"Cuomo wins another round to protect his multi-million dollar book deal"
WAMC-Public Radio (Blair Horner)

"A dead watchdog?"
Albany Times Union (editorial)

September 19, 2023
"The battle for oversight in Albany has suffered a severe setback"
Buffalo News (editorial)

September 27, 2023
"Ethics commission meets after judge ruled its unconstituitonal"
Albany Times Union (Brendan Lyons)

September 27, 2023
"NY ethics watchdog eyes more state funding amid ethics freeze"
Spectrum New (Kate Lisa)

October 1, 2023
"Give NYers an ethics watchdog they can trust"
New York Post (editorial)

February 16, 2024
"New York Appeals Court Hears Arguments Over the Fate of the State's Ethics Panel"
AP -- US News (Michael Hill)   PBS

February 16, 2024
"Appellate court hears Cuomo challenge to fledgling ethics agency"
Albany Times Union (Dan Clark)

February 16, 2024
"Next on Cuomo's Rehabilitation Tour: Blowing Up a State Ethics Panel"
New York Times (Grace Ashford)

February 21, 2024
"New York State's Ethics Commission Facing Judicial Test"
Insurance Journal  (Michael Hill)

March 11, 2024
"NY Appellate Courts Mull Markedly Differing Lawsuits
Questioning State Ethics Watchdog
"
NYLJ (Brian Lee)

March 15, 2024
"Future of NY's ethics body nears"
Politico (Bill Mahoney)

April 8, 2024
"Fourth Department Hears Arguments in Lawsuit Against NY's Ethics Watchdog"
NYLJ (Brian Lee)

May 9, 2024
"New York Ethics Panel Violates State Constitution, Appeals Court Rules"
New York Times (Grace Ashford)

May 9, 2024
"Appellate court sides with Cuomo, ruling ethics panel is unconstitutional"
Albany Times Union (Brendan Lyon)

May 9, 2024
"Cuomo wins another court battle against New York's ethics watchdog"
Politico (Bill Mahoney)
 

May 9, 2024
"New York appeals court rules ethics commission
that pursued Cuomo was created unconstitutionally
"
AP (Michael Hill)   also Post-Star

May 9, 2024
"Appellate court agrees that state ethics commission is unconstitutional"
City & State (Rebecca Lewis)

May 10, 2024
"Common Cause blasts COELIG ruling as 'authoritarian'"
Spectrum (Susan Arbetter)

May 13, 2024
"Appeal court rules against NY ethics commission"
Press Republican (Alex Gault)

May 23, 2024
"Ethics commission's fate still in limbo"
Newsday

May 29, 2024
"Act now for a lasting ethics fix"
Daily Star (editorial)  -- Albany Times Union May 16th editorial

 

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