The Candid Review: A Blog About Appeals

Eric Longmire Petitions United State Supreme Court in Case With Warshaw Berstein

Whether the State Appellate Division wrongfully denied Petitioner’s Motion for Leave to Appeal when sua sponte and without notice to Petitioner, and without providing him an opportunity to respond, it determined that Petitioner failed to establish a prima facie case of employment discrimination against his former employer. Longmire Petitions the US Supreme Court in a case with Warshaw Berstein, and the Petition is attached here: PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI United States Supreme Court

New York Court of Appeals Opinion

The second question for review in the petition is:

Whether the State Appellate Division erred in affirming sua sponte and without notice to Petitioner, and without providing him an opportunity to respond, the decision and order of the motion court in dismissing Petitioner’s counterclaim for legal malpractice against the Respondent.