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As artificial intelligence data centers face mounting public opposition across New York State, developers and municipalities must navigate complex zoning disputes involving environmental concerns, infrastructure strain, and community resistance. This analysis explores strategic approaches for managing contentious AI data center projects, from environmental review processes to public engagement tactics that can transform opposition into productive dialogue.

Dismissals for lack of standing are routine in business divorce cases. Examples abound on this blog. Litigation over standing to sue takes an outsized role in business divorce cases for many reasons.

If Sisyphus were a judge, he'd be assigned the Fuks case. Fuks began on December 26, 1996. Fire up your mental time machine, travel back in time, and picture what was going on in your life those many years ago.

Some NYBD posts have staying power. Of the hundreds of posts on this site, my practice brings me back, over and over again, to a handful of familiar favorites.

Loyal readers of this blog may recall the powerful victory my firm's client won in 2021 in Farro v Schochet, where the Appellate Division...

Under New York's Electronic Signatures and Records Act, a person can electronically sign many types of documents that have legal significance (Technology Law §§ 301, § 304 |– 306).

While there is tremendous diversity from state to state when it comes to statutory and judge-made law in business divorce cases, business valuation principles...

We've recently written on a number of disputes arising out of posthumous transfers of corporate ownership interests, particularly where the transfer documents in question (often times, an estate planning device, e.g., a will or a trust instrument) ...

The Second Department reversed a trial court's summary denial of a dissolution petition for an auto body repair shop, holding that conflicting factual claims between a 25% minority shareholder and majority owner regarding employment termination, compensation cessation, and alleged fund misappropriation warranted an evidentiary hearing before determining whether judicial dissolution under BCL § 1104-a was appropriate.

As previously reported here on Tax Tracker in June, the School Tax Relief (STAR) program offered by New York State offers property tax relief to eligible homeowners.

Two recent Brooklyn Supreme Court decisions test the boundaries of shareholder oppression claims in New York, examining whether minority shareholders can pursue oppression remedies outside of formal dissolution proceedings and how procedural choices can fundamentally reshape business divorce litigation. These cases highlight the tension between procedural formalism and substantive justice in closely held business disputes.

John's of 12th Street in the East Village is one of Manhattan's oldest and most storied red-sauce Italian restaurants.

New York's appellate courts are breaking new ground in 2025.

New York courts are not in the vanguard when it comes to devising less drastic, alternative remedies in LLC judicial dissolution cases.

Is it the egos? The profits? The risk? The stress? The often poorly-done contracts? Some combination of all of the above? Hard to say, but real estate owners...

Just a few weeks ago, Frank McRoberts authored a post titled, "The Pick-Your-Partner Principle." It featured a more-than-decade...

It is not uncommon in the restaurant business for a restauranteur to partner with a silent-partner investor, i.e. the money guy. It's not uncommon for the restaurant partners...