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Ruling referred to the flag as a ‘symbol inflaming the already strained relationship between the parties’ in custody battle ( Scott Olson/Getty Images)
A New York district court ruled that a woman must remove a rock with a Confederate flag painted on it from her driveway, or may find it becomes a factor in a custody battle for her mixed-race child.
Justices in an appellate division of the state’s second-highest court in Albany ruled unanimously in a 5-0 decision that a couple would retain joint custody of their child.
However, the woman has until 1 June to remove the rock or, according to the court’s ruling, it could play a role in “any future best interests analysis” regarding the child, who was born in 2014 and attends school in Dryden, east of Ithaca.
In a unanimous 5-0 ruling, justices in the Appellate Division of New York State s Supreme Court s Third Department, allowed a couple to retain joint custody of their biracial child but ordered the
Get Rid of Confederate Rock or Risk Custody of Multiracial Daughter, Court Tells Woman
Timothy Bella, Washington Post, May 7, 2021
A rock near a woman’s driveway in upstate New York could affect the custody case of her multiracial daughter. But it’s not the rock itself that’s potentially risking a mother’s custody of her child. It’s what’s decorated on the rock: The Confederate flag.
Appellate justices with the New York Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a Tompkins County woman to remove the Confederate flag-painted rock or risk a “change in circumstances” to the child custody case of her young daughter.
Justices suspend Bethlehem lawyer they say ignored civil probe
Roy Nestler argued he cooperated with investigation and should not have been benched
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Appellate justices in Albany on Thursday indefinitely suspended Roy Nestler, a Bethlehem attorney, from practicing law, saying he failed to cooperate with a legal watchdog committee’s investigation into a client’s complaint. (Skip Dickstein / Times Union)SKIP DICKSTEIN
ALBANY – Appellate justices in Albany on Thursday indefinitely suspended a Bethlehem attorney from practicing law, saying he failed to cooperate with a watchdog committee’s investigation into a client’s complaint.
Roy Nestler, a lawyer practicing since 2001 who worked in criminal and civil law, failed to provide bank statements requested by a grievance committee that examines complaints against lawyers, the ruling said.
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