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Village of Walden v. Teamsters Local Union No. 445
Appellate Division Docket No. 2023-04708 Partner Brian D. Nugent successfully represented the Village of Walden in this appellate matter before the Appellate Division, Second Department. The Appellate Division reversed the decision of the Orange County Supreme Court which had denied the Village’s petition to stay arbitration. The Village sought to stay the arbitration on the…
Village of Monroe, et al. v. Town of Monroe, et al.
Orange County Supreme Index No. EF002602-2025 Partner Brian D. Nugent successfully defended the Town of Monroe in a duplicative proceeding filed by the Villages of Monroe and Harriman that challenged town-wide taxes relating to the Town’s acquisition of open space in the Town. The 2025 proceeding was substantially identical to a prior litigation that had…
McWhinney v. Rockland Cider Works, et al.
On September 29, 2025, Feerick Nugent MacCartney obtained summary judgment on behalf of a group of single-family homeowners whose lives and homes were upended by an unruly cidery business. In McWhinney v. Rockland Cider Works, et al., a group of 13 neighbors sought to enforce the Town Code against Rockland Cider Works, which responded by…
Hudson View Park v. Fishkill
On December 18, 2025, the NYS Court of Appeals issued a decision affirming the lower court determinations that a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) entered into by a 2017 Town Board violated a legal doctrine known as the term limits rule which prohibits a town board from binding a successor town board in matters of governance.…
Village of Monroe v. Town of Monroe
Partner Brian D. Nugent successfully defended the Town of Monroe in a case brought by two villages against the Town challenging the Town’s determination to tax the cost of the Town’s purchase of open space as a townwide charge. The villages filed a petition and complaint in the Orange County Supreme Court claiming that such costs could not…
Belya v. Metropolitan Hilarion
On March 31, 2025, a federal court ruled in favor of our client, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (“ROCOR”), confirming the Church’s ability to freely discuss and decide who should be its bishops. In Belya v. Metropolitan Hilarion, a defrocked priest sued his former church over a church disciplinary letter that questioned whether he met the qualifications…
111 S. Liberty LLC v. Douglas J. Schuetz, as Acting Commissioner of The Department of Planning, Rockland County, Rockland County Planning Board And Planning Board Of Town Of Stony Point
Index No. 030301/2024 Partner Brian D. Nugent successfully defended the Town of Stony Point Planning Board in an Article 78 and declaratory proceeding brought against the Town and the County of Rockland challenging a determination of the Town’s Planning Board. The Town Planning Board had denied Petitioner’s site plan application after a failure of the Town…
Feerick Nugent MacCartney PLLC successfully defends the Town of Fishkill in Developer Lawsuit
Feerick Nugent MacCartney (Partner Brian D. Nugent, Esq.) successfully defended the Town of Fishkill in a case recently decided by the Appellate Division, Second Department. The Appellate Division issued an Opinion and Order in favor of the Town of Fishkill in a long-standing dispute between the Town and Hudson View Park, a developer that was…
Feerick Nugent Maccartney Achieves Second Circuit Dismissal Of Federal Lawsuit Challenging Chestnut Ridge House Of Worship Law
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit District has upheld a lower court decision that dismissed CUPON’s (Citizens United to Protect Our Neighborhoods) federal lawsuit challenging the validity of the Village of Chestnut Ridge’s 2019 House of Worship Law. The law has been the subject of multiple lawsuits over the years, but…