Nelson Rockefeller

• Inmates of the Attica Correctional Facility Et Al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Nelson Rockefeller, Governor, State of New York, Et Al., Defendants-Appellees., 453 F.2d 12 (2nd Cir. 1971)

Phylis Skloot Bamberger, William E. Hellerstein, New York City (Barbara Shapiro, The Legal Aid Society, New York City, Herman Schwartz, ACLU Prisoners...

• Federal Circuits

• Presidents in the Age of Twitter

But not so long ago, wife-collecting was regarded as over the line. Cats do it, dogs do it and even educated fleas are said to conduct serial impermanent romances. But presidents were held to a tougher moral standard. Newt Gingrich, the latest Republican flavor of the fortnight, is testing the theory that Americans have outgrown making such moral judgments about politicians and their amours. Nelson Rockefeller thought he was on his way to the White House in 1964 when he divorced his blue blood wife to marry a lady named Happy. This was a mighty scandal, as difficult as that may seem to our randy, rowdy and enlightened age, but Mr. Rockefeller was regaining traction in the primary campaign when Happy birthed their child on the eve of the California primary. Barry Goldwater won a narrow v...

• The Washington Times
• November 29, 2011

• Estate of Nelson A. Rockefeller, Deceased, Laurance S. Rockefeller, J. Richardson Dilworth and Donal C. O'Brien, Jr., Executors and Margaretta F. Rockefeller, Appellants. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Appellee., 762 F.2d 264 (2nd Cir. 1985)

William E. Jackson, New York City (Stuart E. Keebler, Joseph M. Persinger, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York City), for appellants. Glenn L. ...

• Federal Circuits

• Errors in State Revenue Estimates Growing in Size and Frequency

WASHINGTON, March 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- States have been making more serious errors in estimating their revenues during tough economic times, according to a new report by the Pew Center on the States and The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government. This has significant implications for policy makers who need to know how much money they will have to spend on programs and services as they grapple with severe budget shortfalls. The report, States' Revenue Estimating: Cracks in the Crystal Ball, found that in fiscal year 2009--the first of the ongoing budget crisis--half the states overestimated revenues by at least 10.2 percent. That equated to an unexpected shortfall of nearly $50 billion in personal income, corporate income and sales tax revenues. In a year when state ...

• U.S. Newswire
• March 01, 2011

• Inmates of Attica Correctional Facility Et Al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Nelson A. Rockefeller Et Al., Defendants-Appellees., 477 F.2d 375 (2nd Cir. 1973)

Robert L. Boehm, New York City (Morton Stavis, William M. Kunstler, Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Rattner, David Scribner, New York City, ...

• Federal Circuits

• Honored Fundraiser Learned From the Best

Jerald Wolfgang's weekend commendation for his career in hospital fundraising got him thinking about how some of his interest and expertise in charity work began: his early professional career as an advance man for Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, organizing a gala dinner with Frank Sinatra and astronauts and traveling in Latin America. You could see the poor. You could see people who needed help. It gives you a different picture when you see it in foreign countries. Then you see it locally," said Wolfgang, 73.

• Buffalo News
• September 26, 2011

• Michael Gerson: No to New Deal

It is an ideological milestone that the emerging Republican front- runner is as skeptical of the New Deal as anyone in his position since the New Deal. During the 1936 election, Republican nominee Alf Landon called Social Security "unjust, unworkable, stupidly drafted and wastefully financed." Now, according to Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme" that tells young workers a "monstrous lie." It is a "failure" that "we have been forced to accept for more than 70 years now. It is true that Barry Goldwater, during the 1964 campaign, said, "I think Social Security ought to be voluntary." But when his rival Nelson Rockefeller claimed this would be a "personal disaster to millions of senior citizens," Mr. Conservative backed down. Challenged on his proposal, Goldwater re...

• The Topeka Capital-Journal
• September 01, 2011

• Purchase College to Honor Douglas Durst and the Durst Organization with the Nelson A. Rockefeller Award November 12.

PURCHASE, N.Y. -- Purchase College will honor Douglas Durst and the Durst Organization with the Nelson A. Rockefeller Award for arts philanthropy and ...

• Business Wire
• October 31, 2007

• Akil Al-Jundi, Et Al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Vincent Mancusi, Karl Pfeil, Russell G. Oswald, Defendants-Appellants, the Estate of Nelson A. Rockefeller, Et Al., Defendants., 926 F.2d 235 (2nd Cir. 1991)

John H. Stenger, Buffalo, N.Y. (Kathy R. Lamb, Jaeckle, Fleischmann & Mugel, Buffalo, N.Y., on the brief), for defendant-appellant Oswald. Richard E....

• Federal Circuits

• Maine Artists' Works Bear the Weight of War

In January 2003, Colin Powell stood before reporters at a press conference at the United Nations to discuss the United States' decision to make war with Iraq. Behind him, a blue curtain covered a tapestry copy of Pablo Picasso's monumental anti-war epic "Guernica," a jarring 26-foot- wide painting. The tapestry copy of the 1937 original has hung in that spot near the entrance to the Security Council room since 1985. Commissioned by Nelson Rockefeller, the tapestry was the next-best thing to the original, which hangs in Picasso's native Spain.

• Portland Press Herald
• February 09, 2010