Six New York judges and lawyers have been recognized by the Green Bag, a national quarterly journal of legal scholarship, for exemplary legal writing in 2012. Among the 22 honorees were Second Circuit Judge José Cabranes, Eastern District Judge John Gleeson, New York University School of Law professor Arthur Miller, Columbia Law School professor Carol Sanger, visiting Columbia Law professor Charles Fried and New York attorney Bob Kohn, CEO of a music royalty-sharing firm.
Cabranes was honored for his opinion in Rivas v. Fischer, 687 F.3d 514, where the panel reversed the lower court and allowed a habeas petition to proceed even though it had been filed beyond the one-year time limit because the petitioner “raised a credible and compelling claim of actual innocence.”
