A Brooklyn man known to neighbors as “the Flying Rabbi” for dispensing advice and blessings on the street cannot get damages from TV host Jimmy Kimmel and ABC for inserting into a comedy segment a video clip of him uploaded to YouTube without his consent, a New York state judge has ruled.

A decade after then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer dusted off the long-dormant Martin Act and deployed it to become the “sheriff of Wall Street,” the Court of Appeals has essentially deputized private citizens in holding for the first time that common-law tort claims are not pre-empted by the law.

A decade after then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer dusted off the long-dormant Martin Act and deployed it to become the “sheriff of Wall Street,” the Court of Appeals has essentially deputized private citizens in holding for the first time that common-law tort claims are not pre-empted by the law.

In the high-stakes litigation challenging its 2009 restructuring, MBIA has reached a major settlement with Morgan Stanley. But for some of MBIA’s Wall Street adversaries, the notion that MBIA had to rely on a loan to fund part of the settlement vindicates their claims that the insurer’s restructuring was a fraud.

The legal dispute between Occupy Wall Street protesters and New York City has been adjourned until Jan.