Rory Lancman was born and raised in Queens, where he has lived in what
is now the 25th Assembly District for thirty-five years. He is a graduate of New York
City Public School 164, Parsons Junior High School, Hillcrest High
School, Queens College and Columbia Law School.
Prior to his
election to the Assembly in 2006, Lancman served on Community Board 8
for over sixteen years, chairing first the Aging Committee and then the
Youth & Education Committee. For five years he chaired the Queens
Hospital Center Community Advisory Board, during which time he led the
community's successful fight to rebuild the hospital and prevent its
privatization. Additionally, Assemblyman Lancman was vice president of
the Flushing Heights Civic Association, a board member of the Queens
Jewish Community Council, a board member and chair of the legislative
committee of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, a board
member of the Brandeis Bar Association, a New York City Civil Court
Small Claims Arbitrator and a volunteer coach in
the Auburndale Soccer League. Assemblyman Lancman served in New York’s
own 42nd Infantry Division from 1988 to 1992, where he rose to the rank
of First Lieutenant.
Rory Lancman
lives in Hillcrest, Queens, with his wife and their three children.
Requires that, in actions to enforce a money judgment,
applications to assert a mistake of fact in supreme court be
made by order to show cause or motion on notice to the creditor
in the same action in which the order or judgment sought to be
enforced was entered, as opposed to instituting a new action
entirely.
Protects the free speech rights of
New Yorkers by barring the prosecution of barring their
prosecution in the courts of countries that do not have the same
free speech protections.
Extends New York City's authority to reduce or eliminate liens
for municipally financed repairs
on derelict
properties managed by a city appointed administrator.
