Mr. Douglass graduated from Hofstra Law School in 2002 with honors and is licensed in all of the State Courts as well as the Southern and Northern federal Courts of New York.
To date, Mr. Douglass continues his practice as both a civil trial attorney and a crusader for children within the family law system.
Mr. Douglass was instrumental in removing a Town Court Judge from the bench who came to the “rescue” of a young woman whose family became homeless. The Judge put this young woman in one of his houses along with her younger sister and her parents into another one of his homes and told the young woman that giving his son fellatio showed his son that she loved him. Mr. Douglass sued the sitting Judge and brought the young woman to speak with the police. The Board of Examiners asked the Judge to come in and respond to questions under oath and, when he failed to show, the Judge was removed him from the bench.
In another contentious battle, Mr. Douglass obtained a Court Order for a child to be returned to her mother after her brother had forced her into a psych hospital and taken custody of her child.
“Mr. Douglass is in the midst of a law suit against an 1,100 megawatt power plant. This plant is one of the largest fossil fuel plants in the State of New York. Mr. Douglass represents four homeowners who reside directly adjacent to this plant. Mr. Douglass believes we need a lot more civic pressure against the fossil fuel industry and that if we can muster up more people power we will see much more alternative energy resources come to the fore.
Mr. Douglass represented a gun club which was adjacent to a majestic piece of property which was used by the public at large until one of the largest developers in the nation purchased it and proposed a compoiund for the one percent. Attorney Douglass scared the bejesus out of the developer when he filed a massive lawsuit against it seeking to have the environmental impact statement done all over again as the EIS that was being used was old and contemplated a very different proposal. Mr. Douglass received a lot of press over this and his client eventually settled for a state-of-the-art shooting range be built by the developer. Mr. Douglass sought to bring in new plaintiffs to carry the case forward so that the land would remain open to the public but those efforts were rebutted by the deep pocketed developer. Mr. Douglass once again had fought the David versus Goliath battle valiantly and kept his head up high.
Mr. Douglass was successful in ensuring that a proposal for a Mavis/Dunkin Donuts was not developed in a quaint community in upstate New York.
Attorney Douglass is also currently working to ensure that the largest development in the history of the State of New York is not developed as the proposed site is a critical area to ensure that the sole source aquifer on Long Island is not
Mr. Douglass has zealously represented clients against the Department of Social Services with success with non-findings resulting from such.
Furthermore, Mr. Douglass litigated against the US Postal service with a settlement award for his client. It should be noted that the USPS has one of the best legal offices in the nation- public or private considered.
Currently, he represents socialites and people in poverty and everything in between.
Mr. Douglass is currently part of a team working to reform the family court system and he has been quoted stating that the system needs to be “burned down.”
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Contact Joshua Douglass
Joshua A. Douglass, Esq
5166 route 22
Amenia NY 12501
Phone: 518-789-3636
E-mail: [email protected]