Beloved Bay Ridge Justice Arthur Schack dies at 70
Hon. New York State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Schack died Monday, May 2, at age 70.
The beloved Bay Ridge Judge presided over hundreds of civil cases each year, ranging from home foreclosures and medical malpractices to disputes between neighbors over parking spaces. Among his most famous cases was one in which a plaintiff tried to sue President Barack Obama, U.S. Sen. John McCain, House Speaker John Boehner and dozens of other national figures, charging them with fraud. Schack threw the case out.
Prior to becoming a judge, Schack was a lawyer for the Major League Baseball Players Association for 16 years, where he interacted with ballplayers and their agents. Before that, he was a teacher at Bay Ridge High School, now called the High School of Telecommunications and Technology.