Jones assumed senior status on December 31, 2012, and subsequently retired from the court on January 4, 2013 to go into private practice.
[6] In February 2003, Jones affirmed the NYPD's decision not to issue permits to organizers of a planned mass march past the United Nations building in protest of the U.S. run-up to the Iraq War.
[8] Donna Lieberman, the executive director of the New York City Civil Liberties Union marked the denial of permit as an unprecedented refusal of the protesters' constitutional right of assembly.
In her testimony to the New York City Council Committee on Government Operations, Lieberman noted the instances of police violence and the civil rights violations that took place in the NYPD's enforcement of the denial-of-permit decision upheld by Jones.
[11] When Spyer died in 2009, Windsor owed over $363,000 in federal estate taxes, which she would not have had to pay had her spouse been of the opposite sex.
[citation needed] Rice received a 2-game suspension after a domestic violence incident left his then-girlfriend unconscious in the elevator after he struck her.
[19] In November, both the office of New York State Attorney General Letitia James and the defense in the civil case against the Trump Organization suggested Jones as an independent monitor to prevent future fraud by the company.