Businessman admits to $6M investment scheme
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 21, 2012
Tags: businessman, guilty plea, investment scheme
James E. Rotterman, 33, of Orchard Park, has pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to wire fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both. Rotterman also pleaded guilty to filing false income tax returns, punishable by up to three years in prison, [...]
Harvard Law School graduate sues school over plagiarism accusations 
By Dolan Media Newswires
POSTED: May 21, 2012
Tags: graduate, Harvard Law School, plagiarism
Like a lot of young lawyers these days, Megon Walker is out of work. But what makes her stint with unemployment different than most is that the Ohio native claims her alma mater, Harvard Law School, is to blame. Life was looking good for Walker in 2009. With just months to go before graduation, the [...]
Town plans appeal of fed decision on prayers
By Denise M. Champagne
POSTED: May 21, 2012
Tags: Greece town board, prayer at meetings
The town of Greece can continue having opening prayers at its monthly Town Board meetings, but guidelines will be established as to what will be appropriate. Two town residents, Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens, sued the town in federal court, claiming its practice limited its invocations to Christianity in violation of the Establishment Clause of [...]
IOLA Fund announces 2012 grant recipients
By Todd Etshman
POSTED: May 21, 2012
Tags: 2012 grant recipients, IOLA fund
The Interest on Lawyer Account Fund of the State of New York has announced its 2012 grant awards to legal service organizations across the state, including seven from western New York. The fund distributed $22 million in grants to support programs that provide free legal services to low-income residents of New York state, up slightly [...]
Bankruptcy judgeships get temporary extension
By Dolan Media Newswires
POSTED: May 17, 2012
Tags: bankruptcy judgeships, Congress, temporary extension
Congress has passed legislation that will temporarily save dozens of bankruptcy judgeships in 14 states and Puerto Rico from expiring. The Temporary Bankruptcy Judgeships Extension Act of 2012, H.R. 4967, which is expected to be signed into law by President Barack Obama, extends for an additional five years 29 temporary judgeships previously created by Congress. [...]
Buffalo cop charged with defrauding program
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 17, 2012
Tags: Buffalo police officer, charged, mail and health care fraud
Patrick S. O’Mara, 50, of Buffalo, is charged by with mail fraud and health care fraud, U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced Thursday. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine or both. Assistant U.S. Attorney John E. Rogowski reported O’Mara, a Buffalo police officer, was placed on [...]
RBBA releases judicial evaluations
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 17, 2012
Tags: evaluations, Judicial Candidate, Rochester Black Bar Association
The Rochester Black Bar Association has completed its evaluation of the 2012 judicial candidates. As with prior years, rating options include a qualification rating and a rating for racial/diversity sensitivity. The qualification scale includes the following options: HQ-highly qualified, Q-qualified and U-unqualified. The racial/diversity sensitivity scale includes: HS-high sensitivity, MS-moderate sensitivity and LS-low sensitivity. Accordingly, [...]
Fate of ‘uninsurables’ hinges on U.S. Supreme Court
By The Associated Press
POSTED: May 17, 2012
Tags: health care law, U.S. supreme court, uninsurables
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Cancer patient Kathy Watson voted Republican in 2008 and believes the government has no right telling Americans to get health insurance. Nonetheless, she says she’d be dead if it weren’t for President Barack Obama’s health care law. Now the Florida small businesswoman is worried the U.S. Supreme Court will strike down her [...]
Lippman discusses his job, threats to the judiciary
By Denise M. Champagne
POSTED: May 17, 2012
Tags: Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, court reforms, webcast
A judge’s life experiences come into play in the cases they decide, according to New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman. “We look at so many issues,” he said late Wednesday afternoon via a live webcast on court reforms, broadcast from the Unified Court System’s website. Judge Lippman said the judges on the state Court [...]
Ex-Syracuse hoops coach’s wife: Life is ruined
By The Associated Press
POSTED: May 16, 2012
Tags: basketball coach, lawsuit, Syracuse
GENEVA (AP) — The wife of fired Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine claimed Wednesday that ESPN maliciously trampled her reputation by broadcasting salacious stories about her and about claims that her husband molested ball boys. Laurie Fine held a news conference Wednesday and threatened to file a libel lawsuit in federal court against [...]
Sotomayor tells NYU graduates to dream big
By The Associated Press
POSTED: May 16, 2012
Tags: graduation, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, NYU
NEW YORK — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor came home to the Bronx Wednesday for New York University’s commencement ceremony at Yankee Stadium, marveling at the circumstances leading to her return. “This is awesome,” Sotomayor told the 8,000 graduates in purple robes cheering from the stands behind home plate. Sotomayor, who grew up in [...]
Judge visits teen court
By Todd Etshman
POSTED: May 16, 2012
Tags: Judge Judith S. Kaye, juvenile justice reform, teen court, The Center for Youth
Former Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye met with Rochester Teen Court and The Center for Youth participants, volunteers and administrators on Tuesday to discuss their experience and her support of juvenile justice reform. Many of the teen court student attorneys and judges expressed a desire to follow in Judge Kaye’s footsteps as a lawyer, as [...]
