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There may be no better place than Family Court to get a crash course in what ails society. All the social ills that plaque modern America — the latest drug trends, the debilitating effect of poverty, the results of untreated ...

Three witnesses who testified Thursday before a panel studying ways to improve legal services for indigent parents in Family Court described an overloaded, underfunded system stacked against parents struggling to keep custody of their children. Kate Woods, deputy director of ...

A Brooklyn photographer and videographer has filed a federal copyright infringement lawsuit against the company that operates WHAM-TV. The plaintiff, Dominique Hessert, is described in the four-page complaint as “a professional photographer and video journalist in the business of licensing ...

The former director of education and interpretation at the Seneca Park Zoo is suing the Seneca Park Zoo Society, claiming he was fired because of age discrimination. Since 2009, Bartholomew A. Roselli, 65, held the job “which involved serving as ...

The Monroe County Public Defender’s Office will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a reunion from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Inn on Broadway. “It’s going to be kind of a cocktail/grazing party,” said First Assistant Public Defender Jill ...

A federal judge has granted a motion from the city of Rochester, the Rochester Police Department and former Monroe County District Attorney Michael Green to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a man who claims his prosecution on a murder charge ...

The family of a man who committed suicide after a four-hour standoff with police is suing Monroe County, the Sheriff’s Office and former Sheriff Patrick O’Flynn, claiming officers mishandled the situation. Richard E. Briggs died from a self-inflicted gunshot on ...

The professional fate of suspended Rochester City Court Judge Leticia Astacio is now in the hands of the state’s highest court. The Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in Albany on Wednesday in an appeal of the state Commission on ...

Monroe County and the company that provided medical care to Monroe County Jail inmates until 2014 are being accused of ignoring a federal judge’s order to provide documents in a lawsuit filed by a former jail inmate. In February 2016, ...

A Rochester man has filed a lawsuit claiming a Rochester Police officer beat him up in September 2017. Vince Bradley Jr. claims that Sgt. Anthony Bongiovanni stopped his patrol car in front of Bradley’s Murray Street home and demanded that ...

The Animal Welfare Institute in Washington, D.C., and the Farm Sanctuary, in Watkins Glen, Schuyler County, are suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture to compel the agency to proactively post documents online regarding compliance with rules on the humane slaughter ...

A recent decision by Monroe County Court Judge John L. DeMarco highlights an increasingly common dilemma faced by judges asked to consider applications for judicial diversion programs from defendants in drug cases. The Aug. 14 decision lays out the case ...