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Two new laws designed to secure personal information collected by businesses will take effect next year. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect Jan. 1. And New York’s Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act starts ...

Attorneys Karlee Bolaños and William Lowe had reached a level of success that many lawyers would consider the pinnacle of a career, yet they have taken a major risk to fulfill a personal dream. Although both had achieved partner status ...

The mother of a woman who committed suicide while being held in the Monroe County Jail has filed a lawsuit against the county. On Sept. 4, 2018, Sitarah Daniels hanged herself with a blanket tied to the bars of her ...

A federal judge has dismissed some parts of a lawsuit filed by a man who claims he was not given proper medical care when he was incarcerated in the Monroe County Jail. In a decision filed Monday, Chief U.S. District ...

A Minnesota woman is suing an Onondaga County man for infecting her with herpes. In May 2017, the couple met in Minnesota and began a sexual relationship, according to the 11-page complaint. Before having sex with the defendant, the plaintiff ...

State officials have gone to court to collect fines imposed against an Ontario County company and force the defunct business to pay money awarded to a Wayne County woman who won a discrimination claim against the firm. The New York ...

In a split decision, New York state’s highest court upheld a lower court ruling that dismissed a lawsuit filed against the state by a prison inmate who was brutally beaten and seriously injured by a guard in an unprovoked attack. ...

An Ontario County man is suing his ex-fiancée to make her return a 2.4-carat diamond ring worth more than $30,000. Jeremy Meisenzahl proposed to Lindsay Conyard, of Livingston County, on Oct. 6, 2017 at Meisenzahl’s barn, in front of several ...

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A Hilton Central School District family is suing the district for negligence over a bullying incident that was allegedly recorded. Rochester attorney Jeffrey Wicks file the complaint Wednesday in state Supreme Court for Debbie Schaeffer, the mother of an elementary ...

A federal judge late Wednesday halted all four scheduled federal executions, finding that Attorney General William Barr’s July proposal that sought to resume the death penalty after a 16-year moratorium is at odds with federal law. The four men were ...

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A local attorney representing state prison inmates has won an appeal before a federal appeals court that restored a consent decree issued in 1982 to ensure the inmates get adequate medical care. Brian Marc Feldman, an attorney with Harter Secrest ...

Two attorneys have been disciplined by the Appellate division of state Supreme Court, Fourth Department. Joseph C. Watt Jr., who was already disbarred, was fined $1,000 for contempt, and Noel Palmer Simpson was disbarred, according to decisions released Friday. Watt ...