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Increasing interest in concussions is not just happening in sports, but highlights many legal concerns as well, which will be addressed in a new program Nov. 11 at The Rubin Center for Education. State Supreme Court Justice Richard A. Dollinger ...

The estate of a former plant owner will have to pay its current owners for any costs incurred so far and in the future to clean up an adjacent old Erie Canal site that is contaminated, unless the state relieves ...

A mother convicted of killing her infant daughter in 2001 by setting fire to their residence is trying to get her conviction overturned. Racheal Casey, 38, is represented on appeal by attorney Keir M. Weyble, a professor at Cornell Law ...

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Clarification is being sought from the state Court of Appeals on a rule requiring injury to someone in a case involving land issues be different from the general public at large. The Sierra Club, other environmental groups and village of ...

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Rochester attorney Steven V. Modica likes to tell people he was probably the most reluctant solo practitioner. “It wasn’t something I set out to do,” he said. That was 20 years ago, though, and Modica & Associates, Attorneys PLLC has ...

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The sex offender risk level of a Niagara Falls man will not be lowered because he felt he was unable to attend a hearing on the matter for fear of being beaten by corrections officers at the Attica Correctional Facility. ...

Class action status is being rejected for more than 1,900 Olean General Hospital patients who were notified in January 2013 the insulin injection pens used on them may have also been used on other patients. No one, according to the ...

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A former village justice in Seneca County was sentenced Tuesday to six months in the county jail for lying about being attacked with a toilet tank lid in August 2013, which resulted in convictions for insurance fraud and defrauding the ...

A second-degree murder charge will stand against a Buffalo man convicted on circumstantial evidence of firing the shot that killed another man sitting on his porch, waiting for a ride to work. The Appellate Division, Fourth Department on Friday unanimously ...

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An order of disbarment has been entered in the Appellate Division, Fourth Department against Syracuse attorney Wayne I. Ohl for violating a suspension order. Ohl was suspended by the court in April 2013 for two years for professional misconduct that ...

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A resisting arrest conviction has been dismissed against a Monroe County man initially charged with disorderly conduct for standing on a Rochester street corner. The Appellate Division, Fourth Department agreed with John C. Howard that a jury’s verdict was against ...

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An underlying robbery charge, used to convict a Buffalo man of murder, has been thrown out by the Appellate Division, Fourth Department. Now Brandon Harper’s lawyer is going to try to get two murder convictions dismissed because they are based ...

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