A judge has stayed an order for President Donald Trump to testify in a legal dispute brought by protesters who say Trump’s security guards assaulted them during his campaign. New York Judge Doris Gonzalez previously called Trump’s testimony “indispensable” and ...
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Interviewing Chief Justice John Roberts during an event at Manhattan’s Temple Emanu-El on Monday night, Rabbi Mark Lipson offered a critique of the legislative and executive branches that counterbalance Roberts’ court. “Every time I attend a case, I walk away ...
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In the past four years, taxpayers in states trying to restrict abortion access have paid almost $10 million in attorney fees for abortion providers. That price tag is likely to keep growing as more abortion restrictions are challenged, including three ...
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A New York City judge has ordered that President Donald Trump sit for videotaped testimony in a lawsuit brought by protesters who say they were assaulted by Trump’s security guards during the 2016 campaign. The Bronx-based judge, Doris Gonzalez, wrote ...
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Willie Nelson has famously said a country song is “three chords and the truth.” It might not be so simple anymore. A flood of lawsuits is threatening to upend that concept, making trivial similarities in songs the basis for a ...
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A New York police officer who worked an off-duty job as a bodyguard for the wife of drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán faces felony drug charges after he was accused of accepting cash in exchange for police protection in ...
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Before he was wrongfully incarcerated as one of the “Central Park Five,” Kevin Richardson had a dream for his future: playing basketball for Syracuse University’s Orangemen and performing the trumpet in the school’s marching band. As a child in the ...
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WASHINGTON – In many ways, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is already larger than life, with an adoring fandom, a rap-influenced nickname bestowed by admirers and two motion pictures depicting her life. But now, the expression is becoming quite ...
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WASHINGTON – Lawyers for Andrew McCabe asserted Thursday that the District of Columbia U.S. Attorney’s Office is refusing to say whether a grand jury declined to indict the former acting FBI director, and complained of inappropriate media leaks they said ...
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In 2017, at a gala luncheon hosted at the opulent Cipriani 42nd Street in New York, Minda Harts found herself seated next to a recruiter for corporate board positions. Over cocktails and a plated fish entree, the two talked about ...
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When the National Rifle Association needed more legal firepower in New York state last year, the gun rights group brought aboard an unlikely lawyer: a Democrat who had no experience in Second Amendment litigation. By this spring, William Brewer had ...
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In 2008, as Purdue Pharma was searching for a new chief executive, Richard Sackler received a memo from an adviser. “In the event that a favorable [recapitalization] deal cannot be structured during 2008, the most certain way for the owners ...
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