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Medical testing sector awaits Supreme Court clarity on patents
Medical companies that develop tests to diagnose neurological disorders, heart disease risk and fetal abnormalities have been in legal limbo since a 2012 Supreme Court ruling that limited the patenting of such tests, finding they occurred in nature and were not invented. The high court may signal as soon as Friday whether it will revisit […]
Western New Yorkers urge judge to ‘throw book’ at ex-congressman Collins
Dozens of New Yorkers in former Congressman Chris Collins’s upstate district urged a judge to jail him for a long time following his guilty plea to insider trading. “Lock him up and throw away the key,” wrote Collins’s former constituent Bob Lonsberry. U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick released the letters publicly on Wednesday – a […]
Justice Department winds down Clinton-related inquiry once championed by Trump. It found nothing of consequence.
WASHINGTON – A Justice Department inquiry launched more than two years ago to mollify conservatives clamoring for more investigations of Hillary Clinton has effectively ended with no tangible results, and current and former law enforcement officials said they never expected the effort to produce much of anything. John Huber, the U.S. attorney in Utah, was […]
Video from Epstein’s first apparent suicide attempt lost due to ‘technical errors,’ prosecutors say
It was lost, then it was found, and now it is gone. So goes the saga of video footage from outside the jail cell of multimillionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, recorded on the day he may have first tried, but failed, to kill himself. Federal prosecutors said in December they were unable to locate the […]
Tool used for searches at law firms may be at risk
WASHINGTON – Last spring, more than a dozen federal agents spent six hours searching the law firm of a prominent Maryland attorney, sweeping up thousands of emails, files and other documents in a money laundering and obstruction investigation. A federal appeals court panel subsequently declared the government’s review of the seized material invalid in a […]
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she is cancer-free, according to report
Liberals fearing yet another Supreme Court vacancy for President Donald Trump to fill have some cause for relief: It doesn’t appear that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is going anywhere anytime soon. The 86-year-old justice told CNN this week she is still “cancer-free,” six months after undergoing radiation to remove a cancerous tumor on her pancreas. […]
Too late to ratify Equal Rights Amendment, Justice Department says
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Justice Department says the Equal Rights Amendment can no longer be ratified because its deadline expired decades ago, throwing a barrier into the path of activists who want the amendment enacted if Virginia’s new, majority Democratic legislature approves it. The opinion from the Office of Legal Counsel was dated Monday and […]
Microsoft releases chat scanner to detect child sex predators
Microsoft will share a tool it’s been using on its Xbox gaming service to scan online text chats and detect adults seeking to groom and exploit children for sexual purposes. Codenamed Project Artemis, the technique combs through historical messages and looks for indicative patterns and characteristics before assigning a probability rating. That can then be […]
CNN settles libel lawsuit with Covington Catholic student
CNN agreed to settle a libel lawsuit filed by the family of a Covington, Kentucky, teenager who gained national attention during an encounter with a Native American activist on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington last year. The network said on Tuesday that it settled the suit with the family of Nicholas Sandmann, […]
FBI asks Apple for help cracking Florida gunman’s iPhones
The FBI is pressing Apple for help opening iPhones that belonged to the Saudi military student who killed three people last month at a naval base in Pensacola, Florida, signaling a potential revival of the fight between the federal government and Silicon Valley over encryption technology. On Monday, FBI General Counsel Dana Boente wrote a […]
Weinstein judge refuses to delay New York trial after lawyers say Los Angeles case will taint jury pool
A Manhattan judge overseeing Harvey Weinstein’s criminal sexual assault trial refused to delay the case in light of what the defense says is a prejudicial news cycle due to new charges against the entertainment mogul that were filed Monday in Los Angeles. Justice James Burke said the new charges brought against Weinstein were “next to […]
Bolton’s willingness to testify in Trump’s trial ramps up pressure on Senate Republicans
WASHINGTON – John Bolton complicated Senate Republicans’ impeachment strategy on Monday, declaring his willingness to testify and upping the pressure on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his party to summon the former national security adviser as a witness in President Donald Trump’s trial. Bolton last fall rebuffed House impeachment investigators’ entreaties to testify about [...]
Case Digests
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Review of another judge’s actions: Opinion 22-153
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Charitable contributions: Opinion 22-150
- Second Circuit – Class action settlement: Moses v. The New York Times Company
- Fourth Department – Breach of contract: Hausrath Landscape Maintenance Inc. v. Caravan Facilities Management LLC
- Second Circuit – New York Child Victim’s Act: Kane v. Mount Pleasant CSD; Coe v. Eastport Union Free School
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Appointing law clerk: Opinion 22-149
- Fourth Department – Bill of particulars: Harris v. Rome Memorial Hospital, et al.
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Accusations against co-judge: Opinion 22-148
- Fourth Department – Medicaid: Washington Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Home v. NYS Dept. of Health
- Fourth Department – Criminal possession of a firearm: People v. Wilson
- Fourth Department – Promoting prostitution: People v. Watts
- Second Circuit – Class certification: Arkansas Teachers Retirement System V. Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Law News
- Fourth Department affirms $400K judgment in contract dispute
- Could legislation limiting non-compete agreements kick off a new era of workplace disputes?
- Fourth Department affirms decision in NY property dispute
- Greenlight Networks selects Buffalo-based attorney as general counsel
- Barclay Damon hires attorney Matt Smith
- Rochester man sues Geneseo police, alleging false arrest, assault
- The Daily Record’s Power List for Intellectual Property 2023
- NY ethics panel says judges can join NRA
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