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The Commission on Judicial Nomination released its report to Gov. Andrew Cuomo with a list of seven lawyers to be considered for the position of the state’s next top judge. Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, who turned 70 this May, must ...

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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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WASHINGTON — In a case of interest to business and consumer groups, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared to be divided over a company’s effort to end a class-action lawsuit by offering the person who first sued everything he ...

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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 ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed troubled by a federal regulation backed by environmental groups that requires utilities to pay big electric customers who save energy during times of peak demand. The Obama administration and other supporters ...

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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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People serving life terms for murders they committed as teenagers were looking to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday for signals about whether they will have a chance to seek their freedom. But the 75-minute high court argument in the ...

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A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a lawsuit challenging the New York Police Department’s surveillance of Muslim groups in New Jersey after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, saying any resulting harm came from the city’s tactics, not the media’s ...

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Auburn City Court’s Drug and Alcohol Treatment Court has been awarded a $200,000 Bureau of Justice Assistance grant to provide case management services to heroin/opioid dependent participants. The money will also help decrease heroin/opioid abuse by participants and others in ...

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The intricacies of a state Constitutional convention will be discussed Monday when the League of Women Voters Rochester Metropolitan Area hosts a forum, beginning at 7 p.m. at the Asbury First United Methodist Church, 1050 East Ave., Rochester. The event ...

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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NEW YORK — Suing your bank or debt collector might be getting a whole lot easier. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is considering new regulations that would severely curtail a contentious practice called mandatory arbitration, which is when consumers are ...

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