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Three witnesses who testified Thursday before a panel studying ways to improve legal services for indigent parents in Family Court described an overloaded, underfunded system stacked against parents struggling to keep custody of their children. Kate Woods, deputy director of ...

A Brooklyn photographer and videographer has filed a federal copyright infringement lawsuit against the company that operates WHAM-TV. The plaintiff, Dominique Hessert, is described in the four-page complaint as “a professional photographer and video journalist in the business of licensing ...

After 11 years, 150 public meetings and well over a million dollars in legal fees for all parties, Mark IV Enterprises says a judge’s ruling will finally allow construction on Westport Crossing Residential Community in the Village of Pittsford to ...

The former director of education and interpretation at the Seneca Park Zoo is suing the Seneca Park Zoo Society, claiming he was fired because of age discrimination. Since 2009, Bartholomew A. Roselli, 65, held the job “which involved serving as ...

Matrimonial attorneys across the country are reporting a significant increase in the number of prenuptial agreements being sought these days, which many say is due to a rising popularity of such contracts among younger generations. A recent survey of the ...

WASHINGTON — Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee brushed aside a flurry of Democratic attempts to delay the consideration of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday, sticking with a schedule that could see him confirmed by Oct. 1. Democratic ...

The Monroe County Public Defender’s Office will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a reunion from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Inn on Broadway. “It’s going to be kind of a cocktail/grazing party,” said First Assistant Public Defender Jill ...

Standing between Donald Trump and Robert Mueller is a little-known Florida lawyer who is leading high-stakes negotiations over whether the president will confront questioning from the special counsel’s investigators. Jane Raskin, who was hired by Trump in April, spent most ...

A federal judge has granted a motion from the city of Rochester, the Rochester Police Department and former Monroe County District Attorney Michael Green to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a man who claims his prosecution on a murder charge ...

SALEM, Ore. — The discovery of a black Labrador named Lucy led to the unraveling of a criminal case Monday against an Oregon man who had begun serving a 50-year prison sentence. Joshua Horner, a plumber from the central Oregon ...

President Donald Trump’s tweets have been increasingly popping up in court cases, and their latest cameo comes in the proceedings involving the deadliest terrorism case in New York City since Sept. 11. Defense lawyers for the man charged in the ...

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The family of a man who committed suicide after a four-hour standoff with police is suing Monroe County, the Sheriff’s Office and former Sheriff Patrick O’Flynn, claiming officers mishandled the situation. Richard E. Briggs died from a self-inflicted gunshot on ...