A federal judge has dismissed parts of a lawsuit against the city of Rochester and several police officers accused of false arrest, excessive force and violation of civil rights. The lawsuit filed in March 2017 initially made 17 claims against ...
Read More »MCBA Holiday Party celebrates the local judiciary
The Memorial Art Gallery was the location of this year’s Bench and Bar Holiday Party for the Monroe County Bar Association held on Thursday, Dec. 5. The short program mid-evening was primarily to recognize the many local judges in attendance. ...
Read More »Prosecutors accuse Weinstein of mishandling ankle monitor
NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein violated his bail conditions by mishandling his electronic ankle monitor, which left his whereabouts unrecorded for hours at a time, a New York prosecutor argued Friday. Prosecutor Joan Illuzzi made the claim at a pretrial ...
Read More »Hundreds of lawyers share their own abortion stories with U.S. Supreme Court ahead of landmark case
As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear a new landmark abortion case, hundreds of lawyers and legal professionals who have had the procedure filed an amicus brief on Monday, in support of overturning a restrictive Louisiana law. The 368 ...
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Read More »IRS touts 91 percent conviction rate for 2019 tax crime cases
The Internal Revenue Service has a message for tax criminals: “We will not stop in our pursuit.” There was a 91.2% conviction rate for tax criminal cases in 2019 — a figure IRS officials vow to improve in coming years ...
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Read More »Trump asks Supreme Court to review decision granting Congress access to his financial records
WASHINGTON – A lower-court ruling giving a congressional committee access to President Donald Trump’s financial records would usher in a new wave of political warfare in times of divided government, the president’s lawyers said in a brief filed Thursday. Warning ...
Read More »Administration drops plan to require facial scans for citizens entering or leaving U.S.
Officials at the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that they were dropping a proposal that would have required citizens to have their faces scanned when entering or leaving the United States. Reports this week that U.S. Customs and Border ...
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Read More »Uber reports more than 3,000 sexual assaults on 2018 rides
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Uber, as part of a long anticipated safety report, revealed that more than 3,000 sexual assaults were reported during its U.S. rides in 2018. That figure includes 235 rapes across the company’s 1.3 billion rides last ...
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Read More »California data security law to have widespread impact
Two new laws designed to secure personal information collected by businesses will take effect next year. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect Jan. 1. And New York’s Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act starts ...
Read More »Dinolfo named coordinating judge for treatment courts
State Supreme Court Justice Craig J. Doran, administrative judge of the Seventh Judicial District, has announced the appointment of Monroe County Court Judge Vincent Dinolfo as district-wide coordinating judge for treatment courts for the Seventh Judicial District. The current coordinating ...
Read More »Hundreds of lawyers share abortion stories with Supreme Court ahead of landmark case
As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear a new landmark abortion case, hundreds of lawyers and legal professionals who have had the procedure filed an amicus brief on Monday, in support of overturning a restrictive Louisiana law. The 368 ...
Read More »2 Russians charged in multimillion-dollar malware scheme
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department unsealed charges Thursday against the alleged leader and an administrator of a Russian cyber-criminal gang that U.S. officials say developed and distributed malware used to steal at least $100 million from banks and other financial ...
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