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Officials: Dredging would help bay businesses
Storm surges — including debris and silt pushed in as a result of Hurricane Sandy in 2012 — have created a traffic jam of sorts in the channel connecting Lake […]
Gay, transgender workers gain US bias protection
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday ordered employment protection for gay and transgender employees working for the federal government and for companies holding federal contracts, telling advocates he embraced […]
Obama to sign orders protecting gay employees
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to sign executive orders Monday prohibiting discrimination against gay and transgender workers in the federal government and its contracting agencies, without a new exemption […]
Asserting dubious patents for strategic reasons
While everyone has been fixated on patent trolls, experts say a different breed of abusive intellectual-property litigants have been making a comeback: businesses that assert dubious patents for strategic […]
New program supports national priority
Monroe Community College has developed a one-year homeland security certificate program to prepare individuals to effectively prevent and respond to a broad range of incidents — from cyberattacks and acts […]
GOP, Dems fight over legality of suing Obama
WASHINGTON (AP) — Constitutional lawyers backing a planned House Republican lawsuit against President Barack Obama told a congressional committee Wednesday that the action is justified because Obama has exceeded his […]
NLRB ruling spurs concerns of bottleneck
Lawyers say a June 26 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that struck down President Obama’s 2012 recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board threatens to invalidate hundreds of […]
NY senators on letter for open Internet
The Federal Communications Commission is being asked to reclassify the transmission component of broadband Internet access as a telecommunications service under Title II of the Telecommunications Act. In a letter […]
Citigroup to pay $7B in subprime probe
WASHINGTON — Citigroup agreed Monday to pay $7 billion to settle a federal investigation into its handling of risky subprime mortgages, admitting to a pattern of deception that Attorney General […]
Atheist to open Greece town meeting; top court OK’d prayers
GREECE — An atheist is set to deliver the invocation at a town board meeting in a community whose leaders won a U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the right to […]
Funds granted for Fisher nurse practitioner program
A $335,235 federal grant has been awarded for St. John Fisher College’s Wegmans School of Nursing training program in Rochester. The program, called the “Primary Care Family Nurse Practitioner Traineeship […]
EEOC guidance attracts renewed scrutiny
WASHINGTON — Two years after a guidance warning employers against the overly-broad use of criminal background checks to screen potential new hires was issued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity […]
Case Digests
- Fourth Department – Ineffective assistance of counsel: People v. Thanthima
- Second Circuit – Sentencing: United States v. Dralle
- Fourth Department – Ineffective assistance of counsel: People v. Serrano
- Second Circuit – Habeas Corpus: Brown v. James
- Fourth Department – Comptroller authority: Scanlon v. Miller-Williams
- Fourth Department – Confidential witness: People v. Sanchez
- Second Circuit – Interest-on-escrow accounts: Cantero v. Bank of America, N.A.; Hymes v. Bank of America, N.A.
- Fourth Department – Relation back doctrine: Poindexter v. The State of New York
- Fourth Department – Double jeopardy: People v. Royal
- Fourth Department – Real property claims — Summary judgment Penn v. Rochester Rev Holdings, LLC
- Second Circuit – Breach of lease agreement: Delsha 60 Ninth, LLC v. Free People of PA LLC
Law News
- Driver who caused fatal MVA sued by victim’s mother
- NY Court of Appeals resolves Appellate Division inconsistency
- Oneida County attorney disbarred after Trump pardon
- New trial ordered in child sex abuse case
- Rochester, Monroe County to pay $1.75M to officer blinded in stabbing
- Drug conviction reversed over faulty indictment
- Phillips Lytle names new Rochester office leader
- WNY nursing home fraud settlement could total $9M
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