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A Steuben County Court judge has overturned a lower court ruling that required a defendant to be present in court for a trial on a speeding ticket. It was the second time the lower court was overturned on the issue ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Nearly three dozen wrongly convicted felons have been exonerated over the past 30 years in Maryland, which — like most other states — allows individuals to be compensated for years spent behind bars. But only nine exonerees ...

A federal judge has reserved judgment on whether five people can testify for the prosecution that surveillance photos show the man accused of a fatal Xerox credit union robbery in 2003. The decision was released Friday by U.S. District Court ...

NEW YORK — After five years of investigations and protests, New York City’s police commissioner on Monday fired an officer involved in the 2014 chokehold death of an unarmed black man whose dying cries of “I can’t breathe” fueled a ...

Monroe County Health Commissioner Dr. Michael Mendoza visited the Monroe County Bar Association Friday to train a group of people to use Narcan to save a person suffering an opioid overdose. In the past 18 months or so, Mendoza has ...

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The American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates has approved a resolution creating the best practice guidelines for online legal document providers. The resolution urging online legal document providers to adhere to the guidelines was proposed to the ABA by the ...

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WASHINGTON — Two former U.S. Supreme Court clerks who married and worked for the Jones Day law firm allege in a new federal lawsuit that the firm’s parental-leave policies are discriminatory and that the husband was fired after he challenged ...

The Cayuga Nation and its federal representative Clint Halftown have filed a lawsuit against the Showtime television network and the writers and producers of the series “Billions,” claiming they were defamed in an episode of the show. The suit, filed ...

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ALBANY — The Roman Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts, schools and hospitals, and the late financier Jeffrey Epstein are some of the targets named in a flurry of sex abuse lawsuits filed Wednesday in New York as the state began ...

A group of LGBT video creators is accusing YouTube of discrimination by suppressing their content, restricting their ability to sell advertising and culling their subscribers, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday evening against the video site and its parent, ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has revived a lawsuit against Rochester Institute of Technology that had been dismissed a year earlier by U.S. District Court Judge Charles J. Siragusa. In August 2018, Siragusa dismissed the copyright ...

NEW YORK — He testified for O.J. Simpson’s defense, helped investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., hosted an HBO show and brought his pathology expertise to bear on celebrity deaths and police killings. ...