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LaShana D. Boose will remain on the ballot for the Sept. 10 primary for a seat on the Rochester City Council, representing the city’s Northwest District. A challenge to her designating petitions by Molly Clifford, a fellow Democrat running against ...
Read More »BNY Mellon pays $14.8M to settle charges on foreign fund
WASHINGTON — Wall Street bank BNY Mellon has agreed to pay $14.8 million to settle federal civil charges of attempting to influence officials of a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund by giving internships to their family members. It was the ...
Read More »Buzard elected to ABA board
A. Vincent Buzard, co-leader of the Harris Beach Appellate Practice Group, is serving on the American Bar Association’s Board of Governors. He was elected during the 2015 annual meeting in Chicago July 30-Aug. 4, 2015 and is one of ...
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Read More »Competency of man accused of supporting terrorism questioned
BUFFALO — The lawyer representing a New York man accused of making plans to join the Islamic State group in Syria said Monday he is concerned about the man’s mental competency and received a federal judge’s permission for an evaluation. ...
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Read More »Ruling to allow college athletes to unionize is thrown out
The National Labor Relations Board on Monday blocked an effort by Northwestern University football players to form the nation’s first college athletes’ union, dealing a setback to a labor movement that could have transformed the game. In a unanimous decision, ...
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Read More »Family believes Stewart lost temper in fatal crash
The parents of a sprint car driver struck and killed last year by Tony Stewart believe a wrongful death lawsuit is the only way to hold the NASCAR star accountable. Pamela and Kevin Ward Sr. said Friday on “Good Morning ...
Read More »Roemer chosen magistrate judge for WDNY
The district judges of the Western District of New York have unanimously agreed to appoint Michael J. Roemer as a magistrate judge for the Western District of New York. Roemer will fill the seat vacated by the Hon. Hugh B. ...
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Read More »Chair, vice chair appointed to commission
Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman on Monday announced the appointments of former Appellate Division, Second Department, Associate Justice Barry Cozier as chair, and Cornell School of Law Professor W. Bradley Wendel, an expert in the field of legal ethics, as vice ...
Read More »Grand jury indicts man on terror charges
BUFFALO (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted a 44-year-old Buffalo-area man on charges that allege he attempted to support a foreign terrorist group. U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced Thursday that the jury returned a two-count indictment ...
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Read More »Conn. bars execution of 11 death row inmates
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Three years after Connecticut abolished the death penalty for any future crimes, the state’s highest court on Thursday spared the lives of all 11 men who were already on death row when the law took effect, ...
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Read More »Outlawing impolite behavior at work: an ominous trend
On any given workday, we all deal with a wide spectrum of human behavior. At one time or another, we have all been on the giving and receiving ends of idiosyncratic — even uncomfortable — workplace conduct. A recent trend ...
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Read More »Justice Kennedy gives hope to foes of solitary confinement
Prison reform advocates who have spent years campaigning against solitary confinement are counting on a powerful new ally in their quest to end the practice — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Earlier this summer, Justice Kennedy took the unusual ...
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