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A group of young Americans who have spent nearly four years trying to compel the federal government to take action on climate change found themselves back in court Tuesday, arguing that their unprecedented lawsuit should move forward. And the Trump ...

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A lawsuit has been filed against Monroe County by a man with epilepsy who claims he did not received proper medical care while incarcerated in the Monroe County Jail. The plaintiff, Delvern Duran, “is disabled and suffers from a seizure ...

A judge in Wayne County has resigned for statements he made at a Wolcott Village Board meeting. Scott Stone, a justice in the town of Butler and the village of Wolcott, stepped down after being charged by the New York ...

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WASHINGTON – Justice Clarence Thomas said Monday that he has “no idea” where rumors started that he was going to retire from the Supreme Court this summer. Thomas, 70, did not actually say during a conversation before the Supreme Court ...

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WASHINGTON – The mere act of yelling an expletive at a police officer is constitutionally protected speech and not grounds for arrest, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The decision by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...

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In a decision expected to send a chill through the booming stem-cell industry, a federal judge ruled in favor of the Food and Drug Admininstration Monday in a lawsuit against a Florida-based stem cell company whose treatments have blinded at ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York would be the first state to ban the declawing of cats under legislation heading to a vote in the state Legislature. The Senate and Assembly are both expected to take up the bill on ...

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WASHINGTON – A federal judge in Washington on Monday rejected a House lawsuit to block spending on President Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall at the border with Mexico. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden of the District of Columbia ...

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The village of Brockport and some Brockport police officers are being sued by a man accusing them of false arrest, assault and battery. Plaintiff Jeremy Smith was a passenger in a car stopped by SUNY Brockport State Police officers on ...

ATLANTA — A Georgia man convicted of throwing scalding water on a sleeping same-sex couple told one of them to “get out of my house with all that gay,” a victim testified, yet he couldn’t be charged with a hate ...

The first foreclosure action on a local property in Robert Morgan’s apartment empire is underway in state Supreme Court in Monroe County. ESL Federal Credit Union filed papers on Monday morning to foreclose on Morgan Rivers Run LLC in Henrietta, ...

Henry M. “Hank” Greenberg, of Albany, has become the 122nd president of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA). Greenberg will serve a one-year term as president. He succeeds Michael Miller, of New York City. Sherry Levin Wallach, of White ...

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