WASHINGTON – Plaintiffs led by the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against the Trump administration in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Tuesday in an attempt to halt the implementation of a new policy disqualifying most asylum seekers ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Will the notorious Mexican drug lord known as “El Chapo” go quietly? For Joaquin Guzman, that’s the biggest question at his sentencing in New York City on Wednesday. The highly-anticipated hearing could be his last chance ...
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A state Supreme Court justice must decide on an unresolved issue before an appellate court can reach a final decision on an appeal of a murder conviction. Terrol Massey, 30, was convicted in April 2007 in Buffalo of second-degree murder, ...
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NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that they won’t bring criminal charges against a white New York City police officer in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, a black man whose dying words — “I can’t breathe” — ...
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The call to arms appeared on the Daily Stormer, a well-known neo-Nazi website, in December 2016. “Are y’all ready for an old fashioned Troll Storm?” publisher Andrew Anglin wrote. “Because AYO — it’s that time, fam.” With that, Tanya Gersh, ...
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Two weeks after being sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge, avowed neo-Nazi James A. Fields Jr. received a similar sentence Monday in a Virginia court for ramming his car into a group of counterprotesters ...
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WASHINGTON – A new lawsuit alleges that Boeing and Southwest Airlines endangered public safety by colluding to hide a design flaw in the 737 Max jet. “This action seeks to hold Southwest and Boeing responsible for their reckless, greedy conspiracy ...
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Lawyers for the state of Oklahoma urged a judge Monday to find health care conglomerate Johnson & Johnson culpable for the consequences of the state’s opioid epidemic and assess the company as much as $17.5 billion to help clean up ...
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WASHINGTON – White House counselor Kellyanne Conway will ignore a congressional subpoena at the request of President Donald Trump, refusing to testify about a government watchdog’s findings that she broke the law dozens of times, the White House said Monday. ...
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A large portion of a federal lawsuit accusing a Rochester police officer of police brutality has been dismissed. Vince Bradley Jr. claims that a Rochester Police officer beat him up in September 2017. Bradley claims that Sgt. Anthony Bongiovanni stopped ...
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NEW YORK — Financier Jeffrey Epstein will remain behind bars for now as a federal judge mulls whether to grant bail on charges he sexually abused underage girls. The judge said he needed more time to make a decision during ...
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Seven attorneys at Barclay Damon LLP have been named Empire State Counsel by the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA). The designation honors NYSBA members who, during the prior year, performed 50 or more hours of pro bono service. They ...
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