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Attorneys in the local office of Harris Beach PLLC recently won a lengthy legal battle over a $10 million life insurance policy. The litigation played out in four states over the past decade, culminating in a decision by the U.S. ...

A federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration’s addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. In the first major ruling on the controversial question, Judge Jesse Furman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of ...

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WASHINGTON – Special counsel Robert Mueller on Tuesday asked a federal judge to again delay sentencing for Rick Gates, saying the top deputy to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort continues to cooperate with investigators. The request was joined by ...

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LAS VEGAS — A legal opinion from the U.S. Department of Justice made public Monday could threaten the viability of online gambling that crosses state lines such as poker. The 23-page opinion interprets the federal Wire Act, which prohibits interstate ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state may soon join most other states in allowing its citizens to cast a ballot before Election Day in a bid to improve its low voter turnout rates. The state Senate and Assembly both ...

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WASHINGTON – Attorney general nominee William arr said in written testimony released Monday that he would let Special Counsel Robert Mueller finish his investigation of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign without political interference and that it was “very important” Congress and ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A proposed ban on gay conversion therapy is picking up momentum in Albany now that Democrats control the entire Legislature. The state Senate is planning to vote on the bill Tuesday. It would prohibit licensed therapists ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) —Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo was set to release his annual state budget proposal Tuesday to a New York Legislature that’s controlled by Democrats for the first time in a decade. Cuomo was scheduled to present what’s expected ...

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The New York State Bar Association’s (NYSBA) 142nd annual meeting starts Monday in New York City. The event will include programs on #MeToo movement, wrongful prosecutions, whistleblower laws, cannabis law, pros and cons of a single-payer healthcare system, empowering communities ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal magistrate on Friday recommended overturning the controversial 2006 conviction of a California man accused of attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan and plotting an attack in the United States. Hamid Hayat, now 36, who ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court, without comment, turned away a challenge Monday to Matt Whitaker’s appointment as acting attorney general. Washington lawyer and Supreme Court practitioner Thomas Goldstein has intervened in cases in Nevada and Maryland to say that President ...

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