Customs officers at New York’s Kennedy International Airport seized $450,000 worth of cocaine from a traveler who was smuggling the drugs in the wheels of her wheelchair, federal authorities announced. The bust happened Nov. 10 when Customs and Border Patrol ...
Read More »Lawsuit alleges Bill Gray’s delinquent on rent, naming rights fees to rink operator
The nonprofit operating Bill Gray's Regional Iceplex claims the facility's naming rights' holder and concessionaire owes more than $300,000.
Read More »New trial ordered in sex abuse case after witness denied
A New York appeals court has reversed a sex abuse conviction and ordered a new trial because the judge refused to let the defense call a witness.
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Read More »REIT not playing around; pays $22M for Dick’s House of Sport property
A Florida-based Real Estate Investment Trust has paid $22 million for the property that is home to Dick's House of Sport in Victor.
Read More »Supreme Court rejects another bump stock ban case
The Supreme Court on Monday again declined to hear a lawsuit involving a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, the gun attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns. The justices’ decision not to hear the case leaves ...
Read More »Gun charge against teen dismissed over illegal search
A New York City Family Court judge has dismissed a weapon charge against a teen because of an illegal police search.
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Read More »In election, support for abortion rights was about much more
WASHINGTON (AP) — To Mona Cohen, a lifelong Philadelphia Democrat, democracy is under attack in the United States. In the midterm elections, she lists a woman’s right to abortion as one of many fleeting freedoms she voted to defend. Cohen, ...
Read More »Jury orders Filmmaker Paul Haggis to pay $7.5M in rape suit
NEW YORK (AP) — A jury ordered Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis Thursday to pay at least $7.5 million to a woman who accused him of rape in one of several #MeToo-era cases that have put Hollywood notables’ behavior on ...
Read More »NYC closing just-opened migrant center over slowing numbers
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is closing a tent complex for migrants that it had just opened three weeks ago as the influx of people being bused from southern border states has slowed, officials said Thursday. The temporary ...
Read More »The Daily Record’s Power 20 Litigation 2022
The Daily Record is continuing to build on its Power List program with the next practice-specific list: the 2022 Power 20 Litigation list.
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Read More »NYSBA supports law ensuring abortion rights
The New York State Bar Association voted this week to support a federal right to an abortion.
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Read More »NY attorney general, a thorn in Trump’s side, wins 2nd term
Democrat Letitia James has been elected to a second term as New York’s attorney general, an office she has used to pursue former President Donald Trump and a list of other powerful targets. James on Tuesday defeated Republican Michael Henry, ...
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