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WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett batted back Democrats’ skeptical questions on abortion, gun rights and election disputes in lively Senate confirmation testimony Tuesday, insisting she would bring no personal agenda to the court but would decide cases ...

NEW YORK — When it comes to sympathetic figures, landlords aren’t exactly at the top of the list. But they, too, have fallen on hard times, demonstrating how the coronavirus outbreak spares almost no one. Take Shad Elia, who owns ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden says he is “not a fan” of adding seats to the Supreme Court, after weeks of avoiding questions about the idea that’s been pushed by progressives and used by Republicans to attack him. “I’ve already ...

MADISON, Wis. — Democrats and their allies said Tuesday they will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether absentee ballots in battleground Wisconsin that are received up to six days after the election can be counted — a move ...

As an enticement in hiring new linemen to work for municipally owned Fairport Electric, the village of Fairport pays for the cost of a four-year apprenticeship training program. In return, hirees agree to stay with Fairport Electric for another four ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats branded Supreme Court  nominee Amy Coney Barrett a threat to Americans’ health care during the coronavirus pandemic Monday at the start of a fast-tracked hearing that Republicans are confident will end with Barrett’s confirmation to replace ...

MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin judge on Monday allowed the state’s mask mandate to stand, rejecting an attempt by the Republican-controlled Legislature and a conservative law firm to overturn it, even as cases are spiking. The judge noted in his ...

LOS ANGELES — A federal appeals court has ruled against the U.S. State Department in its quest to deny the citizenship of one of two twins born abroad to a gay married couple. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

A state appeals court has upheld a decision that a laborer for the Seneca County town of Waterloo who was elected town highway superintendent in a neighboring community is entitled to continue working in the Waterloo job and receive back ...

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Eight months after Robert Morgan’s defense team said their client’s right to a speedy trial had been violated, U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Wolford agreed and has dismissed federal fraud charges against Rochester’s most prominent real estate developer. Federal prosecutors are, ...

A state appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a golfer seeking damages for an injury suffered while playing golf at Holiday Valley Golf Resort in Cattaraugus County. The court dismissed the case under the doctrine of assumption of ...

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Four Rochester-area lawyers are among the 25 recipients of the Rochester Business Journal’s 2020 Icon Honors awards. Donald O. Chesworth of Tully Rinckey PLLC, R. Thompson (Tom) Gilman of Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP, Ross P. Lanzafame of Harter Secrest & ...