ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state expanded a state law Wednesday that prohibits gender pay discrimination, making it illegal to pay someone less based on characteristics including race, religion, disability or gender identity. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the ...
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A group of parents is suing New York state in an effort to reinstate a religious exemption to vaccine mandates. The plaintiffs, represented by attorneys including Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., argue that state lawmakers violated the ...
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The Connecticut Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal of a lower court’s decision sanctioning broadcaster Alex Jones, a sudden turn in a case pitting families whose relatives were killed at a Newtown, Connecticut, school against conspiracy theorists. Eight families ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Trying to tamp down calls for his resignation, Labor Secretary Alex Acosta on Wednesday defended his handling of a sex trafficking case involving now-jailed financier Jeffrey Epstein, insisting he got the toughest deal he could at the ...
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The Monroe County legislature has voted in favor of commencing litigation against the state of New York against the Driver’s License Access and Privacy Act, otherwise known as the Green Light Bill. The Green Light Bill, which was officially signed ...
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An appellate court has vacated a guilty plea in a robbery and grand larceny case because the defendant received ineffective legal representation. The defendant, Ali Bloodworth, pleaded guilty in August 2015 to first-degree robbery and third-degree grand larceny before state ...
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NEW YORK — The Justice Department can’t replace nine lawyers so late in the dispute over whether to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census without explaining why it’s doing so, a judge says. U.S. District Judge Jesse M. ...
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WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court Wednesday sided with President Donald Trump, dismissing a lawsuit claiming the president is illegally profiting from foreign and state government visitors at his luxury hotel in downtown Washington. The unanimous ruling from the U.S. ...
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President Donald Trump cannot block his critics from the Twitter feed he regularly uses to communicate with the public, a federal appeals court said Tuesday, in a case with implications for how elected officials nationwide interact with constituents on social ...
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WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Tuesday declined to answer a reporter’s question about an assertion by Attorney General William Barr, saying he had lied to Congress and that she would no longer address “anything more that he ...
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has upheld a lower court ruling committing a defendant to federal custody for psychiatric treatment. In January, U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford ordered that defendant Donald Brennan be ...
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The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees to the circuit courts at an unprecedented fast pace, giving the Republican more than 1 out of every 5 judges on the powerful appellate branch. Not one of the 41 judges ...
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