NEW YORK (AP) — An appeals court has upheld New York City’s law banning people with home handgun licenses from taking guns outside the city for target practice or to a second home. The Friday ruling by the 2nd U.S. ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Federal appeals judges in New York seem content to let the Supreme Court help define what the government must reveal about ending a program shielding young immigrants from deportation. A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — An appeals court in New York says a U.S. citizen detained for more than three years in a bungled immigration case cannot sue for damages. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reached the conclusion in ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — A recent Supreme Court ruling clarifying the reach of public corruption charges cannot rescue a former New York state assemblyman serving a 14-year prison sentence from his conviction in a scheme to take bribes from a ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — A creative director in the advertising industry who claimed his employer discriminated against him because he failed to conform to gender stereotypes can sue his employer, a federal appeals court said Monday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit ...

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NEW YORK — A federal appeals court said Tuesday it won’t rehear a panel’s decision letting companies like Microsoft refuse to turn over to the government customer emails stored overseas. The judges of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

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NEW YORK — Gun control laws passed in New York and Connecticut to ban possession of semi-automatic weapons and large-capacity magazines after the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School were mostly upheld Monday by a federal appeals court. The ...

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NEW YORK — The creation of a full-text searchable database of millions of books is a fair use of copyrighted works, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, saying it also is permissible to distribute the books in alternative forms to ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court says President Barack Obama’s administration must publicly disclose its legal justification for using drones to kill U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism overseas. The ruling Monday by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of ...

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HARTFORD, Conn. — A federal appeals court is making a rare appearance in Connecticut to hear several cases, including one involving a Virginia pastor convicted of helping a woman and her child flee the country and avoid a custody dispute ...

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NEW YORK — A federal appeals court in New York has agreed that Starbucks baristas must share their tips with shift supervisors. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its finding Thursday. The decision stemmed from a lower-court ruling ...

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NEW YORK — A New York appeals court has ruled that a construction company started by Osama bin Laden’s father cannot be held liable for the Sept. 11 attacks. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also said Tuesday that ...

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