BUFFALO (AP) — Lawyers for New York state asked a judge Thursday to throw out a lawsuit claiming its education-funding formula shortchanges charter schools. The suit, brought by five Buffalo and Rochester families and the Northeast Charter Schools Network, calls ...

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ALBANY — Backers of natural gas drilling and environmental advocates wrangled Thursday over whether New York’s towns have the legal right to ban oil and gas development in a fight that could ultimately be decided by the state’s highest court. ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court was to hear arguments today in a case challenging the constitutionality of a core provision of the Voting Rights Act. In a friend-of-the-court brief, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman led a four-state coalition to argue that ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court went to the dogs on Halloween. Justices returned to work on Wednesday by hearing arguments in a couple of cases dealing with police dogs and their use in criminal cases in Florida. In one ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court plunged into debate Monday on the fate of the Obama administration’s overhaul of the nation’s health care system, and the justices gave every indication they will not allow an obscure tax law to ...

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WASHINGTON — The chief justice excuses himself for a mere hour and the U.S. Supreme Court starts sounding like a schoolyard. At a very good school, but still. It’s not every day that one lawyer arguing before the justices refers ...

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ALBANY — An attorney for a dozen banks is urging New York’s top court to reinstate their breach-of-contract lawsuit challenging the state-approved restructuring of MBIA’s bond insurance business, saying they face losses they should be insured against.

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Justice Elena Kagan has only been seated on the U.S. Supreme Court’s bench for a few months, but she’s already proven one thing beyond a doubt: She is not shy. Her first oral arguments as a Supreme Court justice took place on Oct. 4 ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court is broadening access to audio recordings of all its arguments, but ending its practice of same-day release of audio in high-profile cases.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The long-running legal fight over whether former Playmate Anna Nicole Smith should have gotten part of the fortune left behind by her elderly Texas billionaire husband landed at the Supreme Court on Tuesday as justices ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C.— Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's arguments as solicitor general in several cases on government secrecy were at odds with a promise of transparency made by her boss and top client, President Barack Obama.

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