Former Bills football player accused of sexual assault at local bar
Former Buffalo Bills football player Cornelius Bennett is being sued by a woman who claims Bennett sexually abused her in 1992 at the Otter Lodge in Brighton. Bennett, 56, was a linebacker for the Buffalo Bills from 1987 to 1995. He is 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighed about 240 pounds when he was […]
Fan seeks video of fight at Bills game
A Canadian man who was injured while trying to break up a fight at a Buffalo Bills football game is asking a judge to order the team to provide video footage and other information to help him identify potential defendants in a lawsuit seeking damages for his injuries. Joshua Douglas, who lives in Ontario, Canada, […]
Was Trump behind 2014 effort to foil Bon Jovi’s NFL bid?
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Was Donald Trump the secret force behind the seemingly grassroots 2014 campaign to block Jon Bon Jovi from buying the NFL’s Buffalo Bills? That’s what those involved are saying now, three years after the billionaire and the rocker were competing to buy the Bills. At the heart of the effort was […]
Buffalo Jills’ suit against Bills and NFL proceeds
A class-action wage theft lawsuit filed by cheerleaders for the Buffalo Bills football team will move forward, thanks to a recent decision by the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court. The Fourth Department affirmed a June 2016 decision by state Supreme Court Justice Timothy J. Drury to certify the class-action complaint originally filed in April […]
McKenzie still in the game
HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. — The weeds and wild grass rose well above Reggie McKenzie’s knees as the former Buffalo Bills star walked the field bearing his name in the small Detroit enclave of Highland Park. With two weeks until the start of the youth football camp he’s been running for four decades, the city-owned field had yet to […]
Congress considers its own form of sports ‘blackout’
Consumers and taxpayers help pay for the stadiums and other sports venues of professional sports teams, pave the way for the roads to get to them, buy all kinds of fan gear and then face the threat of not being able to see their favorite teams play on television because of a broadcast blackout. The […]
Post-Bills game arrests
New York State Police issued 42 traffic tickets, including three for driving while intoxicated, Sunday in its DWI saturation patrol to coincide with the Buffalo Bills home game in Orchard Park. The DWI tickets were issued to men from Erie, Monroe and Genesee counties. One ticket was issued to a Michigan man for aggravated DWI […]
Buffalo Bills fans relieved by choice of new owner
ORCHARD PARK (AP) — It’s the assurance that Buffalo Bills fans have been seeking since well before the death of the team’s 95-year-old founder and owner Ralph Wilson Jr.: The team’s not going anywhere. A day after word came that Buffalo Sabres owners Terry and Kim Pegula have reached an agreement to buy the NFL […]
Pegulas’ $1.4 billion bid to buy Bills pays off
ORCHARD PARK — The NFL-record bid Buffalo Sabres owners Terry and Kim Pegula have made to buy the Bills is already paying off. Their offer of $1.4 billion has quickly resulted in an outpouring of support generated in their adopted home. The Bills aren’t going anywhere thanks to the deep-pocketed Pegulas who reached a “definitive […]
Cuomo doubts need for new Bills venue
BUFFALO (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo isn’t convinced the Buffalo Bills will need a new stadium once the team is sold, but said the state will help out if one is required. In Buffalo on Tuesday, Cuomo said whatever happens will depend on what conditions the new owner and National Football League set for keeping […]
Sources: Bills prospective buyers contacted
ORCHARD PARK (AP) — The bidding for the Buffalo Bills is set to begin now that prospective ownership groups are being contacted by a law firm representing late owner Ralph Wilson’s estate. And Sabres owner Terry Pegula is among the interested parties. Two people familiar with the sale process told The Associated Press on Thursday […]
AP: Golisano expresses plans to buy Bills
BUFFALO (AP) — People involved with the negotiations say billionaire Tom Golisano has met with Buffalo Bills officials and public leaders, and informed them of his interest in purchasing the franchise. A person said Golisano, the former Buffalo Sabres owner and failed gubernatorial candidate from Rochester, also has had talks with developer Scott Congel to […]
Case Digests
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Review of another judge’s actions: Opinion 22-153
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Charitable contributions: Opinion 22-150
- Second Circuit – Class action settlement: Moses v. The New York Times Company
- Fourth Department – Breach of contract: Hausrath Landscape Maintenance Inc. v. Caravan Facilities Management LLC
- Second Circuit – New York Child Victim’s Act: Kane v. Mount Pleasant CSD; Coe v. Eastport Union Free School
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Appointing law clerk: Opinion 22-149
- Fourth Department – Bill of particulars: Harris v. Rome Memorial Hospital, et al.
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Accusations against co-judge: Opinion 22-148
- Fourth Department – Medicaid: Washington Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Home v. NYS Dept. of Health
- Fourth Department – Criminal possession of a firearm: People v. Wilson
- Fourth Department – Promoting prostitution: People v. Watts
- Second Circuit – Class certification: Arkansas Teachers Retirement System V. Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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- Rochester man sues Geneseo police, alleging false arrest, assault
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