WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear a challenge to New York state’s requirement that all children be vaccinated before they can attend public school. The justices on Monday let stand an appeals court ruling that said the policy ...

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Delivery requirements for notification in Election Law disputes will not be changed in the wake of a challenge in Niagara County, objecting to the notice being mailed on the last day of which a proceeding may be started, knowing actual ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that a North Carolina sex offender should have another chance to challenge an order that he wear a GPS monitoring bracelet around the clock and for the rest of his life. The ...

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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Attorney General Marty Jackley said South Dakota has joined 21 other states in a brief filed in an appellate court challenging the constitutionality of a New York ban on semi-automatic weapons. Jackley said that while the ...

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The state is defending a 2010 law change that allows it to require nursing home owners to get written permission before spending more than 3 percent of their equity. It made its case recently before the state Court of Appeals, ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A sharply-divided U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out an attempt by U.S. citizens to challenge the expansion of a surveillance law used to monitor conversations of foreign spies and terrorist suspects. With a 5-4 vote, the ...

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The city of Buffalo wants to inspect the interiors of homes whose owners are challenging their assessments. It claims it cannot get a true appraisal of the homes without looking inside, but the homeowners say that violates their Fourth Amendment ...

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Another challenge to the city of Rochester’s property inspection warrant process has been dismissed, but the property owners plan to appeal. The Appellate Division, Fourth Department has reversed a lower court decision and dismissed the petition of Deborah Burns and ...

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ALBANY — A smokers’ rights group is objecting to a new rule beginning this year that will prohibit smokers from using New York state’s parks, pools areas and beaches and historic sites as ash trays. The anti-smoking rule created in ...

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ALBANY — New York’s top court is weighing a constitutional challenge by state Senate Democrats who claim Republicans improperly used two different formulas to redraw the election map that created a 63rd Senate district upstate. The Court of Appeals has ...

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In the most recent challenge to the city’s property inspection warrant law, a Supreme Court justice agreed with a property owner that a provision of the law is unconstitutional. The city, which won a similar dual challenge in December, has ...

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Republican lawmakers are officially jumping into the legal fight over President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. And leading the GOP senators’ fight is a man who was blocked from ...

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