Two notable criminal cases are on the calendar for federal court in Rochester later this week. On Thursday, convicted terrorist sympathizer Emanuel Lutchman is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci Jr. And on Friday, ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — A 98-year-old New Jersey woman convicted of conspiracy in the run-up to the atomic spy trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg wants a court to clear her name. Miriam Moskowitz filed papers Tuesday in Manhattan federal ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court will consider the requirements for transferring class-action lawsuits from state courts to federal courts. The justices on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from a Michigan energy company that asserts it should be ...

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BUFFALO — A trial begins in federal court in Buffalo this week for seven former labor leaders accused of racketeering in western New York. A dozen members of Operating Engineers Local 17 were charged in 2008 with engaging in a ...

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WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans blocked President Barack Obama’s nominees to an influential federal court and a housing agency on Thursday, despite Democratic warnings of a return to last summer’s partisan brawl over who wields power in the Senate. In rapid ...

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WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden’s spokesman and son-in-law has been captured by the United States, officials said Thursday, in what a senior congressman called a “very significant victory” in the ongoing fight against al-Qaida. Abu Ghaith is expected to be ...

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A federal court decided yesterday that an employer may have violated federal discrimination law for having the audacity to require an employee to show up for work on time. I guess next we’ll learn that it’s illegal to force an ...

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A Georgia man has been sentenced in federal court in Rochester to eight years in prison for scamming more than $5 million from two western New York investors. Local media reports that the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Wednesday that 64-year-old ...

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WASHINGTON — A federal court on Thursday rejected a Texas law that would require voters to present photo IDs to election officials before being allowed to cast ballots in November. A three-judge panel in Washington unanimously ruled that the law ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday upheld the first-ever regulations aimed at reducing the gases blamed for global warming. The rules, which were challenged by industry groups and various states, will reduce ...

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It always comes down to the cash. That point was illustrated in a decision handed down last week by a New Jersey federal judge who had to decide whether two warring law firms should share $2.45 million in fees allocated ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court tried to decipher the strange wording of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act this week to determine if plaintiffs can sue in federal court rather than state court. The act outlaws certain abusive telephone and fax-related practices ...

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