Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority is proposing improvements to its paratransit service, Lift Line. RGRTA is inviting customers to learn more about the proposed improvements online at www.rgrta.com and during four public information sessions in July, beginning 6 to 8 ...
Read More »Chief Judge Lippman: On the record
The thing Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman finds most surprising about the testimony he has heard in a series of hearings on civil legal services is the depth of the need. He also said the fact that those in need are ...
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Read More »Hearings set on proposed rules for gas drillers
ALBANY — New York environmental regulators have formally issued proposed regulations for hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells in the lucrative Marcellus Shale region of southern New York and scheduled four public hearings.
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Read More »Lippman returns to Fourth Department
New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman has scheduled a series of hearings on civil legal services. The hearings are to evaluate to continuing unmet civil legal services needs in all parts of the state to access the level of resources ...
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Read More »King defends past IRA support, terror hearings
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Peter King, who will hold hearings this week on Islamic radicalism, is defending his support in the 1980s and 1990s of the Irish Republican Army's political wing. The New York Republican says the IRA and al-Qaida are very different ...
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Read More »Hearings set on access to civil legal services
New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman has scheduled four hearings across the state to address a growing crisis in unmet civil legal service needs.
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Read More »Lawyers pack Boise for crucial hearing
Dozens of coastal attorneys have descended on remote, land-locked Boise for a hearing in federal court to decide what to do with several hundred lawsuits arising from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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Read More »Leahy: Kagan hearings to start in June
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy moved quickly Wednesday to advance Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan down a so-far smooth road to confirmation, setting hearings for June 28.
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