Recognizing that many victims of Hurricane Sandy are in dire need of legal assistance, the New York State Bar Association and The New York Bar Foundation have jointly established a fund to help them. The “Superstorm Sandy Relief Fund” will ...

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The state Court of Appeals has invoked its Major Disaster Rule to allow out-of-state attorneys to provide free legal services to the residents of areas most heavily affected by Hurricane Sandy. As a result of the storm, the court has ...

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Many of the people affected by Hurricane Sandy, particularly downstate, are the state Unified Court System’s judges and non-judicial employees. Some, according to the courts, have lost their homes, while others have lost personal possession and have been displaced. To ...

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The Rochester Fire Department has sent one truck company (four firefighters) and a 110-foot aerial ladder truck to Nassau County to help with Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. The company, according to Mayor Thomas S. Richards, left at noon Thursday for a ...

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Ten New York state troopers and two sergeants based in Batavia are heading to Suffolk County where they will join about 400 New York State Police personnel already on the scene, aiding in the recovery and clean up caused by ...

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ALBANY — New Yorkers will have extra time to apply for an absentee ballot in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The state Board of Elections met in an emergency meeting late Wednesday and approved an extension until Friday, Nov. 2. ...

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Since the peak of Hurricane Sandy, the New York State Police have moved personnel and more than doubled the number of troopers assigned to Long Island, while still maintaining a presence and responding to calls for police service across the ...

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WASHINGTON — The IRS is giving taxpayers and tax preparers hit by Hurricane Sandy an extra week to file returns and make payments. The tax agency says the relief will apply mainly to businesses in the storm-impacted Northeast and Mid-Atlantic ...

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As a result of Hurricane Sandy and continuing travel restrictions, the New York State Bar Association has postponed a number of programs. The quarterly meeting of the House of Delegates, the association’s governing body, was scheduled for Saturday in Albany. ...

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