WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement officials warned Wednesday that data encryption is making it harder to hunt for pedophiles and terror suspects, telling senators that consumers’ right to privacy is not absolute and must be weighed against public-safety interests. The ...
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Read More »Robert L. Link, a justice of the Oppenheim Town Court in Fulton County, has resigned from office after being served with formal disciplinary charges. Pursuant to a stipulation, state Commission on Judicial Conduct announced that Link agreed not to seek ...
Read More »Richard H. Reome Sr., a justice of the Schuyler Falls Town Court in Clinton County, has resigned from office after being served with formal disciplinary charges. As announced Tuesday by the state Commission on Judicial Conduct, Reome agreed not to ...
Read More »If President Barack Obama is able to do again what few other presidents have — appoint a justice to the U.S. Supreme Court — chances are he will turn to a candidate who will have an even easier time winning ...
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Read More »NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — A Massachusetts man says he’s not giving up on finding his son’s killer even though it’s been a year since the fatal shooting. Paul Vasconcellos of New Bedford travels to Rochester at least once a month to distribute fliers, speak with police and even pay for billboards ...
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Read More »New York is not the only state trying to do more with less. The impact of court under funding was discussed Thursday by Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman and several other Northeast judges at a hearing on the critical need for access to justice ...
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Read More »Think twice before sending. Law enforcement officers hope children, particularly teenagers, think about what they are posting online and realize it will be there forever. Officers often hear that one of their greatest responsibilities ...
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Read More »Judges judge and justices administer justice. Judges may also administer justice while justices judge. And which one you call the person wearing the robe behind the bench in court won’t matter much to most, but there is a difference.
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Read More »The lack of adequate civil legal services for the state’s poor affects everyone. Not only does it impact the quality of justice for all parties in the court system, but it increases litigation down the road and costs millions of dollars ...
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Read More »The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct on Thursday announced that Jeffrey L. Menard, a justice of the Mooers Town Court in Clinton County, should be censured for failing to disqualify himself in cases involving his nephews, his employers’ sons and his co-justice.
Read More »WASHINGTON, D.C. — This time Elena Kagan got to ask the questions. With her confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court now a part of history, the court's newest justice — and third woman — took a direct role for the first time in a case before the court.
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Read More »WASHINGTON, D.C. — Justice Elena Kagan has taken her seat at the Supreme Court in front of a packed courtroom that included President Barack Obama.
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