The state’s highest court has overturned a lower court ruling and reinstated a murder conviction.
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Read More »November 22, 2021 Comments Off on Court of Appeals reinstates murder conviction
The state’s highest court has overturned a lower court ruling and reinstated a murder conviction.
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Read More »February 20, 2019 Comments Off on New York State Court of Appeals: Public allowed to see police body camera footage
NEW YORK (AP) — Police body camera footage is subject to public disclosure under New York law, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday. The Appellate Division panel rejected a police union’s argument that body camera footage constitutes a personnel record ...
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Read More »September 7, 2017 Comments Off on Court of Appeals rejects assisted suicide
The New York State Court of Appeals has ruled unanimously that citizens have no right to assisted suicide. The plaintiffs sought a declaration confirming the constitutional right of a mentally competent, terminally ill person to get a prescription for a ...
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Read More »June 9, 2017 Comments Off on Tri-County Bar Association committee rates nominees for the Court of Appeals
The Tri-County Bar Association Judicial Screening Committee, which is composed of selected members from the Bar Association of Erie County, Monroe County Bar Association and the Onondaga County Bar Association, has sent a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo with the ...
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Read More »May 10, 2017 Comments Off on New York Court of Appeals upholds drunk driving protections
New York’s Court of Appeals has upheld a state law that allows for permanent suspension of drivers licenses for repeat drunk drivers. A unanimous opinion from five of the state’s highest court judges Tuesday affirmed that the Department of Motor ...
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Read More »May 5, 2017 Comments Off on Court of Appeals OKs ban on ‘double dipping’
The New York State Court of Appeals has decided that a policy that prohibits double dipping by state Supreme Court justices is legal and constitutional. Three state Supreme Court justices challenged the policy that wouldn’t let them stay on the ...
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Read More »April 13, 2017 Comments Off on Trailblazing Judge Abdus-Salaam mourned by NY legal community
Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the first African-American woman to serve on New York’s top court, was found dead in the Hudson River Wednesday, police said. She was 65. The body of Abdus-Salaam, a native of Washington, D.C., was found fully clothed in ...
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Read More »February 7, 2017 Comments Off on Facebook takes search warrant challenge to top court
Facebook and Manhattan prosecutors went to New York state’s highest court Tuesday to settle a legal dispute over search warrants for users’ accounts, a closely watched case with big implications for online privacy. An attorney for Facebook told the judges ...
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Read More »February 3, 2017 Comments Off on Social Media Law: NY high court to rule on Facebook and warrants
Can Facebook and similar entities protect user data from sweeping government searches? On Tuesday, the New York Court of Appeals hears oral argument on this issue in the case of In re 381 Search Warrants Directed to Facebook, Inc. I ...
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Read More »February 1, 2017 Comments Off on Trials & Tribulations: Court of Appeals upholds decision denying NYC qualified immunity
On Dec. 22, the Court of Appeals upheld the trial court and Second Department, Appellate Division’s decisions, finding New York City liable in negligence for failing to adequately study and correct a documented speeding problem on a city street, which ...
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Read More »December 21, 2016 Comments Off on Owners of ‘Happy Together’ lose copyright case
Radio stations don’t have to get permission — or pay compensation — to the owners of old music recordings in order to play the recordings, the state’s highest court ruled Tuesday in an ongoing legal dispute between Sirius XM Radio ...
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Read More »October 19, 2016 Comments Off on Court hears copyright dispute over Turtles’ ‘Happy Together’
New York’s highest court has heard oral arguments in a case pitting the owner of The Turtles’ 1967 hit song “Happy Together” against Sirius XM Radio. The issue in Tuesday’s hearing was whether the copyright holders of recordings made before ...
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