It is likely there will be no Independence Party candidates for supreme court in the Fifth Judicial District. The Appellate Division, Third Department, has ruled that the party’s Sept. 25 judicial convention lacked an adequate number of delegates. By law, supreme court justice candidates ...

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Supreme Court, Erie County Family Health Care Decisions Act Do Not Resuscitate In the Matter of Erie County Med. Ctr. Corp. (Doe) Xx/11 Judge Michalek Background: The petitioner moved for the authority to withhold life-sustaining treatment from Jane Doe, an incapacitated ...

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Supreme Court, Wayne County Election Law Residency Requirement Board of Trustees of the Village of Sodus, N.Y. v. Allen 71473 Justice Kehoe Background: The plaintiff  sought to declare the defendant ineligible to remain as the mayor of the village of ...

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Supreme Court, Ontario County Zoning Conditions Personal Conditions Mead Square Commons LLC v. Village of Victor 106515 Judge Doran Background: The plaintiff commenced an action for injunctive relief and declaratory judgment to set aside and prohibit enforcement of the § ...

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Supreme Court, Monroe County Electronic Discovery Compelling Metadata Dartnell Enterprises Inc. v. Hewlett Packard Company 2006/02709 Judge Stander Background: The plaintiff commenced the action against the defendant alleging bad faith and tortuous interference with prospective business relations with third parties. The ...

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Supreme Court, Erie County Annulment Fraud Lazar v. Lazar 2009/901303 Judge NeMoyer Background: The parties were married in 1998 and had two children. The plaintiff wife filed for divorce in 2009 and the defendant counterclaimed for an annulment of the ...

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Supreme Court, Monroe County Property Designations Procedural and Substantive Due Process Coco v. Town of Irondequoit, et al. 2009/14811 Judge Frazee Background: The plaintiff, on behalf of the estate of Joseph Coco, was the owner of property at 630 Rock ...

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Supreme Court, Ontario County Personal Injury Zone of Danger Jordan v. Eldridge 102756 Justice Doran Background: The plaintiff sued on behalf of herself and her infant daughter after they were both in a car accident. The plaintiff’s infant twin daughter ...

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Supreme Court, Cayuga County Adverse Possession Actual & Exclusive Possession — Waste of Taxpayer Funds Camardo v. City of Auburn, et al. 2011-0072 Judge Valentino Background: The case arose out of an ownership dispute over a 1.9-foot strip of land ...

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Supreme Court, Monroe County Article 78 SEQRA Camardo v. City of Auburn, New York 2011-0259 Justice Valentino Background: The petitioner sought a judgment pursuant to CPLR Art. 78 against respondent annulling respondent’s negative declaration pursuant to the State Environmental Quality ...

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Supreme Court, Monroe County Order of Protection Modification Post-Sentencing People v. Zacher 2005-0303 Judge Valentino Background: The court sentenced the defendant to two concurrent life sentences without parole for the murder of his wife and daughter. The defendant was also ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Almost anywhere in the United States, two holdouts among 12 jurors would prevent a conviction. Unfortunately for Troy Barbour, his trial for attempted murder took place in Louisiana, where he got 48 years in prison after a jury convicted him on a 10-2 vote.

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