A former New York state prison inmate has been awarded $175,000 by a federal judge because he was kept incarcerated for longer than his legal sentence. Plaintiff Shawn Michael Vincent sued several New York state prison officials for adding on ...

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A Rochester man has filed a federal lawsuit claiming he was falsely arrested by Rochester Police who hit him and sprayed him with mace. Quentin Keene claims in a 58-page complaint filed Monday in state Supreme Court that he was ...

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A federal court in New York is scheduled to release redacted copies Tuesday of the search warrant and other documents that gave the FBI new license to dig into a trove of Hillary Clinton emails days before the presidential election. ...

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A Nicaraguan man has admitted to helping in the kidnapping of a child. Timothy Miller, 40, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit international parental kidnapping before, according to the Office of the U.S. Attorney. Miller is facing a maximum sentence ...

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The entire nation is waiting to see how a Donald Trump presidency plays out, but his upset victory poses a few questions of particular interest to the legal community in western New York. For starters, what does the election outcome ...

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An $800,000 settlement in a class action suit filed by a group of workers against Delta-Sonic is expected to be finalized Friday in U.S. District Court before Judge Jonathan W. Feldman. Under the terms of the settlement, the current and ...

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