Alerted by a state office that a New York lawyer had failed to file tax returns, authorities in Erie County initiated an investigation that eventually led to a guilty plea…
A state-court judge has ordered officials in Troy, N.Y., to take DNA tests to help prosecutors determine who may or may not be responsible for alleged absentee ballot fraud in…
The JetBlue flight attendant who became fed up with a passenger and jumped down an emergency chute will undergo a mental health evaluation that could help him avoid jail time.
Almost 30 years after he traveled to New York to gun down John Lennon, his convicted killer, Mark David Chapman, won’t be getting out of prison anytime soon.
A coalition of civil rights groups and criminal defense attorneys has sued the Department of Homeland Security over its alleged border searches and seizures, without reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing, of…
Gail Koff, a onetime corporate lawyer who wound up serving as the public face of a pioneering consumer law firm has died of complications from leukemia treatment. She was 65…
Federal law allows wait staff and others who receive tips to be paid less than minimum wage—$4.65 an hour to be specific—as long as they can retain the gratuities they…
A self-described anti-feminist lawyer in Manhattan has lost his claim that night clubs are state actors because of liquor sales, making them subject to a constitutional equal protection claim for…
The daughter of prosecutor and former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani will have a shoplifting charge dismissed and her case closed and sealed if she completes a day of…
Many underemployed law grads from the classes of 2009 and 2010 are beefing up their resumés with volunteer work, and that’s a boon for New York’s court system.
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