A federal judge on Thursday dismissed libel claims against Paramount Pictures brought by a former financial executive who argued the Leonardo DiCaprio-led movie “Wolf of Wall Street” falsely portrayed him as a “criminal, a drug user and a degenerate.”
Read moreA federal judge ruled Esquire’s parent company is liable for copyright infringement for publishing a photo snapped by a guest showing President Donald Trump crashing a wedding at Trump National Golf Club.
Read moreReiterating her desire to send a message to New York’s capital, a federal judge sentenced the former president of the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute to 42 months in prison Tuesday.
Read moreJust a week after New York’s highest court found that the risk of deportation entitles noncitizens to jury trials on misdemeanor charges, the Bronx district attorney changed her tune Tuesday about seeking the U.S. Supreme Court’s review.
Read moreA transgender woman who says police hogtied her and exposed her to other abuses after she was arrested during a domestic dispute filed suit Monday to bring in New York’s big guns.
Read moreRejecting the government’s attempts to tie public-safety grants to immigration policy, a federal judge handed a victory Friday to New York City and six states with sanctuary jurisdictions
Read moreReports Friday of a record-breaking data breach that compromised the data of up to 500 million Marriott customers triggered New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood to open an investigation.
Read moreUnseating a Trump-supporting congresswoman, a grueling focus on absentee ballots led Democrat Anthony Brindisi to declare victory Wednesday in a Republican-majority district of upstate New York.
Read moreAfter the Miami Herald ran a bombshell exposé on disgraced billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex crimes on Wednesday, a New York federal judge released a transcript showing an effort to keep the paper from learning about another accuser’s case.
Read moreReinstating a decade-long dispute between mattress sellers, the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday that a federal judge should not have dismissed slander claims brought by a retailer against a bed manufacturer over statements salespeople made to secret shoppers.
Read moreSince noncitizens can be deported after convictions on mere misdemeanors, they are entitled to have those charges decided in jury trials, New York’s highest court ruled 5-2 Tuesday.
Read moreThe federal judge overseeing a trial over census changes that could waylay Democratic voting power for the next decade slammed the government on Tuesday for what he called its “latest and strangest effort” to “halt the orderly progress of this litigation.”
Read moreThe parents of one of 20 people killed in the limo collision that devastated a community in upstate New York last month brought a lawsuit Monday against the company’s owner: a former FBI informant behind one of the most controversial terrorism prosecutions in memory.
Read moreReversing an order that jailed a Long Island man for four months over his failure to pay child support, a New York appeals court tore into a conservative Long Island judge for his unmistaken bias.
Read moreNew York’s highest court appeared reproachful Thursday of the decision to let jurors in the 2010 trial of four gang members remain anonymous.
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Read moreA New York appeals court threw pipeline plans into a tailspin Tuesday, refusing to let a developer acquire the privately owned land via eminent domain when the state has already held up environmental permits.
Read moreThe United States brought a 30-count indictment Friday against the suspect in a mail-bombing spree that targeted politicians, philanthropists and reporters perceived as critical of President Donald Trump.
Read moreSix months to the day after announcing their investigation, Nassau County prosecutors told news outlets Thursday that former New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman will not face criminal charges.
Read moreAdvancing a suit by the National Rifle Association, a federal judge refused Tuesday to toss claims that New York banks and insurers are using selective enforcement to harm the group’s longstanding corporate relationships.
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