As sordid Jeffrey Epstein stories pile up in lawsuits against the late sex offender’s estate, a new case filed Tuesday says Epstein forced one victim to marry a noncitizen recruiter in his vast sex-trafficking enterprise.
Read moreAnti-vax parents who tried to circumvent New York’s vaccine mandate by alleging disability discrimination failed Monday to secure a federal injunction.
Read moreEmbattled National Rifle Association board member and former president Oliver North will be deposed Tuesday morning in a New York state investigation without NRA lawyers present, to the consternation of the gun-rights group.
Read moreThe National Rifle Association asked a judge Friday to let its lawyers sit in next week when New York deposes the group’s former president Oliver North.
Read moreA New York City medical examiner ruled Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell death a suicide Friday, saying her autopsy showed that the millionaire sex offender hanged himself.
Read moreNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to impart a domestic-terrorism label on mass shootings by white supremacists is earning accolades from political and activist leaders.
Read moreA student brought a federal complaint against the Riverhead Central School District, saying high school principal Charles Regan sexually harassed, seduced and assaulted her.
Read moreA woman who says Jeffrey Epstein began sexually abusing her when she was just 14 filed suit Wednesday against the late sex offender’s estate and alleged accomplices, invoking a law that just took effect in New York for child sex abuse survivors to seek civil damages.
Read moreCelebrating a law over a decade in the making, New York lawmakers who survived sex abuse as children praised the state Tuesday for giving future generations more opportunities to seek justice.
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Jeffrey Epstein, the connected financier accused of orchestrating a sex-trafficking ring, had been taken off suicide watch before he killed himself in a New York jail, a person familiar with the matter said Saturday.
Read moreThe NRA has lost its court bid for access to the state records it claims will show New York Governor Cuomo illegally pressured insurers to cut ties with the group.
Read moreA wrongful-death lawsuit for the disappearance of Robert Durst’s first wife is 35 years too late, a New York judge ruled Monday.
Read moreHappier to team up in court than on the ballot, two New York political parties have sued to overturn an election law that consolidates political endorsements.
Read moreA federal judge seemed inclined to maintain the status quo Wednesday by letting New York temporarily throw ice on any request it gets from House Democrats for the president’s tax returns.
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The Empire State has imperial designs on a school district in the city of Rochester, whose Mayor Lovely Warren has enthusiastically embraced a state takeover of the schools.
Read moreBefore wading into whether Democrats can pursue President Donald Trump’s state tax returns, a federal judge on Monday asked the House Ways and Means Committee and the New York Legislature to assure him they will not render the case moot by state officials abruptly turning over the documents.
Read moreA disgruntled Brooklyn resident filed a federal class action Monday against on-demand food delivery service DoorDash, claiming he wanted to tip his delivery driver for good service, not subsidize that worker’s wages for the company.
Read moreAccused in a new lawsuit of disability discrimination, New York Attorney General Letitia James on Friday defended vaccine requirements for children to attend school.
Read moreA wrongful-death lawsuit for the 1982 disappearance of Kathleen Durst is 35 years too late, attorneys for the real estate scion argued Thursday before a New York judge.
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