When 16-term Congresswoman Louise Slaughter died in March, Governor Andrew Cuomo should have called a special election to fill the vacancy, Slaughter’s constituents say. He has not, so they sued him Tuesday in a federal class action.
Read moreHollywood producer Scott Rudin’s theater company filed a $10 million countersuit against the estate of author Harper Lee for trying to block an upcoming stage adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and offered a courtroom performance featuring actor Jeff Daniels as Atticus Finch.
Read moreThe Upstate Jobs Party sued officials with the New York State Board of Elections, claiming campaign-finance limits favor the major political parties and constrain those that do not have party status but are competing for state offices.
Read moreNew York state and the United States brought a federal complaint Wednesday that says the town of Ticonderoga has failed since 2014 to remove cryptosporidium from public water sources including Gooseneck Pond, the Chilson Reservoir and the Baldwin Road filtration plant.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union brought national firepower Thursday to the case of a man with schizophrenia who has been denied a bond hearing while he faces deportation to Haiti for subway-turnstile mischief.
Read moreSix cities, 18 attorneys general and a bipartisan group of U.S. mayors filed a federal complaint Tuesday to keep a question about citizenship status out of the 2020 census, as it has been on every survey since 1950.
Read moreFour years after its aid of U.S.-sanctioned countries like the Sudan resulted in an $8.9 billion fine, BNP Paribas ducked a lawsuit Friday by refugees of the Sudan’s ethnic-cleansing campaign.
Read moreA federal judge has paved the way for high-ranking women at Goldman Sachs to fight the bank on long-running gender-discrimination claims as a class.
Read morePublic school students across New York have standing to sue the state over tenured teachers they claim are ineffective, an appeals court has ruled.
Read moreRefusing to let Exxon sue over state fraud probes of its climate change denials, a federal judge called the oil giant’s scorched-earth legal offensive Thursday a “huge waste” of time and money.
Read moreNew York’s top court dismissed privacy claims Thursday over a supposed caricature of Lindsay Lohan depicted in the video game “Grand Theft Auto V.”
Read moreA New York appellate court refused on Thursday to patch a campaign finance gap known as the LLC loophole, allowing corporations to funnel donations through shadowy alter-egos.
Read moreA mother whose son was murdered by a contract killer should not have had his life insurance proceeds taken by her husband’s ex-wife, a New York appeals court ruled.
Read moreThe founder of professional-development group NXIVM was arraigned Tuesday afternoon in Texas federal court, sensationally accused of heading a secretive cult that branded female followers with cauterizing pens and keeping them as sex slaves.
Read moreThe New York State Assembly is not liable to six female staffers whose sexual harassment allegations brought down a Buffalo-area lawmaker, an appeals court ruled.
Read moreThe founder of international professional-development group NXIVM was arrested Monday on federal charges of running a cult-like organization in which female members were branded and considered sex slaves.
Read moreAfter two hours of oral arguments Thursday afternoon, a federal judge ruled from the bench to temporarily block Trump International Hotels from pursuing claims in international arbitration court against the owners of a former Trump hotel.
Read moreWary of the potential for prosecutorial abuse, the Supreme Court reined in a provision of the tax code Wednesday that helped put one septuagenarian away for 18 months.
Read moreThe film company co-founded by disgraced former producer Harvey Weinstein filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday.
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