Subpoenaed as part of the New York attorney general’s investigation, Eric Trump failed Wednesday to put off being interviewed about how the president’s assets were described on financial statements that the Trump Organization used to secure loans and various tax benefits.
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Finding that multiple managerial failures under the Trump administration have undermined the mission of the U.S. Postal Service, a federal judge ordered the agency on Monday to preapprove all overtime for the upcoming election and to prioritize all ballot-related mail.
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Several New York teachers unions sued the state in the Albany County Supreme Court on Tuesday after New York withheld $5.2 billion budgeted to help elementary and secondary schools cope with the fiscal impacts of Covid-19.
Read moreThe Second Circuit reversed a ruling that had blocked the enforcement of part of New York’s Opioid Stewardship Act, which requires opioid manufacturers and distributors to collectively pay $100 million annually to support statewide programs that provide opioid treatment, recovery, prevention and education services.
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Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren fired the police chief and suspended her top lawyer and communications director Monday in the continuing upheaval over the suffocation death of Daniel Prude.
Read moreNew York’s e-STOP law and a corrections department directive that bans sex offenders from using social media are likely unconstitutional, a federal court in the state ruled, enjoining the ban from applying wholesale to sex offenders who did not use the internet to facilitate the commission of their underlying offense.
Read moreA federal judge in New York partially vacated a new Labor Department rule, which changed the joint employment standard of the Fair Labor Standards Act, finding the department did not consider the rule’s cost to workers, which was estimated to be $1 billion a year.
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The top two police chiefs of New York’s third-largest city resigned Tuesday after several days of protests and public outcry in response to the suffocation death of a Black man last March.
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New York’s attorney general on Saturday moved to form a grand jury to investigate the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died earlier this year after Rochester police placed a hood over his head and held him down.
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The mayor of New York’s third largest city on Thursday suspended seven police officers involved in the suffocation death of a Black man last March.
Read moreThe Second Circuit upheld the dismissal of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association’s claims that the state’s requirement that anyone who wants to carry a concealed weapon outside the home had to show a “proper cause” to do so. The requirement does not violate the Second Amendment, the court ruled.
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Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, once one of the most powerful politicians in the state, started his prison sentence Wednesday after years of fending off going behind bars.
Read moreA skilled nursing residential health care facility in New York claims the state’s health department improperly required it to accept admissions without regard for whether those residents were contagious with Covid-19.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a sealed petition against the Trump Organization on the eve of the Republican National Convention, seeking to compel disclosure on an unspecified topic.
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With 75 five days before the 2020 presidential election, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law Thursday a package of reforms that will let New Yorkers immediately request an application to vote by mail and ensure that all absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day on Nov. 3 will be counted if received up to a week later.
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Describing the White House’s expansive view of executive power as dangerous to democracy, a federal judge on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s second attempt to scuttle the probe of his finances in New York.
Read moreThe Second Circuit vacated a $21 million award granted to Tiffany & Co. on its trademark claims against Costco’s use of the word “Tiffany” on point-of-sale signs for diamond engagement rings. Costco has presented a triable question as to whether it used the word “Tiffany” in good faith.
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A federal judge in New York Monday blocked new rules proposed by the Trump administration’s, which would have removed anti-discrimination protections for transgender patients in programs funded by the Affordable Care Act.
Read moreA federal court in New York dismissed the National Rifle Association’s suit against the state and Governor Andrew Cuomo over gun shop closures during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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President Donald Trump’s legal team has tried to brand a New York grand jury probe as reheated leftovers from the Michael Cohen prosecution, but Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance splashed cold water on that theory Friday.
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