Top NY Court Weighs Penance for Judge’s Foul Language
Representing a judge facing removal from office over his use of the c-word, a lawyer told New York’s highest court Tuesday not to embrace so harsh a punishment for a first offense.
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Police-Reform Goals Pushed Aside as NY Leaders Focus on Looting
New Yorkers heard markedly different responses from officials Tuesday on widespread looting that gripped parts of the city overnight.
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Young Protesters March Through Bed-Stuy Until Met by Police Phalanx
Activists in Brooklyn protesting police violence held a peaceful march through the borough on the first night of New York City’s curfew after a weekend of demonstrations across the city that were marred by mayhem and an aggressive police response.
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Disease and Racial Injustice Put Public Health Goals at Odds in NYC
Focused on pandemic response as much as racism, New York City epidemiologists warned Monday that protests over the police killing of an unarmed black man can cause Covid-19 infections to surge in the same minority groups fighting for justice.
Read moreNew York City Reopening Is in Sight, as Transit and Other Questions Overhang
The first phase of New York City’s midpandemic reopening begins June 8 with free face coverings for all businesses that need them.
Read moreAbortion Mandate
A class of Roman Catholic groups claim in a federal summons with notice that New York effectively denied their exemption from the government mandate to cover the insurance costs for abortion procedures by passing off eligibility determinations to a private health plan.
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New York Courts Reopen Months Into Lockdown With Rush of Lawsuits
A two-month moratorium on new complaints in New York City has not caused major tort lawyers to pare back their workload.
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Drive to Work: de Blasio Gives New Yorkers Tone-Deaf Advice on Mass Transit
As the city prepares to gradually reopen its economy after a devastating monthslong wave of Covid-19 that killed at least 21,000 New Yorkers, one gaping question remains: how employees will get to work.
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No Talk of Pay Cuts as NYC Mayor Calls for Help on Budget Shortfall
Predicting a $9 billion revenue drop after months of battle with Covid-19, and the attendant economic slowdowns, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio pleaded Wednesday for federal assistance.
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New York Is Testing More but Mass-Transit Issue Goes Unanswered
New York City will more than double its diagnostic testing of the novel coronavirus over the next two months, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday, touting the 180 testing sites that will be open across the city by June’s end.
Read moreDA: Son Confesses to Fatally Stabbing Dad During Zoom Call
A Long Island man suspected of fatally stabbing his father on a live Zoom call confessed to the caught-on-camera killing after police found him trying to wash blood off his body with Dr. Pepper, prosecutors said Friday.
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NY Pulls Back From Virus Micro-Data as It Fights to Reopen Safely
Urging caution and discipline as the city crawls toward a phased reopening expected in June, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday offered a new set of indicators by which to measure the spread of the disease shown to have now killed 1 in every 400 city residents.
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9/11 Families Cry Foul Over Saudi Diplomatic Immunity Claims
Investigating a former Saudi consular official in Los Angeles, attorneys for 9/11 families hit a roadblock in their longstanding litigation to hold the kingdom liable for the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history: claims of diplomatic immunity.
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Judge in Census Case Slaps Feds on ‘Unacceptable’ Discovery Breach
A federal judge sanctioned the Department of Justice on Thursday for failing to turn over more than a tenth of the files required in the litigation over the 2020 census.
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NY Leaders Deny Blame on Shutdown Delay Tied to 35,000 Deaths
A phased reopening of New York City could be weeks away. “All roads are leading to the first half of June,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday.
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Drop in Vaccinations Raises Alarms in Virus-Consumed NYC
MANHATTAN (CN) — Vaccination rates in New York City have dropped precipitously in the pandemic era, a trend that does
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Cuomo Focuses on Sports as NYC Summer School Numbers Triple
On a day of grim data from city schools, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo doubled down on his desire to see sports come back to his pandemic-ravaged state, saying they could bring an economic boost while also entertaining fans still at home.
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New York Loses Bid to Cancel Uncontested Presidential Primary
MANHATTAN (CN) — New York must reinstate the Democratic presidential primary election in June that it had attempted to cancel,
Read moreNYC Rolls Out Own Tests for Covid-19, Says Feds Were No Help
New York City is successfully manufacturing its own Covid-19 diagnostic test kits, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday, striving toward a threshold set by the governor to safely reopen the economy.
Read moreCanceled NY Primary Brings Power of Delegates Into Focus
Reaching back to the medieval charter that shaped the U.S. Constitution, a lawyer for the erstwhile presidential candidate Andrew Yang made his case Friday to have the Second Circuit safeguard New York’s primary election.
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