The nearly $1 billion Constitution Pipeline project, which had been designed to take natural gas from Pennsylvania’s shale gas fields to metropolitan New York and New England, has been abandoned after years of legal regulatory challenges made it economically unfeasible, a spokeswoman for project partner Duke Energy said Monday.
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A Manhattan judge ruled Monday that the National Rifle Association cannot intercept documents related to an investigation by the New York state attorney general’s office into its nonprofit status.
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More than two years after allegations of a decades-long pattern of sexual predation upended his Hollywood legacy, Harvey Weinstein was found guilty Monday on two of the less serious counts against him.
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Facing scrutiny over nondisclosure agreements used to quiet female accusers over the years, Democratic presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg said Friday that any individual who wishes to speak out should come forward.
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Refusing to delay a case that has been a thorn in the side of the Trump administration, the Second Circuit refused Friday to let Turkey’s state-run Halkbank delay its arraignment on record-breaking money-laundering charges.
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A jazz musician planning an international tour across Europe, saxophonist Chris Ward saw several likely drawbacks when he received an email on Tuesday night officially denying his application to the Global Entry program.
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Two months after ducking civil liability over its climate crisis policies, Exxon took the fight to the Second Circuit on Tuesday, vying to turn the tables on the state attorneys general who accused it of fraud.
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Detailing evidence that the movie producer “tricked and deprived” young women in his orbit to sustain his control over them, a New York prosecutor urged jurors Friday to convict Harvey Weinstein as “an abusive rapist.”
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When he was merely 90 years old, U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein had not slowed down his trailblazing practice of transforming the way criminal justice looks and feels.
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Demanding $50 million in damages, a New Yorker claims in court that Rick James raped her at a group home in 1979, two years before the release of the late singer’s career-defining track “Super Freak.”
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“Believe women,” the slogan goes. But when it comes to deciding whether to convict Harvey Weinstein of rape, a defense lawyer urged the jury Thursday not to let a fad fill in for flimsy evidence.
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New York’s highest court grappled Tuesday with a trendy and critical question: are food delivery drivers for apps like Postmates considered employees or independent contractors?
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Hours after leading trade groups and developers filed suit, a judge hit pause on efforts to end the longstanding New York City real estate tradition of new tenants paying a brokerage fee before they can move in.
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New York state brought a federal complaint Monday challenging President Donald Trump’s move to freeze New Yorkers out of the “trusted traveler” run by Homeland Security meant to speed U.S. re-entry after a visit abroad.
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New York residents will be cut off from “trusted traveler” programs that speed their re-entry into the country, a senior Homeland Security official said Thursday, blaming a new state law that prohibits immigration agents from access to motor vehicle records.
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A New York judge voluntarily agreed to step away from ever serving again on the bench to keep a lid on allegations that he made abusive demands of his staff.
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Martin Shkreli, currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for securities fraud, is in legal trouble yet again.
Read moreG-Max Management and a dozen others sued New York State in federal court, claiming its Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019, on rent control, is unconstitutional.
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