From his famous former clients to his adversaries, Michael Avenatti runs in some star-studded circles. Which of those A-list names can feature when the embattled lawyer begins trial next week took focus Wednesday at a marathon four-hour hearing.
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Two women who have accused Cuba Gooding Jr. of sexual misconduct will be allowed to testify at his trial on charges that he groped three other women at Manhattan bars in 2018 and 2019, a judge ruled on Wednesday.
Read moreA month after a controversial program to help homeless New Yorkers find permanent housing sparked litigation, a New Jersey city and county joined the fight Monday with separate lawsuits.
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Over six dozen trees in a Brooklyn park will survive another day after a New York court paused a renovation effort that drew objections from locals.
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With a nod to the endless stream of tweets emanating from the White House, a New York judge refused Friday to nix a defamation lawsuit from an advice columnist who says President Donald Trump raped her.
Read moreVideo footage of the area around Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell on a day he survived an apparent suicide attempt “no longer exists,” federal prosecutors told a judge Thursday.
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The judge overseeing Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial denied Thursday that his recent terse admonishment of the producer requires him to step aside from the long-delayed prosecution.
Read moreFlanked by her former Democratic rival Julian Castro, Elizabeth Warren rallied supporters in Brooklyn Tuesday with her standard stump speech, calling for an end to financial corruption and a better life for America’s working families.
Read moreNew rape charges against Harvey Weinstein in California are “next to meaningless” in his Manhattan criminal trial, a judge with the latter court ruled Tuesday, moving the long-delayed case into its next stage, jury selection.
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On the first Monday of a new decade, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo laid out a plan to add eight new tracks to New York City’s Penn Station, a once-grand rail hub through which he estimated 200 million people pass per year and which the governor himself has compared to Dante’s circles of hell.
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Harvey Weinstein is expected to be in a New York court Monday as his attorneys and a judge handle the final preparation for his trial on charges of rape and sexual assault.
Read moreA 60-year-old man who was kicked and punched while defending his partner during a $1 mugging on Christmas Eve has died.
Read moreA woman accused of slapping three people in one of a series of apparently anti-Semitic attacks reported throughout New York during Hanukkah was charged Saturday with attempted assault as a hate crime, court records show.
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Lawyers for Alec Baldwin applauded a judge Friday for tossing a slander claim tied to the Manhattan parking spot brawl that got their famous, and famously hot-headed, client arrested.
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New York City will pay $625,000 to the mother whose treatment at a Brooklyn benefits office went viral after uniformed officers were filmed last year ripping her baby from her arms.
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On a metal walker studded with tennis balls, Harvey Weinstein pushed himself out of criminal court Wednesday with increased bail conditions after prosecutors alleged that the 67-year-old movie mogul been derelict with his ankle monitor.
Read moreAmazon has signed a lease for a new office space in Manhattan that will house more than 1,500 employees, less than a year after pulling out of a deal for a larger headquarters in the borough of Queens after politicians and activists objected to nearly $3 billion in incentives.
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A month before the start of Harvey Weinstein’s felony sex crime trial, prosecutors urged a judge Friday to quintuple his cash bond to $5 million, citing more than 50 ankle-bracelet violations.
Read moreTrying to knock the teeth out of the first gun-rights case to go before the Supreme Court in nearly a decade, a lawyer for New York City told the justices Monday that the law being challenged is no longer enforced, thus mooting the issue.
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The Supreme Court is turning to gun rights for the first time in nearly a decade, even though those who brought the case, New York City gun owners, already have won changes to the regulation they challenged.
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