Coincidentally timed with efforts by the southeastern states to brace for Hurricane Irma, New York’s highest court focused Thursday on whether government offices have a evidence-preservation duties in the face of “once-in-a-lifetime” storms.
Read moreTelemundo Network Group faces a federal copyright complaint over its article on an Instagram-famous feline named Samson.
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Known on the airwaves for gabbing about gambling, sports-radio personality Craig Carton stands accused in a federal complaint Wednesday of digging himself out of debt with a $5.6 million securities fraud.
Read moreDays after closing its first season with a Las Vegas championship tournament, America’s new basketball league Big3 faces a fraud suit in Manhattan.
Read moreBringing a $80 million suit over fame-adjacent Squid Nice, a music label says the rapper’s manager is playing both sides of an exclusivity deal.
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Settling the first lawsuit to challenge the travel ban, the Trump administration agreed to inform all people turned away from airports because of the order of their right to reapply with groups eager to provide free legal counsel.
Read moreThe New York Post faces a libel suit after quoting an anonymous source as calling Judge Doris Ling-Cohan with the Manhattan Supreme Court “lazy.”
Read moreNew York officials brought charges Thursday against a pharmacy owner they say fleeced Medicaid to the tune of $11 million by billing for unnecessary drug refills, including for expensive HIV medications.
Read moreA New York chiropractor and his office-manager wife must face discrimination claims from the yoga teacher they fired in a purported fit of jealousy, a state appeals court ruled.
Read moreEyeing retirement this fall, a frustrated federal magistrate urged New York City on Thursday to get its database on the Central Park Five case rolling by November.
Read moreDescribing herself as “heartbroken,” the mother of a Guinean immigrant killed by police spoke at a prayer service Tuesday morning before New York federal prosecutors announced her son’s killer would not be charged.
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Prosecutors filed charges Tuesday against a criminal court worker accused of pocketing $163,242 in fines he collected from hundreds of New Yorkers.
Read moreComplaining about his exclusion from New York City’s first mayoral debate on Wednesday, a Democrat claims in court that his embattled opponent is trying to tip the playing field.
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Ousted Roots percussionist Frank “Knuckles” Williams hit his former bandmates with a federal trademark suit.
Read moreAlleging unpaid royalties for the use of its music in the film “Chef,” among other vehicles, the influential yet obscure 1980s disco-punk group Liquid Liquid has brought a federal complaint.
Read moreThe defense in the upcoming Chelsea bombings trial successfully lobbied Tuesday to have evidence of the suspect’s shootout with police and subsequent arrest kept from the jury’s ears.
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Costco owes more than $19 million, a federal judge ruled Monday, for selling engagement rings it named after the storied jewelry shop Tiffany’s.
Read moreDMX faces home confinement and ankle monitoring ahead of his upcoming tax-evasion trial, a federal judge ruled Friday, declining to send the rapper to jail for drug use and travel that violated bail terms.
Read moreCiting reports that accused tax evader DMX broke the terms of his $3 million bail, a federal judge ordered the Ruff Ryder rapper-actor to appear in court Friday.
Read moreFour New York City boroughs collectively purged more than 644,000 decade-old summonses for low-level offenses Wednesday, with only deep-red Staten Island spurning the gesture toward criminal-justice reform.
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