A lawsuit seeking to represent any woman with a claim against Harvey Weinstein can proceed on sex-trafficking grounds, a judge ruled Thursday, as he dramatically shrank the scope of an action trying to treat the disgraced movie producer and various companies like a mob organization.
Read moreA Brooklyn judge on Thursday swiftly tossed a lawsuit filed by anti-vaxxers who objected to an emergency vaccination order in the midst of a measles outbreak that has sickened hundreds in New York City.
Read moreThe New York City Board of Health voted unanimously Wednesday to continue an emergency measles vaccination order, part of bid to squelch an outbreak that has already sickened hundreds.
Read moreRecasting claims that it spent nearly a decade shaping in federal court, a Paris gallery demands more than $18 million from a New York art dealer that it accuses of spoiling its contract with a now-deceased Chinese-French painter.
Read moreNot long after confessing that he sent 16 pipe bombs to prominent Democrats, financiers, celebrities and two CNN newsrooms, the man who came to become known as the #MAGABomber got a case of cold feet.
Read moreA mandatory order for families in an Orthodox Jewish enclave of Brooklyn to vaccinate their children for measles spurred a lawsuit Monday from five parents.
Read moreHe hounded his ex with text messages, emailed her boss to get her fired, and in 2017 used her name when he sent a string of bomb threats to Jewish targets.
Read moreAn Orthodox Jewish enclave of Brooklyn faces a mandatory vaccination order after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency Tuesday, responding to a measles outbreak that has sickened hundreds.
Read moreA month after ruling that landlords could be liable for ignoring racial harassment and discrimination in their buildings, the Second Circuit withdrew the 2-1 decision Monday without explanation.
Read moreFormer “Smallville” actress Allison Mack pleaded guilty Monday to charges related to the cult NXIVM, a case involving sex slaves who were branded with the initials of the group’s leader.
Read moreAdmitted mail bomber Cesar Sayoc has retreated from his guilty plea in a letter to the judge presiding over his criminal case, claiming he admitted guilt under “extreme emotional circumstances,” and did not fully comprehend court proceedings.
Read moreCalling his “life changed forever,” a Polish immigrant who says he was clobbered in broad daylight by Alec Baldwin has sued the actor for assault, battery and slander.
Read moreNew Yorkers will soon see some big changes after the state Senate signed off this weekend on a ban on plastic shopping bags as well as congestion pricing when they passed the state’s 2020 budget.
Read moreDoug E. Fresh, a celebrated rapper whose mother died in 2014, claims in court that the three-story apartment building he owns in Harlem has become infested with rodents because of shoddy construction work next door.
Read moreIt didn’t pass the flick test. Siding with a sous chef who was convicted for possessing an illegal gravity knife, a federal judge struck down New York’s ban against the so-called “successor of the switchblade” on Wednesday as unconstitutionally vague.
Read moreSounding the death knell for one of the world’s last mechanical clocks, New York’s highest court signed off Thursday on a plan to electrify a timepiece in the former headquarters of the New York Life Insurance Co.
Read moreAt a dramatic hearing in the cult-like case ensnaring Seagram’s liquor heiress Clare Bronfman, it was confirmed Wednesday that Michael Avenatti met with the government on Bronfman’s behalf just days before the lawyer himself was charged with trying to extort $20 million from Nike.
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Seventy years after Nazis looted it from Ukraine’s largest art museum as the Soviet tank offensive pushed German occupying forces out of Kiev, a Rococo painting attributed to 18th century painter Pierre Louis Goudreaux surfaced at a New York auction in 2013.
Read moreWhen he mailed out 16 pipe bombs to the perceived political, financial and media elite late last year, Cesar Sayoc delivered what many interpreted as a howl of anger from the underbelly of “MAGA” America.
Read moreHow — and where — should victims collect reparations for a genocide? In New York, an effort to hold present-day Germany responsible for what is grimly called the first genocide of the 20th century hit a setback.
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