The lawsuit was filed by Deshanae L. Brown, who alleges she was subjected to discrimination based on her race, sex, and disability, citing violations of federal and state laws including Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether New York City Council member Farah Louis and her sister, Debbie Louis, accepted bribes or kickbacks tied to BHRAGS Home Care Inc., a company that shifted to running emergency migrant shelters in 2022.
Despite that red light, he continued straight through that red light at a high rate of speed and struck a 2019 Alfa Romeo operated by Nassau County Police Officer Patricia Espinosa. Patricia Espinosa's vehicle was found upside down at the scene of this horrific crash. It took emergency responders over 30 minutes to extricate her from that vehicle.
Officers tried to pull over the vehicle, which was stolen from a location in Riverhead, and the driver kept going, police said, adding that the vehicle was later found parked and unoccupied at the intersection of Sheridan and Fairview drives.
President Donald Trump appointed his former personal lawyer, Alina Habba, to lead the prominent New Jersey office early in his term before a judge, Matthew Brann, disqualified Habba for sidestepping Senate confirmation. Habba's replacements, three prosecutors, picked by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, could be in a similar predicament.
An energetic, innovative leader and advocate for equity and inclusion, her expertise, unwavering commitment to equal justice, and problem-solving approach will greatly benefit the Third Judicial District and Capital Region residents.
Noll's defense attorney Steven Gaitman said the evidence from the black box on Noll's Ford F-250, surveillance video from a nearby store and damage to the bike showed the retired tradesman did not intentionally hit Baez.
We hope the registry acts as a deterrent to other people and we also hope that other concerned citizens are more likely to call it in because they know the Saratoga County Sheriff and the Saratoga County District Attorney are going to be taking it very, very seriously,
Prenups have gone from a tool of the ultra-wealthy, carrying a whiff of scandal, to a more widespread request for aspirational young couples with few assets. The staff writer Jennifer Wilson spoke with the celebrity divorce attorney Laura Wasser, and found that generations who grew up in the era of universal no-fault divorce "just don't trust marriage" as their elders did; "they want it in writing," and they have developed apps that make it easy.
With this legislation, all of these existing agreements would be void. The legislation would also prohibit federal agents from using local detention centers for civil immigration enforcement, mass raids or the transportation of detainees, and authorizes New Yorkers to bring state-level civil actions against federal officers who violate their U.S. constitutional rights. Hochul has also proposed legislation to ensure sensitive locations, such as homes, schools and doctors' offices, are protected from civil immigration enforcement without a judicial warrant.
If you're one of the thousands of people who call Glen Cove, New York home, there are plenty of things to do both at home and in the community - but if you're looking to take up pickleball without leaving your house's yard, you might encounter a bump in the road. As the Long Island Press's Casey Fahrer reports, the city's government recently implemented a three-month ban on new pickleball facilities on private property.
Although New Yorker politicians consider themselves the national leader in civil rights, New York still ranks third in the nation for wrongful convictions and New York City has the third-highest number of exonerations nationwide. Each case represents a life derailed: families broken, years stolen, careers destroyed, childhoods lived without a parent. Behind many of these injustices is a familiar culprit: law-enforcement misconduct.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani's legal administration is taking the reins with an ambitious plan to expand the city Law Department by at least 200 lawyers. But who are his top lawyers and how will their different roles intersect with his agenda? Just before his inauguration, Mamdani named longtime public interest attorney Steven Banks as his pick for the city's next corporation counsel, the head of the massive agency that manages the city's litigation, and named Ramzi Kassem as chief counsel, the mayor's personal lawyer.
New York is an incongruous state. We're home to fabulous wealth - if the state were a country, it would have the tenth largest economy in the world - but also the highest rate of wealth inequality. We're among the most diverse - but also the most segregated. We passed the nation's most ambitious climate law - but haven't been meeting its deadlines and continue to subsidize industries hastening the climate crisis.
You need to calm down in court and stop emailing him multi-page letters asking him to intervene in your cases. I think it's the tenor of our times, Sunshine, the statewide coordinating matrimonial judge, told a room of more than 100 attorneys at the Bar Association's Family Law Luncheon. I need to urge everyone to take it down a tone.
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In a disturbing incident in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, an Orthodox Jewish family was targeted in a violent, hate-fueled attack while celebrating Shabbat. Isharae Summers, 35, allegedly stalked a 26-year-old father, his wife, and their four young children-ranging in age from six months to six years-near the corner of Nostrand and Willoughby avenues. According to court records, Summers unleashed a torrent of antisemitic threats, screaming, "I'm gonna kill you Jews" and "Your kids are dead tonight," before sucker punching the father in the chest and head.