NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A former Rutgers University student who used a webcam to spy on his gay roommate was sentenced Monday to just 30 days in jail — a punishment ... Bill Dobbs, a New York gay rights activist who has long argued that ...

Dharun Ravi has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for spying on and intimidating his gay Rutgers University roommate, who then killed himself by jumping off New York's George Washington Bridge. The September 2010 death of Tyler Clementi, and Ravi's trial this year, thrust the issue of cyberbullying and prejudices against homosexuals into the national spotlight. Clementi, an 18-year-old freshman ...

WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a key provision of the Voting ... Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. It also covers certain counties in California, Florida, New York, North Carolina and South ...

An attorney for one of the parties in the divorce case cheered the ruling ... New York and Vermont. Lawmakers in Washington state have also passed a law permitting same-sex couples to marry, but it doesn't take effect until June and could ...

QUEENSBURY -- An 18-year-old man from Warrensburg was sentenced to 3 years in state prison Wednesday in Warren County Court following his guilty plea in a rape case. NEW YORK -- After 14 games and two nail-biting playoff series wins, the New York Rangers ...

A man in prison in Texas was getting nearly 4 out of 10 votes in West ... Democratic-leaning places such as New York and Vermont as well as conservative Iowa — where same-sex marriage is now legal. Six states and Washington, D.C., now recognize gay ...

Justice Stephen Breyer's Washington home was burglarized earlier this month, the second time he has been a victim of a crime this year, the New York Times reports. A housekeeper discovered the burglary on May 4. No one was home during the time.

FORT LEE, N.J. — New York Red Bulls defender Wilman Conde was arrested ... The 29-year-old Conde was released on his own recognizance pending a hearing in Fort Lee Municipal Court later this month.

Among defendants in the lawsuit are Attorney ... New York woman who faked having cancer so donors would pay for her wedding and Caribbean honeymoon is being released after less than two months in jail. Jessica Vega apologized Wednesday in Orange ...

WASHINGTON, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Crowell & Moring LLP has added two prominent litigators to its growing New York office roster. The additions are Litigation Group partners Edwin M. Baum, a seasoned New York litigator whose practice is ...

“I tell them that the minute they leave my office or end our phone call, they should immediately contact a personal bankruptcy lawyer and take steps to ... in the affluent Kalorama section of Washington. She said she feared she would lose ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Supermodel Linda Evangelista and a billionaire French businessman have reached an agreement in their child-support fight. Lawyers for Miss Evangelista and Francois-Henri Pinault plan to give the details to a magistrate on Tuesday.

NEW YORK — Among the slick, million-dollar ads for the likes of Pepsi and Honda during the Super Bowl this Sunday, viewers in Washington will see a far ... Two Supreme Court decisions - District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v.

BUFFALO — A man plunged at least 180 feet Monday over Niagara Falls and survived ... find the auction house defied the court order. A Heritage spokesman didn’t immediately respond to an email. NEW YORK — Federal officials say a New ...

McNamara, McGeorge Bundy, Walt Rostow and other ambitious, cerebral and often idealistic postwar policy makers who came to Washington from business and ... His father was a corporate lawyer and New Jersey attorney general from 1924 to 1929.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Proskauer announced today that Ralph C. Ferrara, one of the nation’s foremost securities and corporate governance lawyers, will join the firm together with his highly regarded colleagues, Partners Ann M. Ashton, Jonathan E.

Founded in 1988, LeClairRyan provides business counsel and client representation in corporate ... Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, D.C., the firm has approximately 350 attorneys representing ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Dominant CBS shuffled its schedule for the fall ... “The Mentalist,” where Baker plays a brainy crime-solver, shifts from Thursday to Sundays. Dennis Quaid and Michael Chiklis will star in a new drama about Las Vegas that ...

Well, they haven't. Forty-three Catholic institutions, including the University of Notre Dame, Catholic University, and the archdioceses of New York and Washington, filed suit Monday in federal court to overturn the mandate. The U.S. Conference of Catholic ...

Washington, DC – The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) obtained a federal court consent order of permanent injunction requiring defendant, Kent R.E. Whitney (Whitney), a former floor broker of Chicago, Ill., to pay a $600,000 civil monetary penalty for making false and misleading statements to Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) representatives, futures commission merchants (FCMs ...

Archdioceses of New York and Washington, D.C., and the University of Notre Dame, among others. More than 40 different organizations are involved, said Mickey Pohl, lead attorney for the Erie and Pittsburgh plaintiffs. They want a federal judge ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court ... the states of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. It also covers certain counties in California, Florida, New York, North Carolina and South Dakota ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an Obama administration appeal arguing that attorneys, journalists and human rights groups have no right to sue over a law making it easier for U.S. intelligence agencies to eavesdrop on foreign communications. The justices said they would review a ruling by a U.S. appeals court in New York that the plaintiffs have the legal right ...

The New York Court of Appeals ruled May 8 that viewing child pornography online is not a crime, according to ... for longtime Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, has been placed on leave after the Washington Blade inquired about an email he ...

Obama-appointed Judge Katherine Forrest of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York disagreed that the provision is merely a restatement of existing federal law, stating ... citizen living in Michigan makes a one-time ...

It was also suggested a public “chess park”, modelled on New York City’s Washington ... She told Team Hamilton that, if elected she expected them to “get the chickens off Court Street”. Voters in Thursday’s municipal election will ...

An attorney for one of the parties in the divorce case cheered the ruling ... The states are Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont. Lawmakers in Washington state have also passed a law permitting same-sex couples ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attacking key prosecution evidence, Roger Clemens' lawyer went through the items in a Miller ... McNamee tampered with a dead body when he was a New York City policeman, he lied to investigators looking into a Florida incident in ...

An attorney for one of the parties in the divorce case cheered the ruling ... The states are Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont. Lawmakers in Washington state have also passed a law permitting same-sex couples to marry ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a key provision of the Voting ... It also covers certain counties in California, Florida, New York, North Carolina and South Dakota, as well as some local jurisdictions in Michigan ...

NEW YORK - Roman Catholic dioceses, schools and other groups sued the Obama administration today in eight states...

Chen Guangcheng speaks to media upon arrival at New York University campus. Photo courtesy: AFP WASHINGTON, May 21, 2012 (AFP) - The United States has achieved a rare human rights breakthrough with China by negotiating the departure of dissident Chen Guangcheng, but few are ready to predict that the case will set a precedent.

New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania hold primaries Tuesday. The three biggest questions at this point are: How much closer will Mitt Romney get to the 1,144 delegates he needs to lock up the GOP presidential nomination, what will the turnout be, and will Newt Gingrich have a strong showing in Delaware?Gingrich hinted in an NBC interview on Monday that he will have to ...

The lawyers will join Duane Morris in the New York, Boston, and Washington, D.C. offices. Duane Morris LLP announced today that it is adding 16 Dewey & LeBoeuf lawyers to the firm, with extensive experience in areas such as corporate, insurance ...

Pierce, the former vice chairman ... Several more departures occurred on Monday, including that of Geoffrey H. Coll, a white-collar criminal defense lawyer in Washington who defected to Schiff Hardin after 14 years at Dewey.

Lyle Roberts, a securities litigator in Washington, joined Cooley ... Dewey continued to handle prominent assignments. Its lawyers represented the Los Angeles Dodgers in the baseball team’s bankruptcy and eventual sale. A team of merger ...

NEW YORK — Roman Catholic dioceses, schools and other groups sued the Obama administration Monday in eight states and the District of Columbia over a federal mandate that most employers provide workers free birth control as part of their health...

Maryland's highest court ruled Friday that same-sex couples can divorce ... The states are Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont. Lawmakers in Washington state have also passed a law permitting same-sex couples ...

WASHINGTON — Among the 29 questions the Roger Clemens jury ... “I won’t ask that,” U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton declared during a bench conference with trial attorneys to decide which juror questions he would read. “That’s for them to ...

tax and employee benefits. The lawyers will join Duane Morris in the New York, Boston, and Washington, D.C. offices.  The combination builds on Duane Morris' broad national insurance, energy and technology practices, offering clients an ...