A New York state court on Thursday blocked Texas from filing a legal action against a New York doctor for prescribing and sending abortion pills to a Texas woman. The unprecedented move catapults the interstate abortion wars to a new level, setting the stage for a high-stakes legal battle between states that ban abortion and … Read more
Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York plans to announce on Thursday that she will not exercise her authority to remove Mayor Eric Adams from office at this time, but will seek to impose strict new guardrails on his administration of New York City, according to two officials familiar with her thinking. Ms. Hochul’s actions could … Read more
The Trump administration sued New York on Wednesday over its migrant policies, accusing state officials of prioritizing “illegal aliens over American citizens,” escalating its political and legal battles with states over deportations. Attorney General Pam Bondi, in her first news conference, specifically cited New York’s “green light” law, which allows people in the state to … Read more
CNN — “We don’t need or want a secret police station in our great city,” said Breon Peace, the US attorney for the Eastern District of New York on Monday – expressing the likely feeling of many Americans at the news that the FBI has arrested two alleged agents for the Chinese government accused of … Read more
Washington, DC CNN — Even as rents are cooling in some parts of the country, it has never cost more to rent a Manhattan apartment as it did in March. Typically, rental activity builds from the spring to a peak in late summer, but median rent last month was the highest on record, according to … Read more
Reuters — The third time’s the charm in the New York bar exam for Kei Komuro, a law clerk at law firm Lowenstein Sandler and the husband of Japan’s Princess Mako. Komuro’s name appeared on the list of those who passed New York’s July bar exam released October 20, after the Japanese press zeroed in … Read more
CNN — Eight women who say they were sexually assaulted by movie producer Harvey Weinstein will testify at his criminal trial in Los Angeles over the coming weeks, prosecutors said in opening statements Monday. “Each of these women came forward independent of each other, and none of them knew one another,” prosecutor Paul Thompson told … Read more