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Madison County Sheriff's Office 'Shop with a Sheriff' event in 2019 (photo: Madison County Sheriff's Office). SYRACUSE, N.Y. — It's that time of year when you'll find law enforcement officials wandering around store aisles with children to buy toys. Every holiday season, law enforcement agencies across Central New York hold 'Shop with a Cop' events. The Madison County Sheriff's Office will ho...

BERLIN, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Bayer (BAYGn.DE) faces a billion-dollar investor class action lawsuit in Germany over the takeover of U.S. seed manufacturer Monsanto, specialist law firm Tilp Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft said on Wednesday. Tilp said it was representing more than 250 institutional investors and a large number of private investors who believed Bayer misled them about the economic risks...

License plate readers and vehicle recognition cameras may come to on- and off-ramps and state highways in and around Oakland, after Mayor Libby Schaaf asked Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday to have the cameras installed in the city to curb violent crime. On Monday, the 131st person was killed in violence in Oakland this year, the greatest number of homicides in 10 years. Shootings, armed robberie...

Calvin Curtis had credit cards with combined limits of more than $92,000. Now, he can’t charge more than $2K. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Estate attorney Calvin Curtis, who pleaded guilty to federal charges of wire fraud and money laundering earlier this month, has been ordered to immediately resign as a trustee, wrap up his law practice within 30 days and tell all of his cur...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks in Wildwood on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021. (Copyright 2021 by WKMG ClickOrlando - All rights reserved.) WILDWOOD, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis was in Wildwood on Wednesday to announce his support of the Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees Act, or Stop the Woke. The legislative proposal would secure the Florida Department of Education’s ban on critical race the...

Emilee Carpenter and the Alliance Defending Freedom have lost the first round in their challenge to New York's public accommodations law. Emilee Carpenter and the Alliance Defending Freedom have lost the first round in their challenge to New York's public accommodations law. Sign up for our PoliticsNY newsletter for the latest coverage and to stay informed about the 2021 elections in your dis...

Spc. Vanessa Guillén. MUST CREDIT: United States Army photo WASHINGTON — Historic reforms to how the military handles reports of crimes including sexual assault and murder are headed to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law, spurred by mistakes at Fort Hood, where Army Spc. Vanessa Guillén was killed last year by a fellow soldier. The Houston native — whose reports of sexual harass...

Credit: iStock Negotiation, research and writing, trial preparation, and advocacy in the courtroom are just a few of the variety of legal skills practiced by clinical students this semester. But in one particular clinic, students practicing these skills share one thing in common: their clients are children. Austin Riddick ’23, Katie Martinez ’23, and Madelyn Chen ’22 are students in this seme...

Welcome to Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass, a weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys. A New York jury begins deliberations in an opioid trial that ended with a last-minute motion for mistrial. A federal judge probing lawyers who worked with Tom Girardi on Lion Air crash settlements ordered bank records and briefs detailing his authority to sanction them all. Find out wh...

Washington, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) filed a notice in court providing its memo withdrawing the agency’s January 15, 2021, Record of Decision that green-lighted its proposed 2020 Yazoo Pumps plan, a destructive agricultural drainage project in Mississippi’s South Delta. The Corps cited the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent restoring of its 2008 ...