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A former executive at the Anthony L. Jordan Health Corp. is suing the organization claiming she was fired because she disclosed the alleged misuse of federal government funding. Kimberlee A. Frarey filed an 18-page complaint in U.S. District Court in ...

St. John Fisher College and the University at Buffalo School of Law have announced a new 3+3 program that allows undergraduate students at Fisher to earn both their undergraduate and law degrees in six years, and hold down the cost of their ...

One of three men accused of defrauding 5LINX, a multi-level marketing company they founded out of millions of dollars, has pleaded guilty. Craig Jerabeck, 57, pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and filing a false tax ...

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The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct has recommended to the state Court of Appeals that Rochester City Court Judge Leticia D. Astacio should be removed from office. According to a news release, the Commission found that Astacio should ...

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Rochester city officials are suing a Gates neighborhood group claiming they are owed more than $5,000 for police services provided during a festival held in Rochester in August. The Little Italy Neighborhood Association was supposed to pay the city for ...

Vuzix Corp., the Henrietta smart glasses manufacturer, has filed an $80 million lawsuit accusing a Westchester County stock trader of maligning the company to profit from manipulating the stock price. New York City attorney Irwin Weltz filed the suit for ...

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Fairport-based LiDestri Foods Inc. is suing 7-Eleven Inc. for $3 million after a deal to make iced tea for the convenience stores flopped. LiDestri invested in production of the tea, but the stores ordered only a fraction of the amount ...

A Monroe County Court judge has overturned a Rochester City Court Judge who insisted that a tenant pay back rent she allegedly owed before he would consider her side of the story. In June 2017, City Curt Judge Teresa D. ...

A federal appeals court has upheld a $61 million award for a Syracuse company that won a patent infringement suit against Corning Optical Communications. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in Washington, D.C., on March 13, released ...

The wave of sexual harassment allegations against well-known public figures like Harvey Weinstein and Steve Wynn and the resulting #MeToo movement that has emboldened the average worker to come forward with claims of their own are forcing human resources professionals ...

Freedom Village USA, the Yates County facility for troubled youths, is awaiting a decision on its appeal of the state Labor Department’s claim that the organization owes more than $1.5 million in unpaid wages. “We have closing arguments, summations in ...

Juries are unpredictable. Just ask James E. Morris, a former Brighton town justice and acting Rochester City Court judge, who was once hired to play the role of judge in a mock trial staged to evaluate a real case. A ...

The head of a religious residential community for troubled youth in Yates County said a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing has nothing to do with the state Labor Department’s $1.5 million claim for unpaid wages. “I don’t think we’re going to ...

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEKHrYOPLLE State court officials have announced that they have finalized the $4.5 million purchase of an automated case management system for use by town and village courts statewide. The system developed by the Victor company, Service Education Inc., is already ...

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Monroe County officials have turned down a $2.6 million state grant because the funding would have paid for attorneys to represent indigent parents much earlier in Family Court cases, which they claim would interfere with child neglect and abuse investigations. ...

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