Governor Cuomo and other officials around New York are expressing shock and sorrow after a justice of the state’s highest court was found dead in the Hudson River on Wednesday. Police are investigating how Justice Sheila Abdus-Salaam came to be in the water. A preliminary report says the NYPD found no signs of criminality or […]
New York’s highest court has ruled that a woman who was once in a lesbian relationship has a right to see the couple’s child, even though she doesn’t have a biological or adoptive connection to the child. You can read the entire ruling here. The Court of Appeals says New York’s 25-year-old standard of parental […]
New York’s highest court has ruled that Democrat Steve Glickman can’t run for the state Senate in November. The Court of Appeals ruled this afternoon that Glickman isn’t eligible to run against Republican Senator Rich Funke…. because he doesn’t meet the state’s five-year residency requirement. The court ruled after hearing arguments in the case […]