Sat Jan 21, 2012 2:33 PM EST
With spring training just weeks away, nobody's working harder to prepare for the New York Mets' future than their lawyers.
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Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:42 PM EST
A judge has ruled demonstrators don't have a First Amendment right to protest Friday afternoon in front of a New York City federal courthouse that has hosted several major terrorism trials.
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Wed Dec 21, 2011 4:22 PM EST
A former hedge fund consultant was sentenced Wednesday to 2 1/2 years in prison for insider trading, a crime that a judge said seemed to be growing in prevalence despite a continual crackdown by authorities against it.
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Tue Dec 6, 2011 8:59 PM EST
The U.S. government has dropped its New York deportation case against an Argentine lesbian who married a U.S. citizen, marking an improvement in the treatment of cases of same-sex couples involving a legal alien and a U.S. citizen, a lawyer for the woman said Tuesday.
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Mon Nov 28, 2011 12:05 PM EST
A judge on Monday used unusually harsh language to strike down a $285 million settlement between Citigroup and the Securities and Exchange Commission over toxic mortgage securities, saying he couldn't tell whether the deal was fair and criticizing regulators for shielding the public from details of the firm's wrongdoing.
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Sun Nov 6, 2011 1:37 PM EST
The most bankable star witness at the trial of an ex-Soviet officer known as the Merchant of Death was a former drug dealer turned U.S. government-sponsored actor who became one of the highest paid informants in history.
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Tue Oct 18, 2011 1:56 PM EDT
A lawyer for Viacom Inc. warned an appeals court panel Tuesday that there will be greater exploitation of copyright material on the Internet if the court lets YouTube get away with a business built on "rampant copyright infringement."
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Sun Oct 9, 2011 12:05 PM EDT
The prison term awaiting a one-time billionaire hedge fund founder convicted of insider trading charges is unpredictable at best in a Manhattan courthouse where judges vary considerably in their assessment of how justice should be dispersed at sentencing.
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Tue Sep 27, 2011 5:49 PM EDT
A judge said Tuesday that a trustee recovering money for investors who lost in jailed financier Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme "might well prevail" in efforts to recover some of nearly $300 million in fictitious profits he claims the owners of the New York Mets received from Madoff.
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Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:33 PM EDT
A judge agreed Wednesday to suppress statements an ex-Soviet officer dubbed the Merchant of Death made to U.S. investigators before he was transferred from Thailand to New York last year to face charges he sold arms to terrorists.
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Mon Aug 8, 2011 4:26 PM EDT
A hotel maid who accuses ex-International Monetary Fund boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault sued him Monday over what she calls a "violent and sadistic" attack in an upscale suite that left her life "in shambles."
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Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:22 PM EDT
Families and friends of some of the 230 people killed when a Paris-bound jumbo jet mysteriously exploded in the sky off the Long Island coast are planning to mark the early evening moment with a quiet beach gathering Sunday.
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Tue Jul 12, 2011 11:15 PM EDT
A champion Chinese gymnast who was paralyzed in an accident at the 1998 Goodwill Games is grateful toward the United States after reaching a deal with insurance companies to provide her with medical care and rehabilitation in China, along with financial help, her lawyer said Tuesday.
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Sun Jul 10, 2011 12:16 PM EDT
A Harvard-trained administrator thought she had heard it all as a gatekeeper in a city office responsible for supporting charter schools when Bill Baccaglini walked enthusiastically through the door with one more idea.
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Mon Apr 18, 2011 3:34 PM EDT
A jury considered the fate of a hedge fund founder accused of making tens of millions of dollars through insider trading after a judge reminded them that they can rehear any of the dozens of taped conversations between the defendants and his friends.
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Fri Apr 1, 2011 9:23 PM EDT
A lawsuit is seeking damages from New York City on behalf of a third-grader handcuffed after a fight with a classmate.
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Tue Mar 29, 2011 7:02 PM EDT
A man who arranged for a 16-year-old girl to meet former NFL star Lawrence Taylor for sex in a hotel room pleaded guilty Tuesday, agreeing to serve more than seven years in prison.
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Wed Feb 2, 2011 2:47 PM EST
The government has identified the brother of one-time billionaire hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam as a co-conspirator in what authorities have called the biggest hedge fund insider trading case in history, a person familiar with the probe said Wednesday.
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Tue Jan 25, 2011 3:21 AM EST
The first Guantanamo (gwahn-TAHN'-uh-moh) detainee to have a U.S. civilian trial is returning to a New York City courtroom to face sentencing.
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Fri Jan 14, 2011 2:15 PM EST
The CIA should investigate how its employees destroyed tapes of Sept. 11 detainee interrogations and explain how it will prevent such a thing from happening again, a federal judge told a government lawyer Friday.
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Wed Jan 5, 2011 12:50 PM EST
A federal judge demanded the government explain itself Wednesday for eavesdropping on phone calls between an insider trading defendant and his wife in a case that was celebrated for its use of wiretaps.
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Tue Jan 4, 2011 11:49 AM EST
A judge sentenced a man who hijacked a plane from New York to Cuba four decades ago to 15 years in prison Tuesday, citing the fear that must have spread among passengers and the flight crew when he put a knife to the throat of a flight attendant and a gun to her back and then entered the cockpit.
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Tue Dec 21, 2010 1:45 PM EST
Deutsche Bank admitted criminal wrongdoing and agreed to pay more than $550 million in connection with its participation in tax shelters that enabled the rich to temporarily avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. taxes, authorities announced Tuesday.
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Tue Dec 21, 2010 12:27 PM EST
Bernard Madoff's former secretary surrendered Tuesday in Florida after a judge revoked her $5 million bail, saying her access to large amounts of money created "a very real potential" she could flee.
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Fri Dec 17, 2010 3:07 PM EST
A nonpartisan legal think tank plans to study U.S. treatment of terrorism detainees, partly out of concern that the country's policies lack clarity and can be manipulated to permit abuse or torture in dangerous times, members of a task force appointed to conduct the study said Friday.
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