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Judge Rejects New York’s Bid to Dissolve NRA But Allows Lawsuit to Proceed
Mar 4 2022 // A judge has rejected an effort by New York’s attorney general to put the National Rifle Association out of business, but will allow her lawsuit accusing top executives of illegally diverting tens of millions of...
Global Supply Pressures Eased in February, New York Fed Says
Mar 3 2022 // Global supply chain pressures eased in February as backlogs and delivery times improved in several key markets and a measure of ocean shipping costs declined, according to new data from the New York Federal Reserve...
Cartier Lawsuit Accuses Tiffany of Stealing Luxury Jewelry Trade Secrets
Mar 2 2022 // Cartier sued Tiffany & Co on Monday, accusing its luxury rival of stealing trade secrets concerning its high-end jewelry from an employee it lured away in December, in a sign competition in the fast-growing jewelry...
Man Exonerated in 1981 Rape Files $50M Suit Against New York
Feb 28 2022 // The man who served 16 years in prison for the 1981 rape of author Alice Sebold and was exonerated last year filed a lawsuit Friday against New York state for $50 million over his wrongful conviction. Anthony Broadwater,...
New York State Ethics Commission Hit by Cyber Attack
Feb 28 2022 // ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)— New York’s ethics commission has shut down its online filing system as authorities investigate a “deliberate malicious cyberattack.” The Joint Commission on Public Ethics said late...
Palin Wants New Trial With Different Judge in New York Times Defamation Lawsuit
Feb 25 2022 // A Manhattan judge said Wednesday that lawyers for Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are seeking a new trial on her defamation claims against The New York Times, along with his removal from the case. U.S. District Judge Jed S....
New York Governor Plans Center to Coordinate Public, Private Cybersecurity
Feb 25 2022 // New York wants to improve its cybersecurity defenses and will open a joint operations center in the coming months to coordinate between government agencies, critical businesses and utilities, Gov. Kathy Hochul said. Hochul...
Pandemic Brought Surge in Illegal Street Racing Across U.S.
Feb 24 2022 // Jaye Sanford, a 52-year-old mother of two, was driving home in suburban Atlanta on Nov. 21 when a man in a Dodge Challenger muscle car who was allegedly street racing crashed into her head-on, killing her. She is one of...
COVID Underscores Lack of Whistleblower Protections
Feb 22 2022 // Originally posted on Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Inside a partially completed Amazon warehouse here, workers last summer walked on conveyor belts four stories high without safety harnesses,...
Officials Quarantine New York Site After Bird Flu Detected
Feb 22 2022 // A highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a non-commercial backyard flock of birds on Long Island in New York, federal authorities confirmed Saturday. Samples from the flock were tested at the Cornell...
Business Moves
Feb 21 2022 // East Truist Insurance, Kensington Vanguard Charlotte, North Carolina-based Insurance broker Truist Insurance Holdings Inc. agreed to acquire the national title insurance agency Kensington Vanguard National Land Services....
People & Places
Feb 21 2022 // National Great American Insurance Group has promoted Jason M. Cohen to senior vice president and Julie F. Kadnar to divisional group president within its Property & Casualty Group. In 2006, Cohen joined the company as...
Judge Says Trumps Must Testify in New York Civil Probe
Feb 18 2022 // A New York judge ruled on Thursday that former U.S. President Donald Trump and two of his adult children must answer questions under oath within 21 days in the state attorney general’s civil probe into their family...
Jury Rejects Palin’s Libel Claim Against New York Times
Feb 15 2022 // A U.S. federal jury on Tuesday ruled against Sarah Palin in her lawsuit accusing the New York Times of defaming her in a 2017 editorial that incorrectly linked her to a mass shooting, after the presiding judge said he...
Insurance Broker Hengguang Among Chinese Firms Filing Small New York IPOs
Feb 15 2022 // At least six Chinese companies have lodged documents for New York listings in recent weeks, filings showed, promising an end to a months-long freeze after an unprecedented clampdown last year by Chinese...
Judge Throws Out Palin Defamation Suit But Still Wants Jury to Issue Verdict
Feb 14 2022 // A U.S. judge said on Monday he will throw out Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, after concluding that an editorial in the newspaper did not maliciously link the former Alaska governor and...
Jury Deliberates Over Palin Defamation Claim Against New York Times
Feb 14 2022 // Jurors began considering whether to hold the New York Times liable for defaming Sarah Palin, after her lawyer on Friday accused the newspaper of falsely associating her in a 2017 editorial with a mass murder, a link that a...
Takeaways from Our Conversation on More M&As, Cannabis ‘Frappucinos’ on Tap for 2022
Feb 14 2022 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv New Frontier Data, a producer of cannabis research and intelligence, released its “22 for 22 Report,” in January, which imparts a definitive air of optimism mixed with few...
Sarah Palin, New York Times Editor Take the Stand in Defamation Trial
Feb 10 2022 // Sarah Palin portrayed herself as a dedicated public servant in testimony in her defamation case against the New York Times, after a former editor who oversaw the 2017 editorial underlying her lawsuit on Wednesday denied...
Judge Dismisses Fired Amazon Worker’s Lawsuit Alleging Discrimination
Feb 9 2022 // A federal judge on Monday sided with Amazon.com Inc. in dismissing a discrimination lawsuit that workplace organizer Christian Smalls had filed against his former employer. U.S. District Judge Rachel Kovner rejected...
