A New York appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling striking down a state law that prohibits local governments from ...

The Honorable Judge Norma Jennings, New York State’s first Black and lesbian civil court judge, was sworn in on Jan. 30 in ...

New York can enforce its law banning voter dilution, suppression, intimidation, and obstruction, a Brooklyn appellate court ...

Harry Black, staff attorney with the State Democracy Research Initiative, reviews decisions from the the New York Court of ...

Under the last three judges, criminal outcomes have swung, too. Under Lippman (2009-15, appointed by then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer), the court averaged ... Association of New York State declined ...

A state appellate court on Thursday unanimously reinstated New York's John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of 2022, a law that prohibits "vote dilution" actions by municipalities. In a ruling penned by ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's lawyers on Wednesday formally notified a New York state court of Trump's intent to appeal his ...

A federal appeals court struck down a longtime federal ban that forbade the sale of handguns to teenagers in the U.S. The ruling Thursday by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals shot down a regulatory ...

President Donald Trump has appealed his New York hush money conviction, seeking to erase the verdict that made him the first ...

A top law firm is representing the president as he appeals his conviction in the one criminal case of his that went to trial ...

A New York appeals court has reversed a ruling from a judge that struck down a state voting rights law designed to protect the political voice of minority groups.