NEW YORK — (Mealey’s) The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 26 affirmed a $104.6 million methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) contamination verdict for New York City against Exxon Mobil Corp., finding in part that the state tort verdict... Read More
NEW YORK - (AP) The government authority that owned the World Trade Center has tentatively agreed to pay $47.5 million to settle lawsuits by 9,055 people exposed to toxic dust during the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. The Port Authority of New York and... Read More
NEW YORK - (AP) Where there's smoke, there are $2,000 fines in one New York City apartment building. A pact among neighbors on Manhattan's Upper East Side calls for one to stop puffing on cigars in his apartment or pay the others $2,000 per smoke... Read More
NEW YORK - (AP) She was teaching kindergarten at 80, but Lillie Leon wasn't ready to close the classroom door on her career. But school administrators made her job unworkable by assigning her to a room that forced her to shepherd her entire kindergarten... Read More
NEW YORK - (AP) A New Jersey mother is suing an anti-abortion organization that used her 6-year-old daughter's image on a massive billboard in New York City that some people denounced as racist and offensive. Tricia Fraser filed a lawsuit Tuesday... Read More
NEW YORK - (AP) The National Women's Law Center filed complaints against 12 school districts Wednesday alleging they failed to offer equal opportunities for female athletes. NWLC officials say they believe statistics from 2006 indicate the districts... Read More
NEW YORK - (AP) A federal jury has awarded a newspaper in the suburbs north of New York City $8 million in its lawsuit against the mayor of Yonkers, who the paper claims wrongly confiscated copies after it ran articles critical of him. Full version available... Read More
NEW YORK - (AP) Lawyers are proposing a new settlement for thousands of ground zero workers suing New York City over their exposure to toxic dust from the World Trade Center. Lawyers representing about 10,000 workers are going before a federal judge Thursday... Read More
NEW YORK - (AP) A Staten Island couple are suing New York City after learning that their dead son's brain was on display at a city morgue. Jesse Shipley was 17 when he died in a car crash in 2005. Full version available to lexis.com subscribers . Read More
NEW YORK - (AP) The daughter of an Indian diplomat who says she was wrongly arrested after someone else sent nasty emails to her high school teacher is suing New York City. Krittika Biswas was subsequently cleared of any wrongdoing. At a news conference... Read More
NEW YORK - (AP) Bicyclists who were arrested or ticketed in Critical Mass rides in New York say they have settled with the city for nearly $1 million. The 83 plaintiffs were among hundreds cited in the rides between 2004 and 2006. Full version available... Read More
NEW YORK – (AP) New York City has settled a class-action lawsuit over jail strip searches for $33 million. The suit was filed on behalf of people arrested on misdemeanor drug and weapons charges. They were strip-searched at Rikers Island and... Read More
NEW YORK - (AP) A celebrity jeweler says Courtney Love hasn't returned nearly $114,000 worth of borrowed baubles, and the gem dealer is suing to get them back. The rocker borrowed two white gold and diamond chains, a white gold, floral-design mesh... Read More
NEW YORK - (AP) Passengers are challenging a bus driver's contention that he was well-rested and alert the morning his tour bus crashed into a pole in New York, killing 15 people on board. In a lawsuit, Erold Jean Marie alleges driver Ophadell Williams... Read More
NEW YORK - (AP) Academy Award-nominated actress Rosie Perez is suing the producers of television's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," alleging she was injured during the filming of a 2009 episode in New York City. Perez says in the... Read More