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A federal judge temporarily blocked the state of New York on Tuesday from forcing medical workers to be vaccinated after a group of health care workers sued, saying their Constitutional rights were violated because the state’s mandate disallowed religious exemptions. Judge David Hurd in Utica issued the order after 17 health professionals, including doctors and nurses, claimed in a lawsuit…

A Maryland Eastern Shore judge who was about to be arrested at his home on federal charges of sexual exploitation of a child was found dead Friday, officials said.

Hundreds are gathered in front of the City Hall on Wednesday to protest vaccination mandate in New York City. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

A DOJ watchdog says threats to federal judges and prosecutors have skyrocketed even as the U.S. Marshals Service faces budget and staff shortfalls.

Paul Feinman, the first openly gay judge to serve on New York’s highest court, died recently after stepping down because of his health, state officials announced Wednesday. He was 61. No cause of death was given. He had retired from the court March 23 to attend to unspecified health concerns. Feinman was appointed in 2017 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to…

NBC 7’s Jacke Crea had a chat with two retired Black judges who had to fight through racism and discrimination on their way to becoming trailblazers in their profession.

New Yorkers lined the sidewalks and cars jammed the streets near a Brooklyn coronavirus vaccine site after false rumors spread of extra doses available to the general public. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

A Montana judge blocked three land-use plans that would have opened most U.S.-owned lands in the state to energy development

The U.S. Postal Service must live up to its responsibilities to timely process election mail by treating it as a priority, a New York judge ordered on Monday, adding that the agency’s workers should be permitted to make extra deliveries and work overtime near the November presidential election.

The US Postal Service isn’t delivering mail as quickly as it used to, but the situation – with only two months until Election Day – doesn’t appear to be as dire as the picture painted by some members of Congress. NBCLX, in partnership with the NBC Owned Television Stations in a dozen cities across the country, is testing the speed...

With scores of disciplinary records already online, a federal judge on Friday said she is lifting a temporary restraining order that had barred New York City’s police watchdog agency, police department and other entities from making such information public. Judge Katherine Polk Failla’s ruling, a blow to public safety unions seeking a way around a new state transparency law,...

President Donald Trump’s effort to fight a prosecutor’s subpoena for his tax records was rejected Thursday by a federal judge, handing another loss to the president in a high-profile case that already made its way to the Supreme Court.

“Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Dina Manzo’s ex-husband and an alleged member of an organized crime family were charged by federal prosecutors Tuesday with conspiring to assault Manzo’s then-boyfriend in an incident in 2015. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey said Thomas Manzo and John Perna faces multiple charges over the assault on her now-husband, David Cantin...

A federal judge has ordered the release of children held with their parents in U.S. immigration jails and denounced the Trump administration’s prolonged detention of families during the coronavirus pandemic

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced new measures to hold NYPD accountable and for more transparency. Tracie Strahan reports.

A Georgia judge has scheduled a court hearing next week for three men charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery

A judge who suggested that a woman seeking a restraining order could “close your legs” to prevent a sexual assault was removed from the bench and permanently barred from presiding over a courtroom

A federal judge has ruled that Ken Cuccinelli was unlawfully appointed to lead the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency and therefore lacks authority to give asylum seekers less time to prepare for initial screening interviews

A New York judge has struck down a law that would have created a state commission tasked with investigating prosecutorial misconduct. Justice David Weinstein declared the law unconstitutional in a decision issued Tuesday, marking a win for a prosecutors’ association that sued over the statute. The law would have set up an 11-member commission to probe misconduct claims against New…

The panel’s recommendation echoes what the court decided last summer, which would be to remove the judge who asked if the woman could “close you legs” during the attack