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#1 Wealthy County in New York Must Pay $112 Million Over Immigrant Rights Violations

Dec 5 2025 // New York’s Suffolk County, home to the ultra-wealthy Hamptons and the bucolic North Fork, must pay $112 million in damages to immigrants after a court ruled that their detention in local jails violated their...

#2 Another Fire Ignites at Ford Aluminum Supplier Novelis in New York

Nov 20 2025 // Another fire ignited on Thursday at Novelis’ aluminum plant in Oswego, New York, that supplies Ford’s lucrative F-150 truck line, about two months after a blaze halted much of the facility’s...

#3 New York Times Sues Perplexity AI for ‘Illegal’ Copying of Content

Dec 5 2025 // The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI on Friday, claiming that the artificial intelligence startup was copying, distributing and displaying millions of its articles without permission.The startup has...

#4 Federal Jury Awards $80 Million to Estate of NY Man Wrongfully Convicted of Murder

Nov 25 2025 // A federal jury awarded $80 million Wednesday to the estate of a Buffalo man whose conviction in a 1976 murder was overturned after he spent nearly a quarter century in prison.Darryl Boyd, one of the group of Black...

#5 Archdiocese of New York Pledges $300M to Mediate Clergy Sex Abuse Claims

Dec 9 2025 // The Archdiocese of New York announced it is establishing a $300 million fund that it intends to use to pay for a global settlement of most of the 1,300 lawsuits it still faces from victims of clergy sexual abuse.The...

#6 Amazon Wins Injunction Against New York Law on Labor Relations

Dec 1 2025 // A federal judge last Wednesday granted Amazon.com a preliminary injunction to block the New York State Public Employment Relations Board from enforcing a new state law that the online retailer considers an attempt to...

#7 Instacart Sues New York City Over Worker Pay, Tipping Laws

Dec 4 2025 // Instacart sued New York City on Tuesday, seeking to block enforcement of five laws affecting the grocery delivery company, including higher minimum pay for app-based workers and greater disclosures to customers about...

#8 New York City Firefighter Dies After Responding to a Five-Alarm Blaze

Nov 11 2025 // New York City firefighter died Saturday after suffering a medical episode while battling a five-alarm fire at a Brooklyn apartment building, authorities said.Patrick D. Brady, 42, went into cardiac arrest while working on...

#9 New York Workers’ Comp Board to Require Video for All Testifying in Virtual Hearings

Dec 9 2025 // Beginning February 2, 2026, all claimants and lay witnesses testifying in virtual hearings before the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board will be required to appear and testify by video with their faces fully...

#10 Reuters EXCLUSIVE: Shell Challenges NY Arbitration Loss on Venture Global LNG

Nov 12 2025 // Shell has challenged its defeat in an arbitration case against U.S. liquefied natural gas producer Venture Global in the New York Supreme Court, a legal filing seen by Reuters shows, weeks after rival BP won a similar $1...

#11 New York Now Requires Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure

Dec 1 2025 // New York Attorney General Letitia James recently issued a consumer alert encouraging New Yorkers to report companies not disclosing their use of algorithmic pricing, as a new state law requires.Algorithmic pricing allows...