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NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Holtec International says the State of New York has usurped the exclusive power of the federal government to regulate discharges at nuclear power plants.

A judge has ruled East Hampton can use revenue generated by its municipal airport's operations to pay for legal fees in a battle over the facility's future.

"District Attorney Tierney is presenting this case," spokeswoman Tania Lopez said. 

"On the advent of Newsweeks 90th anniversary, its heartening to know that the litigation is now behind us," Newsweek CEO Dev Pragad said.

East Hampton officials vowed to appeal the judge's ruling.

The nominating process for a candidate to lead and oversee the state’s sprawling court system restarted on Friday after the chief clerk of the Court of Appeals declared a vacancy in a letter to the counsel of the Commission on Judicial Nomination.

Sitting beneath the motto of “IN GOD WE TRUST” in all capital letters in his Riverhead courtroom, Suffolk County state Supreme Court Justice Thomas F. Whelan was ready to go, he told the lawyers before him yesterday afternoon.

BY MICHAEL WRIGHT Attorneys for the charter aircraft booking company Blade and their co-plaintiffs in three lawsuits against East Hampton Town made a new request in state court on Thursday for a judge to halt the town’s plans to close East Hampton Ai

The UFO field perhaps understandably attracts its share of eccentrics, but few are quite as colorful and as strange as the man called John Ford. A retired bailiff and former chairman of the Long Island UFO Network, which he started in 1988, his 400-strong group was known for their various investigations into UFO sightings throughout

(Courthouse News photo/Adam Klasfeld) LONG ISLAND (CN) — Judges suing New York state for ageism pulled a win Friday, when a Suffolk County judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the state constitution’s rule saying judges who turn 70 years old can finish out the year and then must retire.  After age 70, judges can apply for a two-year recertification, and continue doing so until age 76. Typically, those requests are granted, provided the judge is fit to serve.  But in Septemb...