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A judge is demanding the medical staff at Brooklyn’s troubled Metropolitan Detention Center explain in person why they didn’t give an inmate all his medication after an emergency appendectomy, then apparently lied about it to the man’s lawyers. Brooklyn Federal Court Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall called for a hearing after she grilled a Bureau of Prisons attorney during a status conference last ...

At law firms and in business, many NYU Law alumni carry on the Law School’s tradition of public service through their commitment to pro bono. What drives them to take on this demanding work on top of other significant professional responsibilities? Here’s what some of them told us. Amelia Starr ’93 Chief Pro Bono Counsel at Davis Polk & Wardwell

Notorious Mayor Bill de Blasio donor Jona Rechnitz’s five-month prison sentence for his role in a sprawling bribery scheme aimed at the highest levels of New York City government has been tossed by a federal appeals court. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with Rechnitz — who played star witness in several high-stakes political corruption cases — that the sentencing judge shouldn’t ...

Ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio donor Jona Rechnitz was granted his bid to have his five-month jail sentence and $12 million restitution order overturned Wednesday.

The court is pushing to execute him because it says the evidence showing he is innocent should not be considered at all.