Sentences with phrase «tossed by the federal court»
An effort by Citizens United to block the state from enforcing donor disclosure rules has been tossed by a federal court judge on Monday, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office announce.
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A federal judge handed indicted Albany politician Dean Skelos a pile of legal defeats Tuesday, tossing out his motion to dismiss two of his corruption charges and ruling that prosecutors can use all the evidence they scored by wiretapping his cellphone, new court papers state.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo deferred on Wednesday to prosecutors who have indicating they will continue to pursue a corruption conviction of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver when asked after his conviction was tossed by a federal appeals court.
When Silver's corruption conviction was tossed by a federal appeals court, there was one Albany veteran who knows exactly what the former Assembly speaker is going through: ex-Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.
Senate Republicans aren't complaining about Gov. Andrew Cuomo's creation of an health insurance exchange through an executive order, part of the federal mandate stipulated in the health care law that could ultimately be tossed out by the U.S. Supreme Court.
ALBANY, N.Y. — When Sheldon Silver's corruption conviction was tossed by a federal appeals court, there was one Albany veteran who knows exactly what the former Assembly speaker is going through: ex-Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.
Shapiro, of law firm Shapiro Arato, helped get hedge - fund manager Anthony Chiasson's insider - trading conviction tossed by a Manhattan federal appeals court in December 2014.
The campaign will be aided by a federal court ruling last week that said donors can contribute unlimited sums to Super PACs after tossing out New York's $ 150,000 limit on individual contributions.
A federal appeals court has tossed a suit filed by professional minor league baseball players who claimed the league illegally depressed wages in violation of antitrust law.