ALBANY — State Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the owners and operators of four nursing homes in Queens, the Bronx, White Plains County and in Buffalo accusing the homes of fraud that harmed, neglected and humiliated residents.

“Suffering was immense, and relentless … inhumane behavior,” James said Tuesday. She said the civil action was a warning to all nursing home operators “to get their house in order.”

James claims the company, Centers for Care LLC doing business as Centers for Health Care, misused more than $83 million in Medicaid funds through “multiple fraudulent schemes.” The

Behind the scenes, progress is being made in the homicide investigation of Stephen Smith, a Smith family attorney said this week.

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED), which took over the Smith’s cold case and began investigating the unsolved death in the summer of 2021, is now making “substantial” progress, attorney Eric Bland said.

SLED Chief Mark Keel has been keeping the Smith family updated, and the most recent SLED update was promising, Bland said.

“According to Chief Keel, they (SLED) have some individuals in mind who have some knowledge and responsibility, and they are issuing subpoenas and warrants,”

This post was authored by Amy Lavine, Esq,

A recent decision from the Suffolk County Supreme Court, Matter of Save Sag Harbor v Village of Sag Harbor, involving the village’s adoption of a local law that expanded the definition of an apartment building in order to allow more affordable housing. The village attorney had drafted a negative declaration pursuant to SEQRA, which was given to the village board members at the public hearing, but there was no discussion by the board members or public commenters about the law’s potential environmental impacts.

After closing the public hearing, the board simultaneously

HOUSTON (AP) — Attorneys for the man accused of killing five of his neighbors after storming into their Texas home suggested on Thursday that not all has been revealed about what led up to the deadly shooting and that the suspect was someone who was generous and well -liked.

Francisco Oropeza, 38, made his initial court appearance Thursday following his arrest May 2 after a four-day manhunt. He is facing five charges of murder for the April 28 shooting deaths in a rural neighborhood in Cleveland, located 45 miles (72 km) northeast of Houston. Authorities allege Oropeza, after being asked

An attorney for Tiger Woods filed court documents Monday that said Woods’ ex-girlfriend, Erica Herman, is not a victim of sexual assault or abuse but is instead a “jilted ex-girlfriend” who wants to publicly litigate “special” claims in public court.

The attorney, JB Murray, filed the documents in response to two lawsuits Herman has filed against the famed golfer and the trust he established for his mansion on the Treasure Coast of Florida.

Herman sued the trust after her breakup with Woods in October, claiming more than $30 million in damages and stating she had an oral tenancy agreement with

Donald Trump has faced an incredible number of lawsuits in his life. In 2016 USA Today found that Trump and his businesses were involved in at least 3,500 legal actions in federal and state courts over the three decades before that.

Some of those legal troubles are, notably, going on as we speak, while he’s running for president. Trump was recently indicted by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, he’s currently under trial for rape, and he’s facing two more federal investigations that could very well announce an indictment any day now. All in all, Forbes found that there are at

The Hexavalent Chromium Spill That Never Happened: Without Disasters, Where Does Environmental Litigation Come From?

Kathleen Ross

On July 29, 2022, Tribar Manufacturing, an auto supply manufacturer, improperly released 10,000 gallons of toxicant-containing discharge into the sewer system of Wixom, Michigan.^[1] The release overwhelmed the Wixom wastewater treatment plant and entered Norton Creek, a tributary of the Huron River, before being discovered.^[2] Early reporting suggested that thousands of gallons of the toxic chemical compound hexavalent chromium had made its way into the Huron River, prompting panic and anger in downstream communities.^[3]

A number of factors contributed to

This post was authored by Matthew Loescher, Esq.

Charlestown Township, a municipality in Chester County, enacted a zoning ordinance that permits outdoor, off-premises advertising signs in a particular district. A statewide regulation concerning roadside billboards promulgated by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (“PennDOT”) had the practical effect of barring that use. The property owner Charlestown Outdoor, LLC appealed the decision of the township zoning board, which denied the property owner’s challenge to the validity of the township’s zoning ordinance that permitted the construction of billboards in the zoning district. The Court of Common Pleas, Chester County, affirmed the zoning board’s