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The Safety-Industrial Complex: When “Protecting Children” Becomes a Business Model

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The people writing the checks are working families who can’t afford lawyers, can’t afford days off for hearings, can’t afford to have their registrations suspended. A $250 ticket doesn’t touch someone with a financial cushion. But for a home health aide in the Bronx, a delivery driver in Rockland County, a single mother juggling two jobs? That’s groceries. That’s rent. That’s the difference between keeping your car legal and falling into the enforcement spiral.

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New York Authorizes Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) Law For Terminally Ill, Mentally Competent Adults

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Extensive Safeguards Are Built Into New York’s Law To Protect Vulnerable Adults From Abuses & Overreach By Potential Estate Beneficiaries New York joins twelve other states in allowing terminally ill adults with less than six months to live the option to legally end their suffering with the assistance of medical professionals. Working with the Legislature, […]

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Justice Sherri Eisenpress Resigns From The Bench Following Formal Charges Of Misconduct

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Eisenpress Agrees To Retire In April, Admitting No Wrongdoing, Despite Multiple Allegations Of Breaches Of Judicial Conduct Sherri L. Eisenpress, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Ninth Judicial District, Rockland County – who was charged with misconduct by the Commission on Judicial Conduct for failing to disclose personal relationships and other conflicts with numerous attorneys […]

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