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Court Says Ballot Selfies Are Illegal In New York, At Least For This Election
Weeks after one federal appeals court ruled that New Hampshire’s ban on photos inside the voting booth is unconstitutional, a federal district court judge in New York state has come to a different...
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Should Your Job Be A Factor In How Much You Pay For Auto Insurance?
While many consumer advocates believe that drivers’ auto insurance rates should be based on factors that only relate directly to their activity on the road, many states allow insurers to use a wide...
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New York Bars Scalpers From Using Bots To Snap Up Tickets Before Everyone Else
Perhaps you’ve been here before: you’re waiting patiently, albeit a bit anxiously, for the moment when you can buy tickets to a concert or sporting event online. But despite your best efforts and quick...
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Should You Be Able To Serve Divorce Papers Through Facebook?
If you so choose, you can use the internet to avoid virtually all person-to-person contact; sign contracts electronically, transfer funds from account to account, transact business, order dinner and a...
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Restaurant Made Hundreds Of Customers Sick On Thanksgiving Day
Hundreds of Thanksgiving diners at a restaurant in western New York apparently got a little something special with their holiday meal that made them all sick when they should have been enjoying the...
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Senator: Regulators Should Investigate E-Cigarette Explosions, Issue Recalls
Despite their popularity, e-cigarettes are a “ticking time bomb” that should be more closely investigated by federal regulators and recalled if necessary, according to New York Senator Chuck Schumer....
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Tanning Salon Barred From Claiming Indoor Tanning Is Safer Than Sitting In...
Because there’s no guarantee that willfully exposing your skin to the sun won’t increase the risk of cancer, whether you’re basking in the rays of a UV lamp or sunning on the beach, a New York tanning...
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Is A Restriction On Credit Card Surcharges A Free Speech Violation?
When you think of First Amendment disputes, your mind probably conjures images of protestors, or investigative journalism, or maybe you think of the never-ending debate over where to draw the line...
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DeVry Will Pay $2.75M To Settle State’s Allegations Of Misleading Advertising
One month after DeVry Education Group agreed to pay $100 million to settle federal regulatory charges that it used deceptive ads to recruit students, the for-profit educator has come to a...
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State: Time Warner Cable Defrauded Customers By Advertising Internet Speeds...
Back in 2015, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman launched a statewide effort to measure residents’ broadband speeds to see if they were getting the “blazing fast” internet access that the...
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NY AG: Please Send Us Your Broadband Speed Tests So We Can Investigate Providers
Some things, you can measure centrally. Some, you can survey with a sample group. But sometimes, what you really need is a giant crowdsourced effort — and that’s what New York Attorney General Eric...
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Restaurant Where 260 Diners Got Ill On Thanksgiving Has Closed Its Doors
Last Thanksgiving, hundreds of people who ate at one western New York restaurant fell ill thanks to what local health officials later determined was gravy containing the bacteria Clostridium...
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This Pharmacy Ad Suggests “Very, Very Strong Antibiotics” Even When They...
When you’re sick, it makes sense that you want a pill to just make all the symptoms go away, which is probably why some doctors continue to prescribe antibiotics even when they aren’t necessary and...
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Domino’s Must Pay $480,000 In Restitution To Underpaid Employees
Last May, the Attorney General in New York State filed suit against Domino’s franchisees for underpaying their workers, and the state also included Domino’s corporate in the suit. This was...
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Supreme Court: State’s Restriction On Credit Card Surcharges Is A Free Speech...
The U.S. Supreme Court has determined that a New York state law barring merchants from adding credit card surcharges is indeed a state regulation on businesses’ free expression. However, whether that...
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New York To Offer Free Tuition At Four-Year Public Universities
Hundreds of thousands of New York residents mulling the idea of going to college at a public university could soon enroll for free, as the state’s lawmakers passed a budget over the weekend that...
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Senators Urge FDA To Ban Possible Carcinogen Found In Shampoo, Lotion
You might not be familiar with “1,4-Dioxane” but it’s a chemical component commonly used in everyday products, such as shampoos, lotions, and cosmetics. It may also cause cancer, which is why a pair of...
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Strip Club Claimed Dancers Were Therapists To Skirt $3.1M In State Taxes
It’s not uncommon for companies to try to finesse their way out of a hefty tax bill, but one Manhattan strip club tried a unique excuse when attempting to skirt $3.1 million in state taxes: Its dancers...
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Apple Fights Bill That Could Make Fixing iPhone Easier, Cheaper
When iPhones first came on the market, customers could only get their devices fixed at an actual Apple store. Now that the phones have become ubiquitous, phone repair store have popped up on nearly...
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Bank Of America, Delta Pull Funding From “Julius Caesar” Production Seen As...
It’s been more than 2,000 years since Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of Roman senators, and more than 400 years since William Shakespeare immortalized the dirty deed. The Bard’s Julius...
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