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Josefa Velasquez is a regulatory and Court of Appeals reporter for the New York Law Journal based in Albany, N.Y. Contact Josefa Velasquez at [email protected]. Twitter: @j__velasquez
January 24, 2018 | New York Law Journal
Acting Albany Supreme Court Justice Roger D. McDonough issued a decision Monday denying five of six objections raised by the New York Public Service Commission and the nuclear power plant owners who sought to dismiss a lawsuit by environmentalist and consumer groups over subsidies for aging nuclear plants in western New York.
By Josefa Velasquez
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January 23, 2018 | New York Law Journal
A coalition of labor unions and good government groups rallied at the state Capitol on Tuesday to generate support for early voting.
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January 22, 2018 | New York Law Journal
State Sen. Diane Savino, a Staten Island Democrat, sent a letter to each of New York's four U.S. attorneys asking them to allow New York's program to continue despite Attorney General Jeff Sessions' rollback earlier this month of the Obama-era Cole memo.
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January 22, 2018 | New York Law Journal
Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants the state comptroller to audit the judiciary as part of his budgetary proposal to certify that judges work eight hours a day.
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January 18, 2018 | New York Law Journal
State Sen. John DeFrancisco, R-Syracuse, told the New York Law Journal on Wednesday afternoon that negotiations on a bill that would extend the time misdiagnosed cancer patients have to sue doctors and hospitals for the error have not been progressing with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office.
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January 18, 2018 | New York Law Journal
PhRMA, the powerful Washington-based advocacy group that represents pharmaceutical companies, blasted a proposal by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to levy a 2-cents-per-milligram surtax on opioid prescription medication sold in the state to help fund measures against the drug epidemic.
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January 17, 2018 | New York Law Journal
The New York State Department of Tax and Finance issued a report Wednesday afternoon on possible ways to overhaul the state's tax structure. One of the proposals in the report would keep the state's current income tax and levy a payroll tax on employers based on each employee's tax withholdings.
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January 17, 2018 | New York Law Journal
Gov. Cuomo's proposal during his budget address Tuesday to tie additional funding for courts above the 2 percent cap to judges certifying that courts are open from 9 to 5 each day received a mixed reception from the state's judiciary.
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January 16, 2018 | New York Law Journal
Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants New York to fund a study of the possible impact of legalizing recreational marijuana in the state, the Democratic governor said at his annual budget address in Albany on Tuesday afternoon. He also introduced several other proposals including a possible surtax on pharmaceutical company sales of opioid medications, and a tax on companies that sell over the internet.
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January 11, 2018 | New York Law Journal
An investigation into an accusation that a state senator forcibly kissed a former staffer won't be conducted by the chamber because the matter does not fall under its jurisdiction, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said on Thursday.
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