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The petitioner had requested variances from several different zoning requirements, including the regulations for lot area, lot frontage, front yard setbacks, rear yard setbacks, and minimum and total side yard setbacks, which it needed so that it could build a single faming home. The board of zoning appeals (BZA) denied its request for area variances, however, and the Second Department confirmed the BZA’s denial on appeal. As the court explained, there was sufficient evidence to support the BZA’s determination that there would be an undesirable impact on the character of the neighborhood…
WASHINGTON: A search by US law enforcement of President Joe Biden’s Delaware beach house turned up no classified documents, the president’s lawyer said on Wednesday.
“No documents with classified markings were found,” attorney Bob Bauer said in a statement after the latest search of the president’s possessions for improperly stored documents.
Agents did however take “for further review of some materials and handwritten notes that appeared to relate to his time as vice president.”
Biden’s personal attorney, Bob Bauer, said in a statement that the search was planned and conducted with the president’s “full support and cooperation.”
The search by…
The US attorney in charge of the Hunter Biden investigation broke his silence Friday following explosive whistleblower allegations that his probe was “influenced by politics” and that he was “hamstrung” when making prosecutorial decisions, while denying Congress the records it requested for its oversight efforts .
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan last month requested US Attorney for the District of Delaware David Weiss turned over materials related to those allegations.
Weiss responded in a letter Friday evening, saying he is “not at liberty to provide the materials you seek.”
HOUSE GOP DEMAND TRANSCRIBED INTERVIEWS FROM HUNTER BIDEN PROSECUTOR, DOJ,…
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A federal judge on Friday found Kellye SoRelle — an attorney for the Oath Keepers and girlfriend of the the right-wing group’s leader, Stewart Rhodes — mentally incompetent to stand trial as scheduled next month on charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
US District Judge Amit P. Mehta of DC postponed SoRelle’s trial indefinitely, finding — based on reports by defense and government medical experts — that she was suffering from a mental disease or defect rendering her unable to understand the proceedings against her or to assist properly in…
SAVANNAH, Ga. — An attorney for two men whose beatings by guards were recorded by security cameras at a county jail in Georgia called Wednesday for the US Justice Department to investigate what he called a systemic pattern of sheriff’s officers abusing detainees.
“They are beating people indiscriminately inside this jail,” civil rights attorney Harry Daniels told reporters at a news conference outside the Camden County Sheriff’s Office, about 95 miles (152 kilometers) south of Savannah.
Daniels represents Jarrett Hobbs, a 41-year-old Black man booked into the Camden County jail for a traffic violation and drug possession charges on Sept.…
Through his arrest, at age 19, for a murder in South LA, through the trial where he received a sentence of 72 years to life, and through fruitless appeals, Abel Soto maintained his innocence.
In 2020, after he had been in prison for more than a dozen years, his family and friends set out to hire a lawyer who would prove once and for all that he was wrongfully convicted.
They went with Aaron Spolin — a Soto decision and his supporters would come to deeply regret it. Rather than thoroughly investigating his case to turn up exonerating evidence, Spolin…
An attorney for former President Donald Trump who worked to overturn his loss in the battleground Wisconsin has been reappointed by the state Supreme Court’s four conservative justices to a second term on a committee that advises judges on judicial conduct.
Jim Troupis’ reappointment to the panel was approved Thursday on a 4-3 vote by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, with all three liberal justices dissenting, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
FILE: Trump campaign attorney Jim Troupis speaks during a Senate hearing to discuss election security and the 2020 election process on Dec. 16, 2020, on Capitol Hill.
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