Carolyn Thompson

November 10, 2021 | Daily Business Review

Starbucks points to its generous benefits, including paid parental leave, a 401(k) program and free college tuition through Arizona State University. Late last month, it announced pay increases, saying all its U.S. workers will earn at least $15, and up to $23, per hour by next summer.

By Dee-Ann Durbin and Carolyn Thompson

6 minute read

July 10, 2017 | New York Law Journal

After three defendants fatally overdosed in a single week last year, it became clear that Buffalo's ordinary drug treatment court was no match for the heroin and painkiller crisis. Now the city is experimenting with the nation's first opioid crisis intervention court, which can get users into treatment within hours of their arrest, requires them to check in with a judge every day for a month, and puts them on strict curfews. Administering justice takes a back seat to the overarching goal of simply keeping defendants alive.

By Carolyn Thompson

5 minute read

November 20, 2015 | New York Law Journal

The school district in the heavily immigrant city of Utica discriminates against older students with limited English skills by refusing to let them attend the only high school, instead steering them into "dead-end" programs that offer no chance for a diploma, the state attorney general's office said Wednesday in announcing a federal civil rights lawsuit.

By Carolyn Thompson

4 minute read

November 19, 2015 | New York Law Journal

The school district in the heavily immigrant city of Utica discriminates against older students with limited English skills by refusing to let them attend the only high school, instead steering them into "dead-end" programs that offer no chance for a diploma, the state attorney general's office said Wednesday in announcing a federal civil rights lawsuit.

By Carolyn Thompson

4 minute read

May 18, 2015 | New York Law Journal

The suit calls the education funding system unconstitutional because it allots less state aid per pupil for charter school students than for students in traditional public schools, claims the state says are contradicted by charter schools' own assertions that their students outperform those in district schools.

By Joel Stashenko and Carolyn Thompson

4 minute read

May 16, 2015 | New York Law Journal

The suit calls the education funding system unconstitutional because it allots less state aid per pupil for charter school students than for students in traditional public schools, claims the state says are contradicted by charter schools' own assertions that their students outperform those in district schools.

By Joel Stashenko and Carolyn Thompson

4 minute read

September 24, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A grand jury has decided against charging NASCAR star Tony Stewart in the August death of another driver at a sprint car race in upstate New York.

By Jenna Fryer and Carolyn Thompson

1 minute read

July 31, 2014 | Daily Report Online

Law school graduates sweated their way through the second and final day of their bar exams Wednesday, some relieved to see paper and pencil after running into a technical glitch that kept test takers in several states from uploading the first day's answers from their computers.

By Carolyn Thompson

4 minute read

December 30, 2008 | Daily Report Online

BUFFALO, N.Y. AP - An Iraq-born Canadian citizen who was picked up at the U.S. border last week was charged Monday with conspiring to spy for Saddam Hussein and Iraq.A criminal complaint filed by the Justice Department alleges that Mouyad Mahmoud Darwish, 47, was paid to provide information to Iraqi government officials and intelligence officers in 2000 and later, including that Iraqi volunteers were being trained by the U.

By CAROLYN THOMPSON

3 minute read

January 13, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Paul Ceglia was sanctioned $5,000 and also was ordered to pay Facebook's court costs in trying to obtain discovery material, which Facebook said would help expose Mr. Ceglia's case as a fraud.

By Carolyn Thompson

3 minute read