NEW YORK, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- The sickest workers claiming ailments caused by the cleanup of the World Trade Center will be the first to have their cases heard in court, a U.S. judge says.

NEW YORK, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Manhattan Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein has ordered 60 of the estimated 10,500 Ground Zero illness lawsuits to be ready for trial by 2010.

NEW YORK, July 25 (UPI) -- A U.S. judge in New York has thrown out a $28.5 million settlement divvied up among four families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A federal judge in New York said Thursday that he might question CIA agents about the destruction of two videotapes of harsh interrogations of detainees.

NEW YORK, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- New York is not entirely immune from lawsuits from rescue workers made sick at the World Trade Center wreckage in 2001, a U.S. judge has ruled.

NEW YORK, July 27 (UPI) -- American Airlines has reportedly reached a settlement with the families of 32 people killed on Sept. 11, 2001, at the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

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NEW YORK, May 17 (UPI) -- Once-svelte undercover FBI agent Joaquin Garcia gained 80 pounds while infiltrating the New York mob, a change noticed by the judge hearing the charges.

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