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President-elect Bill Clinton plans to name the first woman attorney general and is considering four candidates, a newspaper reported in today's editions. Quoting transition aides, the New York Times said that the candidates are federal appeals Judge Patricia M. Wald, 64, of the District of Columbia Circuit; U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Amalya L. Kearse, 55, of New York; Judge Judith S. Kaye, 54, of the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court; and attorney Brooksley E.

President-elect Bill Clinton plans to name the first woman attorney general and is considering four candidates, a newspaper reported in today's editions. Quoting transition aides, the New York Times said that the candidates are federal appeals Judge Patricia M. Wald, 64, of the District of Columbia Circuit; U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Amalya L. Kearse, 55, of New York; Judge Judith S. Kaye, 54, of the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court; and attorney Brooksley E.

Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Monday nominated state Court of Appeals Judge Judith S. Kaye to become New York's first woman chief judge. If confirmed, Kaye would lead the seven-member Court of Appeals, New York's top tribunal. The former chief judge, Sol Wachtler, resigned in November and has been charged with harassing an ex-girlfriend and threatened to kidnap her teen-age daughter. He pleaded not guilty last week, and his lawyer said he will mount an insanity defense.

They say all big decisions in this town get made by three men in a room: the governor, Assembly speaker and Senate majority leader. Perhaps that's why New York state's top judge -- fed up with lawmakers' stalled efforts to increase judicial salaries -- has decided to take aim at the trio and sue them. In a lawsuit filed Thursday in the state Supreme Court in Manhattan, Judith S.

Responding to complaints that too few women had been appointed to the Cabinet, President-elect Bill Clinton and his advisers are looking more closely at the posts of attorney general, U.N. ambassador, secretary of education and secretary of agriculture, transition aides said Sunday. But despite the 11th-hour effort, aides also said that former Gov. Richard W.

Public school students in New York City, the nation's largest school system, are not receiving a "sound basic education" as required by the state constitution, the Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. "Tens of thousands of students are placed in overcrowded classrooms taught by unqualified teachers and provided with inadequate facilities and equipment," the state's highest court said. "The number of students in these straits is large enough to represent a systematic failure."

New Zealand's America's Cup legal team fielded a barrage of sharp queries from New York's highest court Thursday, while rival San Diego slid smoothly through the final court session of a two-year battle for yachting's grand prize. The one-sided questions from the seven-judge state Court of Appeals left some observers predicting the panel would send the Cup winging back to San Diego.

President-elect Bill Clinton has chosen utility executive Hazel O'Leary to be his energy secretary and former South Carolina Gov. Richard W. Riley to head the Education Department, sources said Sunday. The selections will be announced at a noon PST press conference today and will bring Clinton closer to his goal of choosing his top 25 Administration officials before Christmas. More announcements are due Tuesday and Wednesday.

The withdrawal of New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo as a candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court has increased the chances that President Clinton will fill the post from a group of liberal-to-moderate jurists who likely would face little public opposition, sources said. The group includes federal judges Amalya L. Kearse, Richard Arnold, Stephanie Seymour and Patricia M. Wald and New York state appeals court Judge Judith S. Kaye, according to White House sources and knowledgeable Democrats.

New York Gov. David A. Paterson exercised poor judgment but committed no apparent crime when he entered the fray involving a woman who had accused one of his top aides of domestic violence, a retired judge appointed to investigate the governor's role in the case concluded Wednesday. In a 57-page report, the former chief judge of the state's Court of Appeals, Judith S. Kaye, said testimony from more than 30 witnesses suggested that the only person who might be liable to face charges related to the alleged abuse incident last fall is the aide, David Johnson, who has denied wrongdoing.

The gay-marriage movement suffered two major defeats on the state level Thursday, as Georgia's Supreme Court upheld an amendment banning the unions, and New York's highest court ruled that its state constitution did not grant same-sex couples the right to wed. Gay-marriage advocates found some solace that the New York ruling gave legislators the option of passing a state law allowing same-sex marriage.