"There are ongoing, continuous, regular settlements for police misconduct," said Anne Houghtaling, an attorney and the senior deputy director of strategic initiatives at the Legal Defense Fund, which operates theNational Police Funding Databasethrough its Thurgood Marshall Institute. The database looks ...
City Faces 2 New Lawsuits Citing Police Misconduct Violations of Rights ClaimedByline: Jim Schoettler, Times-Union staff writerSchoettler, Jim
NEW YORK -- A woman arrested at a demonstration in SoHo is now suing the NYPD, claiming officers targeted her for protesting the police. It comes as the city is dishing out record settlements for police misconduct allegations. CBS News New York's Ali Bauman first covered the protest in ...
Jonathan Majors’s Ex-Girlfriend Sues the Actor for DefamationGrace Jabbari alleges a pattern of physical abuse and a campaign to discredit her. ByAndrea González-Ramírez powerMar. 18, 2024 Lawsuit Alleges Eric Adams Sexually Assaulted a ColleagueA former police aide claims the mayor asked he...
In a year when the city’s lawyers werehashing out the details of a federal consent decreethat will govern police reform efforts for years to come, Chicago taxpayers paid out more than $85 million to settle police misconduct lawsuits and an additional $28 million to outside lawyers to d...
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Wesley G. Ouchi, Civil Rights Attorney Focusing on Lawsuits Against Police Officers, Local Governments, and Insurance Companies Throughout California and Across the United States
California eventually paid more than $1.2 billion to settle sexual abuse lawsuits from the 2003 window. They were also forced to release thousands of confidential documents that showed church leaders, including Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony, had made plans to shield a...
determined that merely violating a site’s terms of use cannot create liability under the CFAA. This meant that Van Buren was not guilty of violating the CFAA even though he used the database for personal gain (which was against police policy) because he was an authorized user of the data...
A call for Emergency Medical Services concealed the face that lethal force had been used; The police report failed to indicate the use of force; Officers claimed that Greene was intoxicated before leaning that a toxicology exam found no alcohol or drugs in Greene’s system; ...