With more than 75 years of combined experience, the professionals at Kennedy Law Firm strive every day to make communities in New Mexico safer by helping those who have suffered sexual abuse or police misconduct. This Sexual Abuse blog by Kennedy Law Firm offers information and commentary for ...
There have been over 1,000 complaints of New York City police misconduct in recent years regarding officers’ use of chokeholds, a city agency that is investigating the incidents said days after a man put into hold by police died in Staten Island. The Civilian Complaint Review Board has recei...
v. Commissioner of Sanitation of the City of New York decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court. The Gardner case involved a New York City police officer appearing before a grand jury investigating alleged criminal conduct among police officers. The testifying officer refused to sign a waiver of ...
Warren’s Weed New York Real Property (Pub. #00800, – Release 155) – Over two dozen chapters updated; featured cases include those dealing with standing under SEQRA; exemption from public review in condemnation; arbitration; damage caused by excavation; and setting aside denial of area varianc...
"Four constables have now been advised that they are being investigated for potential breaches of the police standards of professional behaviour at the level of gross misconduct," the IOPC said at the time. The watchdog also said it was looking into complaints tha...
“The following considerations are relevant to determining whether mediation or other activities that do not constitute the practice of law when performed by nonlawyers may, in the context of bar discipline cases, nevertheless constitute legal work when performed by a lawyer: (1) whether the type ...
Most of the misconduct involved Ceballos' mishandling of client funds. In numerous cases, he deposited the advanced fees received into his operating account instead of a client trust account as required. Another common transgression was failing to provide clients with an accounting of their funds whe...
could not be more stark. In the case of Eric Massa, for instance, within about a week of allegations of his misconduct coming forward into the public sphere, he resigned. Yet when you look at the scandals affecting the Republican Party, the response is very different. ...
two joint operations with the Independent Commission Against Corruption concerning suspected ramp and dump schemes involving the stocks of six Hong Kong-listed companies, other market misconduct and suspected corruption offences; and a joint operation with the Hong...
an unfortunate feature of American public discourse: you've got someone like Radley Balko who spends the bulk of his career documenting the most grave instances of police misconduct imaginable -- including cases that involve the incarceration