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Lawsuits, News May 21, 2019

Civil Rights Suit Filed Over Stephon Clark Arrests in Sacramento

On March 19, 2019 Civil rights attorney Mark Merin outlines about the upcoming legal battle for the 84 people who were arrested at a recent Stephon Clark protest in East Sacramento. Attorneys for the marchers confronted by police during Stephon Clark demonstrations in East Sacramento are suing the city of Sacramento, Sacramento County and its police and sheriff’s departments in federal court alleging civil rights violations in the mass crackdown that netted 84 people in the March protest. The 34-page suit filed Thursday in Sacramento federal court by attorneys Mark Merin and Paul Masuhara alleges a lengthy list of claims, including assault, false arrest, false imprisonment, unreasonable search and retaliation in the March 4 demonstrations that ended with riot gear-clad police and deputies herding the protesters onto the 51st Street overpass.

Lawsuits May 10, 2017

Miss. Sheriff’s Department Illegally Targeted Black Population for Decades

Betty Tucker had invited a few guests over for a cookout in the garden of her Canton, Miss., home when two plainclothes sheriff’s deputies walked into her home. Even though they didn’t have a warrant, they came in, checked her pockets and the pockets of her guests, searched her patio on their hands and knees, and then left. It wasn’t much different for Quinetta Manning.

Lawsuits Mar 29, 2017

Port Authority Cops Target Men Who ‘seem Gay’: Lawsuit

Port Authority cops target men who seem gay or androgynous and arrest them on false charges of public masturbation and exposure at the city’s bus terminal, a new class-action lawsuit claims. The cops have been falsely arresting men for years to increase “quality of life” arrest statistics, says the suit, which was filed in federal court in Manhattan on Monday. Cops spy on men who seems “gay or …

Lawsuits Mar 24, 2017

Sterling Protest Lawsuit Alleges Long History of Racial Tension Between Community, Law Enforcement

A federal lawsuit has been filed against the city of Baton Rouge on behalf of at least seven Baton Rouge residents. The lawsuit filed by attorneys from the Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center in New Orleans claims that arrests during protests were part of a pattern of “racist law enforcement” in the city. The factual grounds for the lawsuit go back to incidents that occurred in the …

News Feb 9, 2017

Woman Sues Washington County After Facebook Comment Lands Her in Jail

A Washington County woman claims that her ex-husband, a deputy sheriff, got her jailed for a critical Facebook post. In a lawsuit filed last month in U.S. District Court, Anne King claims that she asked Deputy Corey King in January 2015 to pick up medicine for their sick child. Her ex-husband refused, she said, claiming he was too busy.

Lawsuits Feb 3, 2017

Deputy Made Woman Help Handcuffed Boyfriend Urinate on Wall

A Williamson County sheriff’s deputy forced a woman to help her handcuffed boyfriend urinate on the side of a building after he was arrested last year, according to a federal lawsuit. Dennis Farmer, a 51-year-old disabled veteran, and Linda Schlueter filed the suit Wednesday against Deputy Damon Grant and Williamson County. Sheriff Robert Chody and county spokeswoman Connie Watson said Thursday …

Class-Actions Jan 25, 2017

The DC Police Chief Behind the Inauguration Crackdown Has a Disgraceful History

According to a class-action lawsuit, more than 200 people hit with “felony riot” charges following their mass arrest at Friday’s inauguration protest in Washington, D.C. were indiscriminately swept up “without warning and without any dispersal order” and attacked with chemical weapons, flash-bang grenades and batons. The crackdown, which was overseen by acting Metropolitan Police Department …

News Dec 14, 2016

Lawsuit Alleges Police Chief, Wife Engaged in ‘Pattern of Racketeering’

A federal civil lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges the police chief, his deputy prosecutor wife and several police officers are guilty of engaging in a “pattern of racketeering” and conspiring with others at the Honolulu Police Department. The allegations are unprecedented for HPD, and are part of a growing scandal involving Police Chief Louis Kealoha and his wife, deputy Prosecutor Katherine …

Settlements Nov 28, 2016

Deray McKesson Protesters Settle Federal Suit Stemming From Alton Sterling Demonstrations

Black Lives Matter protestors who were arrested last summer while demonstrating after Alton Sterling was shot and killed by police in Baton Rouge, La., will receive financial compensation from local and state authorities for $100,000. The 92 protestors, including DeRay Mckesson , accused them of excessive force and violating their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and assembly, …