The city of Chicago will pay more than $3.4 million to resolve a fatal police shooting lawsuit that sparked a review of how the city’s Law Department handles litigation involving allegations of serious officer misconduct, while paying $3 million for another fatal police shooting captured on video that began when a 17-year-old ran from a traffic stop carrying what turned out to be a black iPhone …
Staten Island Republicans convinced a state Apellate Division court to uphold an an injunction against Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to dump the personal files of applicants to the city’s municipal identification program, files believed to include the personal information of thousands of undocumented immigrants—prompting the administration to announce it would no longer hold on to any personal records of IDNYC participants at all. Earlier this week, Assemblyman Ron Castorina …
More than three months after losing track of an unaccompanied minor and sending him to an airport in an entirely different city than his intended destination , JetBlue is arguing that an international treaty prohibits the mother from bringing a lawsuit against the airline. Back in mid-August, the youngster was supposed to fly from the Dominican Republic to JFK International Airport in New York …
One of the plaintiffs involved in a lawsuit against the City of Maplewood is finally speaking out. The man, who wished to remain anonymous, said he was arrested for not paying several tickets and for not showing up to his court date. “I stayed two days and my bond was lowered to $200, and I’ve just been threatened with this, or threatened with that. Pay, pay, pay,” he said. Other plaintiffs have claimed the same thing happened to them. ArchCity Defenders, a non-profit legal group that is leading the lawsuit, said …
An attorney for Homeless Angels said she plans to file a motion asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the group by the owner of a south Lansing hotel where the nonprofit once housed Lansing-area homeless families and individuals. Attorney Denise LaFave Smith, who represents the nonprofit, said it has limited financial resources and no intention of …
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, …
Police in a Twin Cities suburb are going to court over the city’s body camera policy for officers. The unions representing 38 officers and eight sergeants in Maplewood say parts of the policy should have been developed through collective bargaining instead of being imposed by the city. The law approved last spring by the state Legislature requires police departments …
A federal judge has made public his intent to throw out a Topeka man’s lawsuit seeking $32 million against defendants that include Topeka’s city government. U.S. District Senior Judge Sam Crow issued a ruling Wednesday saying Joseph C. Wakefield failed to state a valid legal claim in the suit, which contended he was entitled to compensation because Topeka police failed to adequately investigate …
A federal judge Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit brought by a former New York City public high school teacher who claimed she was fired for teaching a unit about five men wrongly convicted in the 1989 gang rape of a Central Park jogger. U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl ruled that Jeena Lee-Walker’s speech, as a public employee, was not protected by the First Amendment when she taught lessons about …
Ninety-two protesters arrested during demonstrations sparked by the police shooting death of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, earlier this year are set to get a hefty payout from state and local authorities, who they accused of using excessive force and violating their civil rights, the Christian Science Monitor has reported. The Baton Rouge Metro Council moved on Nov. 23 to settle a …