A rally protested New York Police Department surveillance tactics in 2013. Credit Seth Wenig/Associated Press A federal judge has rejected the settlement of a lawsuit stemming from the New York Police Department ’s surveillance of Muslims, saying the proposed deal does not provide enough oversight of an agency that he said had shown a “systemic inclination” to ignore rules protecting free …
NFL player Nate Allen filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Fort Myers on Thursday, nearly two years after his wrongful arrest. Allen, a defensive back with the Oakland Raiders and Cape Coral High graduate, was arrested by the Fort Myers Police Department in February 2015. He was held for five hours after a victim wrongly …
Time is up for Justin Bieber to come to Miami by order of the court or face some new legal troubles in the Sunshine State. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jerald Bagley issued an order on September 28th which ordered Justin Bieber to return to Miami within the next 30 days to give a deposition in a lawsuit filed by a photographer who accuses …
A former New Boston police officer has filed a lawsuit against the town of New Boston saying she was sexually harassed and illegally terminated. In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court, Alexandra Drake, of Nashua, accused her superiors of making inappropriate comments and making her fear for her job before she said they eventually ruined her reputation. Drake accused …
A California city will pay $100,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging police harassment during a raid on a marijuana dispensary. The city of Santa Ana will also drop misdemeanor charges against a dozen people accused of unlawfully operating Sky High Holistic, the Orange County Register reported Wednesday (http://bit.ly/2eLDNmS ). Attorney Matthew Pappas said the money will go to two Sky High …
The family of a man shot and killed by Austin Police officers last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against three police officers and Chief Art Acevedo. 25-year-old Richard Munroe called 9-1-1 on July 5, 2015 saying he was distraught. Munroe would not give his address, but the 9-1-1 operator stayed on the line with him until Officers John Nelson, Stephen Johnson and Matt Murphy arrived.
Image 1 of / 6 FILE– Vigil attendees Thursday night wove flowers into a barbed wire fence where Jessica Williams, 29, crashed an allegedly stolen car into a utility truck before she was shot by a San Francisco police sergeant. Williams was shot on May 19, 2016. less FILE– Vigil attendees Thursday night wove flowers into a barbed wire fence where Jessica Williams, 29, crashed an allegedly …
The state’s child protection agency and Easter Seals failed to protect two young girls from “horrific” sexual abuse by their biological parents despite repeated warning signs, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday. The civil lawsuit filed by the grandparents – also the adoptive parents of the girls – accuses the state’s Division for Children, Youth and Families and Easter Seals of disregarding …
The Philadelphia Police Department transferred the patrols of city highways to the Pennsylvania State Police in 2007 to help free up work flow. Jurisdiction was essentially shared until 2012 when a speed enforcement agreement was discontinued. Since then, speeding tickets on limited access highways such a Interstate 76, 676 and 95 should be issued solely by the Pennsylvania …
The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado said Thursday it has reached a settlement in a lawsuit against two Trinidad detectives accused of bad policing. The City of Trinidad agreed to pay $375,000 to two women who were wrongly arrested and prosecuted during a 2013 drug sting, the ACLU announced. The lawsuit, filed in January 2015 in federal district court in Denver, accused Trinidad …