Los Angeles to Pay Up To $30M in Curfew Lawsuit Settlement to Provide Job...
The city of Los Angeles will pay as much as $30 million to assist thousands of individuals who have been subjected to unlawful curfews written into gang injunctions years after they were struck down as...
View ArticleLos Angeles to Pay Over $24M to Men Imprisoned for Decades on Wrongful...
The Los Angeles City Council has agreed to pay more than $24 million to settle lawsuits from two men who alleged that dishonest investigative tactics by LAPD detectives led to their wrongful murder...
View Article$22M Verdict for Man Beaten and Locked in Closet by East Cleveland Detective
On Tuesday, May 31 2016, a Cuyahoga County, Ohio jury returned a verdict in the amount of $22 million for Arnold Black, who in 2012 was severely beaten by detective Randy Hicks. Hicks had erroneously...
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Collaborative Reform Initiative: An Assessment of the San Francisco Police...
Author: U.S. Department of JusticePublisher: Community Oriented Policing ServicesOn Wednesday, October 12th 2016, the Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services released a...
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Ziglar v. Abbasi, et al.
"...whether Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), provides a cause of action for Respondents' claim that the punitive and abusive mistreatment...
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A Mutated Rule: Lack of Enforcement In the Face of Persistent Chokehold...
Author: NYC Civilian Complaint Review BoardPublisher: NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board"In July 2014, CCRB Board Chair Richard Emery, in the wake of the tragic death of Eric Garner and on behalf of...
View ArticlePolitical Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera's Sentence Commuted by Barack Obama
Before leaving office, President Barack Obama issued a record number of commutations and pardons, including granting the release of Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar López Rivera. Lopez Rivera,...
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County of Los Angeles v. Mendez, et al.
"The central purpose of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is to “give a remedy to parties deprived of constitutional rights, privileges and immunities by an Official’s abuse of his position.” Monroe v. Pape, 365 U.S....
View Article$1M Settlement for Family of Teenager Told to Drink Liquid Meth by Federal...
In March 2017, a San Diego federal court approved a settlement of $1 million for the family of a Tijuana teenager who died in federal custody at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in 2013 after being...
View ArticleSettlement of $950K for California Prisoner Subjected to Severe Pepper...
In April 2017, the California Department of Corrections agreed to stop an ongoing trial and provide $950,000 in settlement to an ex-prisoner who in 2012 was pepper sprayed during a cell extraction and...
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