The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division reversed a lower court's denial of in camera inspection of police internal affairs records in a wrongful death action.
Christine Cea and others brought a state court wrongful death action against the Suffolk County Police Department (SCPD).
On August 15, 2012, the Suffolk ...
A New York man was paid $120,000 to settle his claims that a police officer pushed him through a storefront window.
On May 6, 2012, Brett Fasulo, 31, hailed a taxicab in Queens, New York. Soon after entering the cab, Fasulo realized he did not have any cash and could ...
Following a $4.7 million settlement, a California federal court unsealed the dashcam footage of a police shooting, over law enforcement objections.
On June 2, 2013, Agustin DeJesus Reynoso's bicycle was stolen from a Gardena,
California CVS store. A security guard called 911 to report that two men had stolen a ...
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (DC) Circuit held that a lower court improperly granted prison officials summary judgment on a former guard's wrongful termination claims.
On the morning of June 4, 2006, the District of Columbia Jail (DCJ) was on lockdown because two prisoners ...
The Connecticut Supreme Court held that state agencies had standing to appeal a trial court's public record disclosure decision and the documents at issue were exempt from disclosure.
Amy Archer Gilligan was convicted of second degree murder for the arsenic poisoning of a resident of her nursing home. Her life ...
An Illinois jury awarded a Chicago man $319,464 for injuries he sustained when a Chicago police officer ran a red light, t-boning his vehicle.
On October 26, 2005, Melvin Conway, 43, was driving home from the Chicago, Illinois, furniture store he co-owned. As he traveled through an intersection, a police ...
A Minnesota federal court upheld an $80,000 jury verdict on illegal search and seizure claims. The court reduced Plaintiffs' requested attorney's fees by 50 percent, for a total fee award of $128,499.85.
Just before 1 a.m., on January 8, 2010, Champlin, Minnesota police responded to a veterinary hospital burglary. Police ...
On October 31, 2013, Oregon prison officials agreed to transfer a formerly male prisoner to a women’s prison to settle her lawsuit.
Linda Patricia Thompson suffers from Gender Identity Disorder (GID), or transsexualism, which is “a rare psychiatric disorder in which a person feels persistently uncomfortable about his or her ...
On December 9, 2013, an Oregon federal court held that a juvenile offender adequately alleged that he was injured when prison officials interfered with his right to appeal his convictions.
Oregon juvenile offenders are sentenced to Oregon Youth Authority (OYA) custody at the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility (MacLaren). They are ...
“I have a big ego,” admitted longtime Oregon parole board psychologist Frank P. Colistro, Ed.D. “I embellish my life.” Asked if this hurts his credibility, Colistro hesitated for a long, painful silence before answering “No.” His employers and many others disagree.
If his Curriculum Vitae (CV) is to be believed, ...
