Author: Eric Sanders

Insights on Complex Legal Challenges

Strategic perspectives on civil rights, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, police misconduct, retaliation, and institutional accountability.

Call for Participants
BlogOct 30, 2025

The Sanders Firm, P.C. Investigates Decades of Unlawful NYPD Drug-Testing Practices Involving Psychemedics Corporation

PUBLIC NOTICE AND CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS   New York, NY — October 30, 2025 — New York Civil-rights attorney Eric Sanders of The Sanders Firm, P.C....

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Hair Testing Litigation Center
BlogOct 25, 2025

Hair Testing Litigation Center

Breaking the Silence: Exposing an Unlawful Testing Regime For more than three decades, public agencies and private employers have relied on hair drug testing...

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EIA Test
BlogOct 25, 2025

How to Challenge an Employment Decision Based on Unapproved Hair Drug Testing (RIAH, EIA, or Similar)

I. Introduction: What’s at Stake For nearly three decades, hair drug testing has quietly operated as a shadow policy tool across public and private...

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EIA Test
BlogOct 25, 2025

When Science Becomes Policy Without Oversight — and People Pay the Price

I. Introduction: The Power of Silence Public policy is not made only in hearings, courtrooms, or legislative chambers. It is also made in the...

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How FDA Inaction Enabled Decades of Unlawful Hair Testing
BlogOct 25, 2025

How FDA Inaction Enabled Decades of Unlawful Hair Testing

For more than three decades, both public agencies and private employers have relied on hair drug tests the federal government never actually authorized. These...

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Citizen Petition
BlogOct 25, 2025

What an FDA Citizen Petition Really Means — and Why Job Applicants and Employees Should Care

For years, both public agencies and private companies have quietly relied on drug testing methods the federal government never actually authorized. These unapproved practices...

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Medical Device Clearance - Scientific Validity
BlogOct 24, 2025

Former NYPD Officer Files Citizen Petition Urging FDA Crackdown on Unlawful Hair Testing

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Petition challenges decades-long misuse of Psychemedics Corporation’s unvalidated drug testing on law enforcement officers and applicants, exposing regulatory gaps, racial disparities,...

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Undocumented and Excluded
BlogOct 12, 2025

The Price of Exclusion: How the Affordable Care Act Left Undocumented Communities Behind

I. Introduction — Exclusion by Design The promise of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was not simply to make health insurance more...

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Governing Under the Guillotine
BlogOct 12, 2025

Governing Under the Guillotine: How Political Reversals Turn Government Management Decisions into Legal Targets

Executive Summary Government management decisions — budget allocations, procurement approvals, discretionary promotions, operational directives — are supposed to reflect lawful authority and institutional continuity....

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