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Paper Without Truth: How the NYPD Manufactures Records to Evade Accountability
I. Introduction: The Illusion of Records The American legal system assigns outsized epistemic authority to documents. At trial, judges and juries are taught to see records as anchors against the vagaries of memory; in administrative practice,...
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When Litigation Becomes Retaliation: False Allegations Against Retired Lieutenant Quathisha Epps...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, NY – September 9, 2025 — Eric Sanders, Esq., of The Sanders Firm, P.C., condemns what he characterizes as a pattern of retaliatory pleading targeting Retired Lieutenant Quathisha Epps—first in Thomas G....
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The Psychological Hold: Administrative Convenience as Civil Rights Violation
Executive Summary In the machinery of civil-service hiring, few institutions wield as much unchecked discretion as the New York City Police Department’s Candidate Assessment Division. Ostensibly tasked with ensuring that only qualified,...
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Clearance Without Fairness: Why Judicial Endorsement Cannot Replace Scientific Validation
Executive Summary For over a century, American courts have grappled with the uneasy union of science and law. From the earliest days of handwriting analysis and blood typing to the more modern claims of bite-mark identification, arson...
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Public Legal Brief: The NYPD’s Spoils System — Illegal Practices, Junk...
I. Introduction: Defiance, Continuity, and Integrity I wasn’t intimidated as a cop, and I’m not intimidated as a lawyer. I wasn’t corruptible in uniform, and I’m not corruptible in a suit. Their closed-door meetings plotting against “Eric...
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Cleared to Go Home—But Held Anyway: Lawsuit Targets New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell
For Immediate Release Father and daughter say hospital imposed extra-legal ‘social hold’ despite ACS authorization to go home New York, N.Y. — September 1, 2025 — Eric Sanders, Esq., of The Sanders Firm, P.C. announced...
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