Police Misconduct Should Not Always Be a Taxpayer Expense
How General Municipal Law § 50-k Could Shift More of the Financial Consequences of NYPD Misconduct to Officers and Their Unions—and Give Police Training...
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Strategic perspectives on civil rights, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, police misconduct, retaliation, and institutional accountability.
What Does NYPD Enforcement Actually Buy New York?
A Cost-Benefit Audit of Low-Level Enforcement, Police Labor, Court Processing, Racial Disparities, and the Public-Safety Return on Enforcement Executive Summary New York...
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Forty-Two Years After Dunton, the Conflict Is Still There
Basile v. County of Nassau exposes a municipal-defense problem the Second Circuit identified in 1984—and that courts still too often address only after the...
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Another hit job failed
The Playbook Collapsed: The Courts and Disciplinary System Reject the Ravich–Scola Attack For nearly a year, Vladimir Ravich and his attorney, John A....
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Racial Bullying Is Not Just A School Discipline Problem
The Walker lawsuit was filed in Massachusetts, but the same institutional failures can happen in New York—and parents need to know how to respond...
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The Second Circuit Just Opened a New Door for Organizations
Defending Education v. Croton-Harmon removes a fifty-year barrier that prevented membership organizations from bringing § 1983 claims on behalf of their members For...
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When Judges Become the Jury
McClarin v. City of New York, the “Reasonable Jury” Problem, and the Judicial Factfinding That Quietly Reshapes Civil-Rights Cases I. The Problem Is...
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$780,000 More for Hair Testing: NYPD Keeps Paying for a Testing Regime the Federal Government Still Has Not Standardized
After decades of litigation, scientific challenges, a $2.6 million Boston settlement, and Boston’s own attempt to shift liability back to Psychemedics, NYPD is extending...
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The Quiet Misapplication of New York’s Human Rights Laws
Krimsky v. WestRock exposes a recurring problem that litigants cannot afford to ignore: courts may acknowledge that the NYSHRL and NYCHRL are broader than...
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