Strategic perspectives on civil rights, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, police misconduct, retaliation, and institutional accountability.
The New York City Police Pension Fund Must Tighten Remote-Injury ADR Review Now—and the Legislature Must Permanently Reform the Causation Standard Executive Summary...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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