Can public school officials search a student’s bag while in school?
Yes, in the interest of ensuring a safe and secure academic environment, public school officials can conduct searches but only within certain legal limits....
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Can store security personnel be sued as ‘state actors?’
Yes. Store security personnel can be sued as ‘state actors’ “Section 1983”, more formally Title 42 § USC 1983 of the Civil Rights Act...
Read More ›Can private parties be sued as ‘state actors?’
Yes. Private parties can be sued as ‘state actors’ under Section 1983 Although state actors are generally governmental employees’ including the state and local...
Read More ›NYPD Cop Files Suit for $30M Alleging Sexual Harassment
New York Civil Rights Attorney Eric Sanders, Esq., of The Sanders Firm, P.C., alleges in a $30 Million Dollar state lawsuit that the NYPD...
Read More ›NYPD Reforms Interacting With the TGNC Community
The LGBT Pride Month is drawing to a close but New York City will continue its observance of lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender citizens’...
Read More ›The State of New York’s LGBT Community
For the fourth consecutive year, President Barack Obama has declared June the “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month”: the 30-day period for pondering...
Read More ›The Gay-Straight Alliance
The lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender (LGBT) community has come to be identified with “queer” people and with the HIV-affected. Thus the lengthened initialism,...
Read More ›Hempstead Pays $545k to Settle ‘Hangman’s Noose’ Case
New York Civil Rights Attorney Eric Sanders, Esq., of The Sanders Firm, P.C., announces that a settlement has been reached between the parties...
Read More ›Federal Judge Grants Class Action Status for NYPD Stop and Frisk Lawsuit
A federal judge on Wednesday granted class-action status to a lawsuit challenging the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk tactics, saying she was disturbed by...
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