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...
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Insights on Complex Legal Challenges
Strategic perspectives on civil rights, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, police misconduct, retaliation, and institutional accountability.
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...
Read More ›Working Undercover Under Strain
Of the 120 or so undercover officers in the Organized Crime Control Bureau, which runs most of the department’s undercover operations, there is widespread...
Read More ›Three Black Detectives Accuse Unit of Treating Blacks Like ‘Animals’
Top supervisors of an elite NYPD anti-gun unit allegedly handled white suspects with kid gloves while treating blacks like “animals” deserving of a bullet...
Read More ›Former Black Warehouseman Says Working at D’Arrigo Bros. Was No ‘Bowl of Fruit’
New York Civil Rights Attorney Eric Sanders, Esq., of The Sanders Firm, P.C., alleges in a federal lawsuit that D’Arrigo Bros. Co. of New...
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Are Employers Violating Civil Rights Laws by Requesting Your Facebook Password?
Executive Summary This article argues that employer demands for private social-media access—especially Facebook passwords, compelled logins, and equivalent coercive workarounds—have moved from a...
Read More ›NYPD Football Cops Going to Trial
Two female NYPD officers’ disciplined for tossing football with young boy while on their post are now heading to Trial. “This is yet another...
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