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Judge Sends City of Fort Lauderdale to Trial Over Alleged Police Misconduct in Protest Shooting

A U.S. District Judge in Miami issued an order allowing the case involving Latoya Ratlieff, who was shot in the face with a rubber bullet by a Fort…
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New York Law Journal

Anti-Zionism Getting the Poor Treatment It Deserves in Campus Anti-Semitism Cases

Courts are beginning to render decisions in the wave of cases filed following universities' widespread failure to protect Jewish students from discrimination after the October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks in Israel, and the early verdict is encouraging.
14 minute read

New York Law Journal

Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: Armen Merjian

Mr. Merjian is one of the nation's leading civil rights lawyers, and likely the preeminent lawyer in the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with New…
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Would-Be Gaffer Found to Lack Standing in Bias Case Challenging Diversity Initiative

Chief U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain of the Southern District of New York reasoned that the plaintiff was not seeking work in the film production field, making his grievance too abstract.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Legal Profession Decries Uptick in Hate Crimes; Call for Additional Reinforcements

New York reported 1,089 reported instances in 2023, the highest number since data collection and annual reporting were mandated by New York's Hates Crimes Act of 2000, according to a recent report.
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National Law Journal

'Racial Animus'?: 4th Circuit Revives Bias Lawsuit Against Ollie's Bargain Outlet

"Taking [Alexis] Guerrero's factual allegations together and accepting them as true, we find that he has sufficiently alleged that Ollie's intended to discriminate against him on the basis of race and that the discrimination interfered with a contractual interest," Judge DeAndrea Gist Benjamin wrote, reviving the plaintiff's lawsuit.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Federal Judge OKs Student's Title VI Discrimination Retaliation Claim Against University of Pennsylvania

"We are pleased that the court agreed that the claims in this case should move forward. We are looking forward to pursuing these claims further in discovery to so we can address UPenn's discriminatory actions, which have negatively impacted the education and future of a bright student," said the plaintiff's attorneys, Kristen Mohr and Andrew T. Miltenberg of Nesenoff & Miltenberg.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Decision of the Day: Legally Blind Plaintiff Has Standing to Sue Alabama-Based Company in New York for Lack of Website Accessibility

This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decisions editors. 
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Daily Report Online

Judges Dismiss Suit Alleging Tennessee's Political Maps Discriminate Against Communities of Color

The complaint was the first court challenge over a 2022 congressional redistricting map that carved up Democratic-leaning Nashville to help Republicans flip a seat in last year's elections, a move that critics claimed was done to dilute the power of Black voters and other communities of color in one of the state's few Democratic strongholds.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Story of 'United States v. Margaret Sanger'

Paul Shechman discusses the story of birth control activist Margaret Sanger and the effects her life's work has on the law today.
9 minute read

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