Millions of dollars more are being added to the taxpayer bill in the landmark FDNY discrimination case, according to court documents. Brooklyn federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis approved a $9.5 million...
A federal judge has preliminarily approved New York City's agreement to pay $9.5 million in legal fees to the attorneys that represented black firefighters in a long-running discrimination case...
A second animal rights activist was sentenced Wednesday in a case dating back to 2014, in which two men were accused of releasing some 2,000 minks from a fur farm in Morris, Illinois. ... ... The...
With so many cases of animal abuse, animal abuse registries are a hot topic. However, Tennessee is the only state in the country with a public registry. But now, New Jersey could follow suit if...
A federal appeals court in the District of Columbia circuit reinstated a case challenging the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) use of secretive and experimental prison units known as communications...
Scott Lively, the US pastor accused of ‘crimes against humanity’ while preaching homophobia in Uganda, is trying in a last-ditch effort to stop the lawsuit. The minister has repeatedly attempted to...
...Shane Kadidal, a senior managing attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights , said: “There are two baseline constitutional tenets that he manages to screw up in 140 characters.” Scalia was...
... Another lawsuit, filed by Muslim Advocates and the Center for Constitutional Rights , is currently in pretrial litigation. In October 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit...
...“Given the NYPD’s policing history,” says executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights Vince Warren, “one’s past criminal history can reflect bad policing as much as it reflects...
With the no-fly list’s processes already found unconstitutional, judges on the Second Circuit argued Wednesday over whether FBI agents who used it to pressure Muslims into becoming informants should...
