May 23, 2017... If there are already far-reaching protections for police officers in all 50 states, why are states pursuing this legislation? The answer, of course, is politics. “If New York State wants to send...
Makes Strong Recommendations to U.S., Including Reparations Washington, D.C. & New York City, May 28, 2020 — Almost two decades after Algerian citizen Djamel Ameziane was detained and sent to...
Advocates for Descendants of Enslaved People are Trying to Prevent Construction of Massive Grain Terminal April 28, 2022, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana – Today, a district court judge...
June 1, 2022...The quarterly report, issued by Mylan L. Denerstein, an attorney with Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, is periodically required to assess whether the NYPD is practicing constitutional policing. Court...
July 1, 2022... One hundred and fifteen justices have served on the Supreme Court since its founding in 1789 . Not one has been a Black woman. Ilya Shapiro, a popular conservative legal scholar recently...
August 4, 2023...Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria refused to dismiss the torture suit against CACI Premier Technology , a military-industrial...
Join us on Tuesday , January 30, 2024 , from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. for a panel discussion investigating how movement lawyers and community advocates collaborated to address NYPD racial profiling in Floyd...
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January 11, 2024...Genocidal intent is “not out on the fringes,” Ngcukaitobi told the judges. It’s “embodied in state policy.” Outside observers agree. “These are not rhetorical statements,” Katie Gallagher, senior...
June 20, 2024...A judge on Friday ordered a retrial over allegations that a Virginia-based military contractor contributed to the abuse and torture of detainees at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison two decades...
Group That Led #Repeal50a Campaign to Enter Police Unions’ Lawsuit Aimed at Rolling Back 50-a Repeal and Re-Entrenching Police Secrecy August 25, 2020, New York – Today, a federal court ruled that...
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