News: Civil Rights Litigation

$5 Million Settlement Awarded to Brothers Starved by Their Foster Parents

December 10, 2014

New York City and Officer Found Liable in Fatal ’05 Shooting of Leonel Disla

November 26, 2014

New York City and State Agree to Pay $6.7 Million in Settlements for Wrongful Conviction Cases

November 24, 2014

United States District Judge Denies Pine Bush Central School District’s Motion for Summary Judgment

November 4, 2014

In U.S. News & World Report, ECBAWM Partner Jonathan Abady and Client Harry Belafonte Argue for Constitutional Amendment Overturning Citizens United Decision

November 4, 2014

Emery Celli Files Lawsuit on Behalf of Rikers Inmate Who Died After Seven Days in Solitary Confinement Without Medical Care

September 10, 2014

City Agrees to $2.75 Million Settlement in Death of Rikers Island Inmate Ronald Spear

July 21, 2014

ECBAWM Defeats Challenge to City Law Banning Race-Based Stop-and-Frisks

June 18, 2014

ECBAWM Settles Race Discrimination Case Against Nassau County Landlord

June 12, 2014

ECBAWM Files Class Action Lawsuit Against New York For-Profit College

June 3, 2014

ECBAWM Files a Housing Discrimination Lawsuit in Federal Court Against the Village of Great Neck Plaza and the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency (NCIDA)

May 29, 2014

ECBAWM Files a Race Discrimination Lawsuit in Federal Court Against the Owner and Manager of Two Bronx Apartment Buildings

May 21, 2014

Duke University Lacrosse Players Settle with the City of Durham

May 16, 2014

ECBAWM files a federal lawsuit in Albany on behalf of a disabled woman raped by a fellow resident at a New York State group home

April 30, 2014

Andrew Wilson Publishes Article “Good Stop/Bad Stop (and Frisk),” American Bar Association, Section of Litigation, Civil Rights

April 14, 2014