A coalition of 16 state attorneys general is supporting a Fairfax County, Virginia school board that has been challenged in court for implementing a new high school admissions policy that aims to increase diversity of all kinds, including racial diversity. …
A former Bridgeport assistant police chief’s lawsuit claiming he was defrauded out of the police chief’s job can go forward, a state appeals court has ruled. James Nardozzi’s lawsuit stemmed from the hiring scandal that landed the city’s police chief …
New York City will pay $10.5 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a man who spent 24 years in prison on a murder conviction that was overturned after a witness who had placed him at the …
A federal jury’s $14 million award to Denver protesters hit with pepper balls and a bag filled with lead during 2020 demonstrations over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis could resonate nationwide as courts weigh more than two …
The city of Baltimore has reached a $3.5 million settlement with a group of business owners whose property was damaged in the 2015 unrest that followed the death of Freddie Gray, a Black man injured in police custody. In all, …
A cab driver who was wounded by an off-duty police officer in a 2011 road-rage shooting has settled his lawsuit against New York’s Nassau County for $2 million. Newsday reports that county legislative committees approved the payment to Thomas Moroughan …
Rochester’s ex-police chief La’Ron Singletary will receive $75,000 from the City of Rochester after he sued the city for wrongful termination last year, alleging former Mayor Lovely Warren fired him for refusing to lie during an investigation into the death …
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against a northern Kentucky police department after two officers fatally shot an armed man during a traffic stop. The family of Randall Lockaby, 57, of Manchester filed suit last week in federal court …
A former Brimfield, Mass. police officer has filed a lawsuit claiming the town’s board members discriminated against him when they chose not to reappoint him as the town’s only patrolman because of his sexual orientation. Ryan Olszta alleges the town …
ALLENTOWN, Pa. —The family of a New Jersey man shot and killed by a police officer near an eastern Pennsylvania amusement park in 2018 will reportedly receive part of a $950,000 settlement of a federal civil rights lawsuit against the …
