Southern District Judge Shira Scheindlin (See Profile) yesterday denied the city’s request for summary judgment against nine individuals claiming unlawful stops, frisks and arrests by New York City Police in the city’s housing authority buildings. Issuing an ...
MANHATTAN (CN) – A federal judge cited Jay-Z, noted rapper and legal philosopher, in a footnote to her order approving a lawsuit challenging New York City’s practice of sending “vertical patrols” of police to search ...
A federal judge in Manhattan declared on Thursday that the rules against loitering in public housing complexes were unconstitutionally vague, and gave the police too much discretion about whom to arrest. The ruling by Judge ...
The civil rights complaint filed last week against the city’s Department of Education by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund creates an opportunity for long overdue changes in how students are admitted to New York’s best ...
Even more so today than when the Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan Law School’s race-conscious admissions policy nine years ago in Grutter v. Bollinger, there is broad consensus that a diverse college experience better ...
The Sweatt family’s brief in the pending Supreme Court case, Fisher v. University of Texas, which the justices will hear next Wednesday, makes much of Chief Justice Vinson’s reference to “the interplay of ideas and ...
“Today’s significant ruling blocking Pennsylvania’s ill-conceived and discriminatory photo identification law ensures that it will not be in place for this election. Here is what we know about Pennsylvania’s photo identification measure: it would have ...
