U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit – Civil Rights – State Action – Private Emergency Medical Services   Grogan v. Blooming Grove Volunteer Ambulance Corps 13-656-cv Judges Cabranes, Hall and Chin   Background: The plaintiff appealed from the grant ...

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WASHINGTON — Moments after making fresh demands that Attorney General Eric Holder open federal investigations into police shootings of unarmed black men, a cluster of civil rights activists learned, courtesy of whispers and a shared e-tablet, that the nation’s first ...

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Ruth Scott and her husband Bill came to the city five years after the three-day Rochester riots ended, but many of the conditions that sparked the event 50 years ago remained and some argue, still persist today. African-American children continued ...

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The debate on suspending the writ of habeas corpus during wartime has been going on since President Abraham Lincoln first did it during the beginning of the Civil War. And it will continue, particularly as the United States is engaged ...

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NEW YORK — The New York Police Department deliberately violated the civil rights of tens of thousands of New Yorkers with its contentious stop-and-frisk policy, and an independent monitor is needed to oversee major changes, a federal judge ruled Monday ...

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ALBANY — New York’s top court says the state Division of Human Rights lacks jurisdiction to investigate students’ civil rights complaints against their school districts.   The Court of Appeals is reversing two midlevel courts in complaints against the Ithaca ...

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Federal disability discrimination law does not protect medical marijuana users who claimed their civil rights were violated by local municipalities that interfered with the lawful distribution of the drug, the 9th Circuit has ruled in affirming judgment.   Medical marijuana ...

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U.S. District Court, Western District of NY Civil Rights Retaliation — Race of Spouse — Costs and Damages Matusick v. Erie County Water Authority 07-CV-489 Judge Arcara Background: Pending before the court are several post-trial motions that the parties filed ...

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The battle over the fortune of the late Texas tycoon J. Howard Marshall, who married former Playboy playmate and model Anna Nicole Smith shortly before his death, is heading to the U.S. Supreme Court for the second time.

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Eastman Kodak Co. will have to pay more than $9 million to the attorneys who represented 3,000 people in an employee class-action discrimination suit. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jonathan W. Feldman granted a request ...

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A group of defense attorneys and civil rights organizations have filed suit challenging federal rules that allow laptops and other devices to be searched by border security officials. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court ...

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PHOENIX — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Dec. 8 in an appeal by business and civil rights groups that are trying to overturn a 2007 Arizona law that prohibits employers from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.

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