New York S182/A710
Creates private right of action under state constitution and eliminates QI for all government employees.
New York
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The Center for Constitutional Rights offers paid, part-time, remote and hybrid semester-long internship or externship opportunities to law students. Contact Leah Todd at volunteer@ccrjustice.org to learn more.
Each term, an internship opportunity is posted at https://ccrjustice.org/home/get-involved/jobs/internship-legal-intern. Our spring internship deadline has passed, but we will begin our fall recruitment process in late spring/early summer 2024.
Internship at Solo Practitioner Civil Rights Firm
I am a solo practitioner focusing mostly on prison abuse (inmate on inmate and officer on inmate), wrongful death in prison, false arrest, malicious prosecution, excessive force, wrongful conviction and I have other civil rights cases as well.
Lopez v. Ramos
Plaintiff was in Yonkers City Court observing arraignment of his brother’s killer when he got into dispute with court officer, who claimed plaintiff was being too loud. Court officer arrested plaintiff for criminal contempt of court and used excessive force during arrest. Plaintiff was acquitted at trial. Plaintiff had pre-existing shoulder injury and the force caused exacerbation of pain/injury.
Jones v. NYC
Client was an African American female detained for approximately twenty hours. The allegation was she was selling marijuana. No marijuana was found on her person. The judge threw the charges out at the arraignment. She worked for NYC and was drug tested subsequent to this and lost about a week of work. The client wanted to proceed with the settlement to be done with everything. She did not seek any medical (psychological or otherwise) attention and lost about $375 in wages.
Dancy/Elting v. Williams/McGinley
Plaintiffs, two African-American teenaged boys, were stopped by City of Poughkeepsie police because one (Dancy) supposedly matched the description of a suspected robber. When the other, Elting, tried to call his mother on his cell phone, he was taken to ground by defendant McGinley and beaten by McGinley and other officers while restrained. Elting was arrested for OGA and later the police claimed he possessed crack cocaine. Meanwhile, another officer, Williams, slammed Dancy’s head against side of patrol car, resulting in hairline jaw fracture.
Arion Anthony v City of NY
Plaintiffs were unlawfully stopped by Defendant Sgt. James Lee and Officer Sangwoo Lee. Defendants falsely stated that Plaintiffs' headlamps were not operative, but it was broad daylight. Defendants arrested Plaintiff Arion Anthony alleging that he possessed a gravity knife, but it was a common folding knife.
Plaintiff Arion Anthony received $26,500 for 12 hours in custody pre-arraignment. Plaintiff Karry Calderon received $1,000 for 1 hour roadside detention.
Estate of Ramarley Graham et al v. City of New York
NYPD officer chased 18 yr. old down to his apartment, shot and killed him in front of grandmother and little brother. Survived by parents, grandmother, younger brother.
Ballinger v. City of New York
28 y. o. man walking downstairs in a Brooklyn housing project, when an officer patrolling down below fired his gun; shot ricocheted, killing him. Survived by fiancée and daughter. Officer convicted of involuntary manslaughter.