Contact: Erin Gaffney 781-738-4221 egaffney@groupgordon.com Luna Droubi 212-277-5875 ldroubi@blhny.com New York, New York, November 26, 2024 – The NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) completed its investigation into the conduct of the police officers who in 2023 shot and grievously wounded Raul de la Cruz, a Bronx man, while he experienced a mental health crisis. The CCRB inquiry substantiated charges of excessive force and discrimination, the same claims which ar

New York, NY - Today, BLH joins Ben Crump Law and the People's Law Office in filing a historic lawsuit against the government on behalf of Malcolm X and his family alleging that various government agencies and individuals, including the FBI, CIA, and NYPD, played a role in the conspiracy leading to Malcolm X’s assassination and engaged in a decades-long cover-up that deprived his family of justice. The suit seeks accountability for the harm caused by the alleged unlawful and

On September 23, 2024, the Hon. Analisa Torres, a federal court judge in the NYPD stop-and-frisk cases, published an unprecedented and detailed report reviewing the NYPD’s disciplinary system . Judge Torres ordered that the Discipline Report be put together as part of the landmark federal monitorship overseeing reforms to the NYPD’s unconstitutional use of stop-and-frisk, trespass enforcement, and racial profiling during pedestrian encounters. The Discipline Report was writte

October 21, 2024 PHILADELPHIA, PA – The “Central Park Five” or “Exonerated Five” – the five individuals who were officially exonerated...

New York, NY – October 4, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a Statement of Interest in a lawsuit filed by New York...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, NY April 7, 2024 What: Nicholas Feliciano settles his cases against the City of New York for $28,750,000 Press Conference: 11:00 am, Monday, April 8, 2024, Foley Square, by the Fountain In attendance: Madeline Feliciano, family members, the Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, other elected officials, Ms. Feliciano’s attorneys, and supporters. CONTACT: David B. Rankin, 917-455-0609 drankin@blhny.com Jonathan C. Moore, 9

April Lacey was sent to the FMC Carswell Unit in Fort Worth due to medical reasons. While there she was repeatedly raped by FMC...

BLH has filed an amended Complaint in Hafez v. Accuracy in Media, Inc. et al. , adding two additional Plaintiffs in one of the first...

On November 15, 2023, a jury in the Northern District of New York returned a 9.25-million-dollar compensatory damage verdict against the...

BLH has filed one of the first lawsuits challenging the "doxxing" trucks, or mobile billboard trucks, which falsely identified a Columbia...