- Feb 28, 2020
BLH Client and Previous Stop-and-Frisk Plaintiff Settles with City After Recent Stop-and-Frisk
David Ourlicht, a lead plaintiff, and BLH client, in the Stop-and-Frisk trial, sued the City again in 2018 after he was again stopped and frisked. In March 2018, Ourlicht, who had since become a Legal Aid staff attorney, was with a friend in Crown Heights when they were stopped by two cops who accused them of smoking marijuana. Both men were frisked, though nothing was found. “It is inexcusable that David Ourlicht, one of the original plaintiffs in the groundbreaking stop-and
- Feb 20, 2020
BLH Pushes for Identities of Rikers' Island Corrections Officers on Behalf of Madeline Feliciano
BLH attorneys Jonathan Moore and David Rankin are pushing for five Rikers Island corrections officers to be identified after security footage captured them watching 19-year-old Nicholas Feliciano attempt to commit suicide for seven minutes without attempting to help. “These officers should be arrested,” Moore told the New York Daily News. “They are back at work getting paid while our client’s family is forced to visit him as he lies in a hospital bed. This is unacceptable.” S
