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“Panel overturns $2M wrongful arrest award for mom”

First, I saw this, in the New York Law Journal: Deeply Divided Panel Orders New Trial in False Arrest Case Ben Bedell, New York Law Journal December 17, 2014   A First Department panel vacated a Bronx jury’s $2 million … Continue reading

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Big $$ jury award is overturned by appellate panel

From the New York Law Journal: Panel Overturns $9M Jury Award in Subway Gap Suit Saying there was “no valid line of reasoning … which could possibly lead rational [persons] to the conclusion reached by the jury on the basis … Continue reading

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“Judge Scheindlin’s Case”

Judge Shira Scheindlin has filed an appeal of the Second Circuit decision that removed her from the group of civil rights cases against the NYPD’s stop and frisk policies. The editorial emphasizes that the City, which filed the appeal in … Continue reading

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