NYPD Loses Appeal to Keep Disciplinary Records Under Lock & Key
Transparency advocates are lauding the outcome of the Second Circuit fight.
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Case Dropped After Woman in Racist NYC Run-In Gets Therapy
Amy Cooper, the white woman arrested last year for calling 911 on a Black birdwatcher in New York’s Central Park, had her criminal case thrown out Tuesday after completing a diversionary counseling program that prosecutors said was meant to educate her on the harm of her actions.
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NYC Transit Authority Accused of Using Covid to Boot Homeless From Subways
Homeless advocacy groups sued the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Friday, seeking to block Covid-19 rules that they say effectively ban the homeless from sheltering in New York City subway trains and stations.
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NYC Advances ‘Renewable Rikers’ Energy Plans
Ordering a review of the potential for renewable energy creation and storage on Rikers Island, the New York City Council moved toward planning what will happen after the massive jail shuts down.
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Massive Bias Damages for NYC Teachers Affirmed by 2nd Circuit
Upholding the first set of awards to Black and Latino teachers who were given a racially biased literacy test, the Second Circuit found that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in calculating individual damages.
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Ex-Epstein Partner Maligns Prosecution in Overnight Flurry of Filings
In a bid to chip away at her six-count criminal indictment, Ghislaine Maxwell lambasted the government’s case on grounds of vagueness and double jeopardy.
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Bus Dramatically Plunges Off Bridge; Driver, Passengers Hurt
An articulated bus dramatically plunged off a bridge in New York City late Thursday, leaving its front half hanging over a highway ramp, its fall broken only by the road below.
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Scale of Long-Awaited Bias Damages for NYC Teachers Poses a New Hurdle
A quarter century ago, thousands of Black and Latino teachers brought a discrimination case against New York City. The Second Circuit probed Thursday whether an algorithm should guide how damages are doled out.
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New York State Sues New York City in Renouncement of Protest Brutality
New York’s attorney general brought a federal complaint Thursday over the NYPD’s brutal response to civil rights protests following the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
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Trump to Lose Lucrative NYC Contracts in Latest Rebuke of Capitol Riots
Mayor de Blasio says the president’s incitement of a riot is exactly the kind of criminal activity that allows New York City to terminate contracts with the Trump Organization.
Read moreContempt Trial
A federal judge in New York “reluctantly” granted Steven Donziger’s request to postpone his contempt trial, set for Jan. 19, to May 10. Donziger helped indiginous Ecuadoreans win a $9.8 billion verdict against Chevron for polluting the Amazon rainforest.
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Woman Who Accused Black Teen of Stealing Phone Is Arrested
A woman who falsely accused a Black teenager of stealing her phone and then tackled him at a New York City hotel was arrested in her home state of California.
Read moreHomeless Shelters
An appeals court in New York stayed the forced relocation of nearly 200 homeless men from the Lucerne Hotel on the Upper West Side to a Radisson in Lower Manhattan. The Lucerne has been an emergency shelter since the summer to allow the men to socially distance during the pandemic.
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Judge Quietly Extends Pretrial Jail Stint for Ghislaine Maxwell
Finding that Ghislaine Maxwell poses the same flight risk as when she was arrested, a federal judge refused Monday to let the British socialite out of jail before her trial on charges of assisting Jeffrey Epstein recruit girls and young women for sex.
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NYC Puts Middle Schools on Lottery System, a Major Desegregation Move
Suspending the merit-based screening system that for years has guided admissions to New York City’s most selective middle schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio framed the move as a long-needed step toward desegregation.
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Epstein Associate Seeks $28.5 Million Bail Package
In a newly unsealed letter, Ghislaine Maxwell has proposed a $28.5 million bail package in a renewed bid to be released from the Brooklyn jail where she has been detained for the last five months awaiting trial on criminal sex trafficking counts.
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Relief and Hope as NYC Nursing Official Is First Vaccinated in Covid Fight
A nursing director in Long Island on Monday became the first American to receive a vaccination for Covid-19.
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Driver Arrested After Car Plows Into Manhattan Protesters
A woman who plowed her car into protesters Friday in New York City, injuring six of them, has been arrested and charged with reckless endangerment, police said.
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NYC Closed to Indoor Dining as Hospitals Teem With Virus-Stricken
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Friday that there will be no more indoor dining in New York City starting Monday due to an uptick in Covid-19 cases.
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