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NYPD Loses Appeal to Keep Disciplinary Records Under Lock & Key

February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 JOSH RUSSELL
discipline, NYC, NYPD, privacy, Second Circuit

Transparency advocates are lauding the outcome of the Second Circuit fight.

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Civil Rights Criminal Regional 

Case Dropped After Woman in Racist NYC Run-In Gets Therapy

February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
birds, dogs, NYC, parks, race

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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Civil Rights Government Regional 

NYC Transit Authority Accused of Using Covid to Boot Homeless From Subways

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021 JOSH RUSSELL
coronavirus, discrimination, homeless, MTA, NYC, transportation

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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Energy Government 

NYC Advances ‘Renewable Rikers’ Energy Plans

February 11, 2021February 12, 2021 NINA PULLANO
NYC, prisons, renewable energy

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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Appeals Civil Rights Education Employment 

Massive Bias Damages for NYC Teachers Affirmed by 2nd Circuit

January 28, 2021January 29, 2021 NINA PULLANO
discrimination, NYC, Second Circuit, teachers, testing

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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Criminal Entertainment 

Ex-Epstein Partner Maligns Prosecution in Overnight Flurry of Filings

January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 JOSH RUSSELL
grand jury, NYC, sex trafficking

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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Latest Headlines Regional 

Bus Dramatically Plunges Off Bridge; Driver, Passengers Hurt

January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
crash, highways, NYC, transportation

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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Appeals Civil Rights Education Employment 

Scale of Long-Awaited Bias Damages for NYC Teachers Poses a New Hurdle

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 NINA PULLANO
damages, discrimination, NYC, Second Circuit, teachers

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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Civil Rights Government Regional 

New York State Sues New York City in Renouncement of Protest Brutality

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 JOSH RUSSELL
Excessive Force, New York, NYC, NYPD, protests, race

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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Business Government Politics 

Trump to Lose Lucrative NYC Contracts in Latest Rebuke of Capitol Riots

January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 JOSH RUSSELL
contract, golf, NYC, Trump Organization

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.

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Criminal Law Trials 

Contempt Trial

January 11, 2021January 12, 2021 BRIEF
Attorneys, Chevron, contempt, Ecuador, Fraud, NYC, oil

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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Civil Rights Criminal 

Woman Who Accused Black Teen of Stealing Phone Is Arrested

January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
arrests, California, cellphones, NYC, race

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.

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Appeals Business Health 

Homeless Shelters

January 5, 2021January 6, 2021 BRIEF
coronavirus, homeless, hotels, NYC

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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Criminal Entertainment 

Judge Quietly Extends Pretrial Jail Stint for Ghislaine Maxwell

December 28, 2020December 28, 2020 JOSH RUSSELL
Bail bonds, NYC, sex trafficking, wealth

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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Civil Rights Health Law 

Measles

December 23, 2020December 24, 2020 BRIEF
children, diseases, First Amendment, NYC, vaccines

A New York City resolution requiring measles immunizations for anyone over the age of six months who was living, working or attending school or a child care center was lawful and does not violate petitioners’ freedom of religion, an appeals court in New York ruled.

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Civil Rights Education Government 

NYC Puts Middle Schools on Lottery System, a Major Desegregation Move

December 18, 2020December 18, 2020 EMILEE LARKIN
NYC, race, schools, segregation, testing

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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Criminal National 

Epstein Associate Seeks $28.5 Million Bail Package

December 15, 2020December 15, 2020 JOSH RUSSELL
Bail bonds, NYC, sex trafficking

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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Health National Science 

Relief and Hope as NYC Nursing Official Is First Vaccinated in Covid Fight

December 14, 2020December 14, 2020 NICK RUMMELL
coronavirus, health care, NYC, vaccines

A nursing director in Long Island on Monday became the first American to receive a vaccination for Covid-19.

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Civil Rights Criminal 

Driver Arrested After Car Plows Into Manhattan Protesters

December 12, 2020December 14, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
automotive, crash, immigration detention, NYC, protests

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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Business Government Health 

NYC Closed to Indoor Dining as Hospitals Teem With Virus-Stricken

December 11, 2020December 11, 2020 EMILEE LARKIN
coronavirus, hospitals, NYC, regulation, Restaurants

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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