By ALM Staff | September 10, 2024
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The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Angela D. Giampolo | September 9, 2024
In courtrooms across America, the "gay/trans panic defense" has long undermined justice for LGBTQ+ individuals. This controversial strategy allows defendants to justify violence against LGBTQ+ people by claiming that the victim's sexual orientation or gender identity provoked their aggression.
By Tommaso Baronio | September 5, 2024
A U.S. District Judge in Miami issued an order allowing the case involving Latoya Ratlieff, who was shot in the face with a rubber bullet by a Fort…
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Rory Lancman | September 4, 2024
Courts are beginning to render decisions in the wave of cases filed following universities' widespread failure to protect Jewish students from discrimination after the October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks in Israel, and the early verdict is encouraging.
By NYLJ Staff | September 4, 2024
Mr. Merjian is one of the nation's leading civil rights lawyers, and likely the preeminent lawyer in the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with New…
By Ellen Bardash | August 30, 2024
Chief U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain of the Southern District of New York reasoned that the plaintiff was not seeking work in the film production field, making his grievance too abstract.
By Brian Lee | August 29, 2024
New York reported 1,089 reported instances in 2023, the highest number since data collection and annual reporting were mandated by New York's Hates Crimes Act of 2000, according to a recent report.
By Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman | August 27, 2024
"Taking [Alexis] Guerrero's factual allegations together and accepting them as true, we find that he has sufficiently alleged that Ollie's intended to discriminate against him on the basis of race and that the discrimination interfered with a contractual interest," Judge DeAndrea Gist Benjamin wrote, reviving the plaintiff's lawsuit.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Riley Brennan | August 26, 2024
"We are pleased that the court agreed that the claims in this case should move forward. We are looking forward to pursuing these claims further in discovery to so we can address UPenn's discriminatory actions, which have negatively impacted the education and future of a bright student," said the plaintiff's attorneys, Kristen Mohr and Andrew T. Miltenberg of Nesenoff & Miltenberg.
By ALM Staff | August 26, 2024
This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decisions editors.
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