June 16th, 20230DEARBORN – Luther Gonzales Hall was coming from a friend’s house on his bike. He had a bit to drink and wanted to be sure he was heading the right way to get home when he was attacked by a police officer seemingly without provocation.
The suit he won not only alleges violations of constitutional rights, but false imprisonment,...
October 21st, 20220LANSING — State lawmakers have agreed to set aside $20 million to settle a lawsuit by thousands of people who were wrongly accused of fraud when seeking unemployment benefits.
The money was included in a larger bill recently signed into law by Democratic Governor Whitmer. It followed an agreement reached by the Attorney General’s...
September 7th, 20190ALEXANDRIA, VA – A judge in the Eastern District Court of Virginia has sided with 23 Muslim Americans who brought a class action case against federal officials and argued that the government’s Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB), or watchlist, violated their constitutional rights.
The ruling was published on Wednesday. Judge...
April 13th, 20180NEW YORK CITY — Last Thursday, a group of Muslim owned-businesses, mosques, individuals, and student groups reached a settlement with the New York Police Department (NYPD) in a federal lawsuit challenging the discriminatory surveillance of American Muslims in New Jersey.
Filed in 2012 in federal court in New Jersey, in Hassan v....
