NEW YORK – Today, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the law firms, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP and Felicello Law P.C., sued New York State in Albany County for failing to meet its public defense obligations under the historic settlement reached in the Hurrell-Harring v.
NEW YORK CITY - In response to reporting today that NYPD Commissioner Sewell will weaken the department's disciplinary guidelines, New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Donna Lieberman issued the following statement:
The New York Civil Liberties Union and the law firm Clarick Gueron Reisbaum (CGR) filed a class-action lawsuit in Manhattan challenging the permanent exclusion of people with felony convictions from serving on juries.
SYRACUSE – The New York Civil Liberties Union moved to file an amicus brief in support of respondents challenging a lawsuit to halt the demolition of a crumbling portion of the I-81 viaduct in Syracuse, New York.
NEW YORK - Following the threat of a lawsuit from the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Office of Court Administration (OCA) announced that it will launch a
NEW YORK CITY – In response to Mayor Adams’s announcement that the NYPD and FDNY will begin detaining and forcibly hospitalizing people with perceived mental illness – even when they pose no imminent harm – the following statement is attributable to NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman: