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- Category: Environmental Racism
- Category: Immigrant rights
- Category: Black Lives Matter
- Federal judge permits lawsuit of man killed by Kyle Rittenhouse to proceed against City, City officials & Rittenhouse
- Protesters of George Floyd’s Murder Discuss the Landmark $14M Verdict v. Denver Police
- Nine wrongly convicted New Yorkers sue the corrupt cops who framed them & the City that let it happen
- Parents of Cedric Lofton Demand Immediate Access to Video Showing Their Teenage Son’s Death in Custody
- Jon Burge Torture Survivor Sues Daley, Top Cops and Prosecutors
- State Police Killed Black Man After Traffic Stop for “Broken Taillight,” Suit Says
- Category: Covid-19
- Category: Crypto Currency
- Category: Supreme Court
- Category: financial fraud
- Category: Wrongful imprisonment
- County Prosecutors Criminally Charged in Burge Torture Cover-up
- DOJ investigation finds that Louisiana’s practice of prisoner overdetention violates 14th Amendment
- Class Action Suit Charges DCFS Imprisons Kids in Jails Despite Court Orders for Their Release
- $45M wrongful conviction verdict, highest in state history, awarded by Ohio jury to wrongfully incarcerated artist
- Man Allegedly Framed for Murder by Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Sues County, Cops
- Massachusetts Man Wins $8M Jury Verdict v. City for Police Frame-Up
- Kim Foxx Sued for Her Office Issuing Illegal Subpoenas
- Highest Wrongful Conviction Settlement
in Indiana History - Man Sues Worcester Cops Who Framed Him for Murder
- Exonerated Indiana Man Sues Police Officers and Prosecutor Who Framed Him
- Kimberly Long Sues Corona, CA Police Who Framed Her for Murder
- One of the Nation’s Longest Wrongfully Imprisoned People Sues Cops Who Allegedly Framed Him
- Ronald Watts’ Victim Sues for City’s Report
- Jon Burge torture survivor Keith Walker,
wrongly imprisoned three decades,
sues the Midnight Crew, City & top cops - FOIA Suit: FBI, DOJ, and State Must Provide Records on Innocent Iraqi Refugee Omar Ameen
- Man Sues Chicago Cops Who Framed Him for Murder at Age 17
- Framed for Murder at Age 16, Man Sues Police Who Set Him Up
- Cops Hit with Federal Lawsuit for Falsifying Evidence to Arrest Man for Murder
- Lawsuit: 39 Years of Police Cover-up Sent Man to Prison
- Wrongfully Convicted Woman Sues Corrupt Louisville Officers Who Framed Her for Murder
- Gross Police Misconduct Put Him Behind Bars for 36 Years.
- One of the Nation’s Longest Wrongfully Imprisoned Men Sues Cops Who Framed Him
- Falsely Accused of a Murder That Shook Up Small Town, Man Sues Those Who Framed Him
- 15-Year-Old Framed by Chicago Det. Reynaldo Guevara Sues City
- Nevada Attorney General Seeks to Needlessly Endanger Elderly, Mentally Ill Exoneree
- Lawsuit Seeks Access to DNA Evidence That May Identify the Innocent
- Two Black Men, Railroaded as Teenagers Into Wrongfully Serving Most of Their Adult Lives Behind Bars, Sue Chicago Police
- Nation’s Longest Wrongfully Imprisoned Man & Co-Plaintiffs Win $18M Settlement with Cleveland
- Suit Filed Against Bureaucratic Incompetence Preventing On-Time Release of Inmates Amidst Pandemic
- 19th Innocent Person Framed by Chicago Detective Reynaldo Guevara Sues City After 16 Years Behind Bars
- The Arc of My Education Into Wrongful Convictions
- 8 More Wrongfully Convicted People Sue Disgraced Former Police Sgt. Ronald Watts, His Team, & the City
- Chicago’s Police Corruption Continues to Haunt it as Det. Reynaldo Guevara Victim Sues for his 23 Years of Wrongful Imprisonment
- Jon Burge 2.0 Victim Sues City for 20 Year Wrongful Imprisonment from Age 15
- Man, Wrongly Imprisoned for 3 Decades, Sues Cops & Firemen Who Framed Him
- The Fallout Continues from Massachusetts’ Massive Forensic Drug Lab Scandals
- An Appreciation Post: To all the Wonderful Women who do it all
- Class Action Suit Hits DCFS for Imprisoning Children in Psychiatric Hospitals
- 15 Wrongfully Convicted Men Sue City & Crooked Cops Who Framed Them
- Jury awards $17 million to man framed by Chicago cops for 1988 murder
- Alamosa County Woman Wrongly Imprisoned a Decade, Sues Cop Who Framed Her for Murder
- Another Man Sues Former Chicago Cop Guevara & City After Being Wrongfully Imprisoned For Almost 20 Years
- Man Sues Worcester, MA Police After Spending 16 Years in Prison Due to Wrongful Conviction
- Victim of Chicago Police Det. Guevara, Wrongfully Imprisoned 22 Years, Sues City
- 2 Men Framed by Cops for Rape, Imprisoned a Combined 42 Years, Sue Hammond & Indiana State Police
- Falsely Jailed at Age 14, Man Sues Chicago Police After Losing 24 Years to Wrongful Imprisonment
- Victim of Police Det. Guevara Sues Over 19-Year Wrongful Imprisonment
- High-Ranking Torture Cop Proteges Sued in Sign that Chicago is Not Over the Burge Era
- Man Wrongfully Imprisoned 30 Years Sues Cops & FBI Agents Who Framed Him
- Mass Exoneration Highlights Chicago’s Continuing Failure to Discipline Police
- Indiana Man Exonerated Through State’s First Gubernatorial Pardon Based on Innocence Sues Cops Who Framed Him
- Wrongfully Imprisoned Suburban Day Care Worker Sues Those Who Fixed Murder Case Against Her
- Victim of Notorious Frame-Up Cop Sues Chicago in Federal Court
- Innocent Man Sues Corrupt Police Who Framed Him for Murder
- Forensic Science Without the Science
- Innocent Cousins Sue Corrupt Police Who Framed Them for Murder
- Wrongful Conviction Roundup – Q1 2017
- 2016’s Final Wrongful Conviction Roundup
- The Profit Motive to Detain Immigrants
- BREAKING: Federal Jury Slams Chicago in One of the Highest Wrongful Conviction Awards in U.S. History
- BREAKING–Ohio’s Largest-Ever Wrongful Conviction Verdict Upheld
- Touch DNA and Wrongful Convictions
- Wrongfully Convicted Indiana Man Seeking Innocence-Based Pardon Files Petition in Face of Gov. Pence Inaction
- Chicago Heights in One of the Largest Individual Wrongful Conviction Settlements in State History
- Man Framed by Disgraced Cops Sues City
- Right to Speedy Trial Tragically Denied in KY
- Category: Class Action
- AI-generated art “Magic Avatars” company sued for biometric theft
- First Biometric Privacy Trial Verdict in Illinois Results in $228M Judgment Against BNSF Railway
- Protesters File Class Action Suit Against Denver Over Police Violence and Curfew Arrests at Protests
- Advocates Charge Illinois With Still Failing to Protect Medically Vulnerable Prisoners From COVID-19 Illness & Death
- Little Village Residents File Federal Class Action Lawsuit Over Toxic Dust Cloud
- Facebook & LinkedIn Sued for Unlawful Eavesdropping on Zoom Communications
- 1000s of Elderly & Medically Vulnerable Prisoners to Remain Behind Bars as Judge Refuses to Issue Emergency Order
- Federal Court Affirms Government’s Responsibility to Protect Incarcerated People from COVID-19
- Federal Lawsuit Demands Release of People from Cook County Jail to Prevent Coronavirus Deaths
- Student Testing Giant “College Board” Sued for Illegally Collecting & Selling Students’ Data
- Student Testing Business Sued Over Hack of Nearly 1 Million Students’ Confidential Info
- Shackled While Giving Birth
- Class Actions No More?
- Update on the Marconi v. City of Joliet Class Action Lawsuit
- Category: Civil Rights
- Police Accountability, Surveillance, Racial Disparities: 2023 Mayoral Candidates Answer Questions from the Chicago Civil Rights Community
- Mark Loevy-Reyes recognized as 2022 “Lawyer of the Year” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
- 5 University of Kentucky Football Players Sue Over False & Slanderous Charges
- Blistering COPA Report Points to Wider Chicago Police Scandal Beyond Disgraced Sgt. Ronald Watts
- More Protesters File Suit Against Denver Over Police Violence At 2020 Protests
- Statement of Karen Bloom & John Huber in Response to the Rittenhouse Verdict
- John Huber & Karen Bloom Sue Kenosha Police for the Shooting Death of Their Son Anthony Huber
- Police Officer Sued for Shooting Dead an Unarmed Man in a Mental Health Crisis
- Family Agrees to Record Settlement in Sylville Smith Police Shooting Case
- Statement of John Huber and Karen Bloom
- Activists, Legal Workers, and Journalists File Federal Lawsuit to Stop Portland-Style Attacks On Civil Rights in Chicago
- The killing of Tony Robinson shows need to drastically reduce police interactions
- Police Sued for “Execution Style” Killing
- George Floyd’s death was no accident – and neither is your local police misconduct
- Hearing Today About Whether Sheriff Dart Must Provide Evidence About Compliance With Court Order on COVID-19 in Jail
- Civil Rights Groups & Attorneys Press for Release of Detainees Needlessly Put at COVID-19 Risk By ICE
- King County Apologizes to Family of Black Youth Gunned Down by Sheriff’s Dept.
- Federal Court Orders Social Distancing at Cook County Jail and Continued Protections for Incarcerated People During Pandemic
- Hinsdale Township High School District 86 Hit with Federal Civil Rights & Open Meetings Act Lawsuit
- Top DCFS Officials & Psychiatric Hospital Sued For Allowing Gross Abuse of Children
- Why Patrick Baker – an Innocent Man – Deserved a Pardon by Kentucky Gov. Bevin
- Accessible Architecture: A Job Far From Done
- Top Burge Associates & City Sued for Torture, Quarter Century of Wrongful Imprisonment
- Seattle-Area Cops Sued for Killing Unarmed, Elderly Chinese Immigrant
- A Turning Point: Fairness in a world with Artificial Intelligence
- Disability and Law Enforcement: the Importance of Accommodation
- Prison Reform: The Heat is on to Turn the Heat ON
- The Great Ape Debate: Do Nonhumans Deserve Civil Rights?
- Category: Animals
- Category: Police corruption
- Category: Data Privacy
- Category: Artificial Intelligence
- Category: Open Meetings Act
- Category: 1st Amendment
- Category: Coronavirus
- Category: Big Wins
- Settlement Reached in Case of Professor Fired for “Uncivil” Tweets
- Attorneys Announce One of Indiana’s Largest-Ever Wrongful Conviction Settlements
- Loevy & Loevy Wins Summary Judgment in U of I FOIA Case
- Loevy & Loevy Client Juan Rivera Awarded Largest Wrongful Conviction Settlement in U.S. History
- Denial of Medical Care Case Against Benton County, Arkansas Gets $1 Million Settlement.
- False Claims Act Case against Medical College of Wisconsin gets $840k Settlement
- Robert Britton Released After 19 Years for Wrongful Conviction
- Chaunte Ott gets trial against Milwaukee and its detectives for his wrongful conviction
- Loevy Attorneys Help Win Record Settlement for Police Misconduct
- Juan Johnson Wins Lawsuit!
- Man wins $21 million in wrongful conviction case
- Jon Burge torture victim Eric Caine reacts to winning $10M settlement from City of Chicago
- Category: Featured
- Renowned Civil Rights Lawyer Locke Bowman Joins Forces with Loevy & Loevy
- Jonathan Irons Sues Police Officers Who Framed Him at Age 16
- Good Samaritan’s Family Sues Cicero For Violating Privacy and Slandering Deceased
- Making Every Vote Count
- Without Whistleblowers, Most Bailout Fraud Will Never Be Exposed
- Loevy & Loevy Investigates and Combats Racially Discriminatory Lending
- Swiftly Release Prisoners Most Vulnerable to Pandemic
- BREAKING: Federal Judge Says Prisoners Can Seek Damages for “Humiliating and Unsanitary” Treatment
- Horace Roberts, Wrongly Imprisoned For Two Decades, Sues Riverside County And Officers Who Framed Him
- Family of Black Youth Gunned Down by Seattle Area Sheriff’s Dept. Files Federal Suit
- Internet and the ADA: When the Law isn’t Enough
- Law in Action: Getting Equality in Prison
- The False Claims Act: The Cost of Defrauding
- This Mother’s Day Help Reunite a Family with the Gift of Bail Assistance
- Loevy Through The Years: A Personal Reflection Back
- Reflections about Lawyering during National Stress Awareness Month
- Constables in the Commonwealth: Armed and Dangerous
- 19 Wrongfully Convicted People Sue City & Crooked Cops Who Framed Them
- Illinois Supreme Court Rejects Narrow Framing of Officer Conduct That Might Lead to Liability for Malicious Prosecution
- Stop Shackling Pregnant Mothers
- 19-day Nationwide Prison Strike Begins with 10 Demands
- Federal Jury Slams Prison Employees for Brutal Behavior
- Activist Who Helped Force Release of Laquan McDonald Video Sues for All Videos of Harith “Snoop” Augustus Shooting
- Mama’s Day Bail Out 2018
- How Much Might Chicago Taxpayers Pay For Amazon’s HQ2?
- Doubling Down on Injustice in Schools
- Vermilion County Sued Over Dangerous, Inhumane Jail Conditions for Newborn
- The Women #MeToo Leaves Behind
- Justice and Gratitude
- A Price Tag for Voting Rights
- The Injustice of the Arpaio Pardon
- White Supremacists Uncloaked
- The Victims of the Patriot Act
- Expanding Civil Forfeiture Abuses
- Unsealed FBI Document Exposes Collusion Between Prosecutors and Detectives in Obtaining False Confessions
- Criminalizing Protest: the Latest Affront to Justice
- The Wrongful Conviction Roundup – 2017 Q2
- Josh Loevy: “I’m not a daredevil”
- Measures for Justice: “Let the Conversation Begin”
- The End of Police Accountability
- Sessions’ Mass Incarceration Revival
- Moms, Bail, and Jail
- Border Patrol Whistleblowers?
- Stripping Ayala of Power
- Civil Rights Group Sues Chicago Over Preservation of 911 Tapes
- No Budget for Justice
- Immunity Run Amok
- Criminal Justice Reform Under Sessions
- MLK Day and You
- Criminal Justice Reform Under Trump
- The Truth of the Slager Trial
- A Personal Way to Help
- Finding Gratitude Where I Can, Post-Trump
- Tracking Police Shootings
- Stop and Frisk Failure
- Police Training: How to Shoot People
- Prisoners or Slaves?
- The True Price of For-Profit Prisons
- Longest-Ever Wrongfully Incarcerated Woman in U.S. History Sues Those Who Framed Her
- The War of Judicial Vacancies
- Prison Reform Mississippi Style?
- Black Funeral Directors Sue Mississippi Coroner For Steering Government Contracts to White Funeral Homes
- Wrongful Conviction Roundup – 2016Q2
- The Cops and Gun Violence
- Utah v. Strieff – Permission to Profile
- Fathers Behind Bars
- Man, Wrongfully Imprisoned 21 Years Due to Police Misconduct, Sues City of Lynn and Police Officers Who Investigated the Crime
- Law Enforcement and LGBT Rights
- Reentry Needs
- Former Prosecutors Benched
- When the One Percent Ruins It for All
- Guilt Without Pulling the Trigger
- Innocent Kansas Man Sues Cops & Prosecutor Who Framed Him
- Public Defender Injustice
- Wrongful Conviction Roundup – 2016 Q1
- Branding Sex Offenders
- Heroin, Criminal Justice Reform, and Race
- Prosecutors and Politics
- Criminalizing Being Poor
- Voting Rights for Some
- Cost of Incarceration
- 2016 Presidential Candidates on the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
- Police Contracts Protecting Misconduct
- Justice Scalia’s Legacy of Injustice
- Loevy & Loevy Names New Partners At The Firm
- Mental Illness and the Law
- False Confessions in America
- Improving Juvenile Justice
- Investigate Homan Square
- Martin Luther King Day and You
- Doubling Down With Police Tasers
- Wrongful Conviction Roundup: Q4
- How Does US Justice Stack Up? An International Comparison
- The Unbridled Power of the Prosecutor
- Media Coverage of Black Shooting Victims (Part II): “Thugs” in the News Media
- Crime Lab Scandals Abound
- Mother Sues Houston PD For Killing Her Unarmed Son
- Rejecting the Police Cover Up
- Gratitude and Privilege in the Justice System
- Police Training: Shoot First
- The Fictional “War on Cops”
- Loevy & Loevy Accepting Applications for 2016 Justice Fellowship
- Who Understands Miranda Rights?
- The Plight of Ex-Offenders
- It’s Not About Race??
- Prosecutorial Immunity: Checkmate
- Girls in the Justice System
- Buying or Electing Judges?
- Wrongful Conviction Roundup: Q3 2015
- MI Man Sues Officials Who Allegedly Set Him Up for Murder Conviction
- Ending the Rape Kit Backlog
- Too Many Women in Prison
- When Innocence Isn’t Enough
- Black Lives Matter
- Family of Unarmed Father of Four Shot in the Back by Indy Police Sues City
- Media Coverage of Black Shooting Victims (Part I)
- Adolescent Brain Development
- Wrongful Convictions Roundup: Q3 2015
- Modern Day Debtors’ Prison
- The Price of Police Misconduct
- Race Discrimination on Juries
- The Blue Wall Must Come Down
- Policing for Profit — The Warped World of Civil Forfeiture
- Mental Illness in Jail
- Driving While Black
- Prison Legal News Sues for Info About Lucrative Prison Contracts
- False Confessions, Wrongful Convictions
- Sentencing Reform to End Mass Incarceration
- Sexual Assault in Prisons
- The Trouble With Eyewitness Identifications
- The Death Penalty is Cruel and Unusual
- The Tragic Life and Death of Glenn Ford
- CPD Stingray Use Under Fire Again
- Wrongful Conviction Round Up: Q2 2015
- The Supreme Court’s Excessive Force Standard for Detainees
- The Barbarism of Solitary Confinement
- Our Unconstitutional Bail System
- For-Profit Immigration Detention Centers
- SEC Announces $2.8 Million Settlement in Recent Illegal Insider Trading Case
- Police Perjury Warrants Criminal Charges
- Ending the School to Prison Pipeline
- Cell phone Surveillance by the Police
- The Militarization of the Police
- Juan Rivera’s Coerced False Confession
- Loevy & Loevy Names Roshna Bala Keen Partner at the Firm
- Books for Incarcerated Youth
- Tracking Police Shootings
- SEC Takes Whistleblower Protections Very Seriously; Corporations Should Too
- Nation’s Longest-Ever Wrongfully Imprisoned Man Sues Cops Who Allegedly Framed Him
- Tony Robinson: the DA’s Disappointing Refusal to Indict a Police Officer
- The Era of Mass Incarceration
- Junk Science Causing Real Convictions
- U of I’s Impermissible Firing of Professor Salaita Earns the University the 2015 Jefferson Muzzles Award
- Loevy & Loevy Argued Cook County’s First Resentencing Hearing of A Juvenile Offender Sentenced to Mandatory Life Without Parole
- New York Attorney General Proposes New Financial Fraud Whistleblower Legislation
- Cook County State’s Attorney Sued for Hiding Details of Controversial Surveillance Activities
- Three Years After Miller v. Alabama: Uncertainty Remains For the Hundreds of Juvenile Offenders Serving Life Sentences Without Parole
- SEC Warns Employers to Stay Clear of “Pre-taliatory” Acts
- Loevy & Loevy Attorney Cindy Tsai Honored with the 2015 Loyola APALSA Alumni Award of Excellence
- All Police Departments in Illinois Are Required to Video-record Lineups and Photo Arrays Effective January 1, 2015.
- CPD Hit For Hiding Records About Officers Engaged in Perjury and Other Misconduct
- Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Sexual Abuse & Beatings of 100s of Prisoners by Elite IDOC Guard Unit
- Wrongful Convictions Cases Roundup: Q1 2015
- Loevy & Loevy Recognized at Chicago Appleseed’s Pillars of Justice Awards Reception
- Amicus Curiae Brief in Kingsley v. Hendrickson: Corrections Staff Are Trained On An Objective Standard Regarding Their Use of Force
- Chicago Police Sued to Produce Key Investigative Records
- Supreme Court Ruled Former Federal Air Marshal Protected Under the Whistleblower Act
- A Step Towards the Right Direction: Year 2014, a Record High For Exonerations
- Loevy & Loevy Forces FBI To Produce Files On Convicted Chicago Cop
- Professor Sues University of Illinois Over Firing for “Uncivil” Gaza Tweets
- Congratulations to Loevy & Loevy’s 2015 Illinois Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
- Professor Sues Colorado State University President for Censorship
- School District Pays Nearly $150K To Parent Banned From School Board Meetings
- Juan Rivera Seeks DNA Testing to Obtain Justice for a Murder He Did Not Commit
- The Public Access Counselor
- Chicago Police Sued for Refusing to Disclose Extent of Cell Phone Spying
- Gretchen Helfrich Joins Loevy & Loevy
- Canadian FOIA Office Shuts Down “Out-of-Scope” Responses
- Loevy & Loevy Names Gayle Horn and Tara Thompson Partners at the Firm
- New York State Medical Practice Group Agrees To Pay $1.3 Million to the Federal Government.
- Federal Court Grants Certification of TCPA Class Against Caribbean Cruise Line
- Supreme Court: Police Officers Must Have A Warrant to Search Data Stored in Cellphones
- BREAKING: Milwaukee Man Wins $1/2 Million For Wrongful Stop & Frisk by Cops
- Record Year for Exonerations in 2013, But Not Why You Think
- Exonoree Jacques Rivera Adjusts to Freedom
- Victims of Milwaukee police body cavity “searches” speak out
- Attorney General Argues for Writ of Innocence
- Victims of Milwaukee Cops’ Rectal “Searches” Sue City
- $12M Jury Verdict in Federal Court for Man Injured by Deliberate Indifference by Prison Staff
- Coverage of Milwaukee Cops Who Sexually Assaulted African American Civilians
- Exoneration Project Client James Harden Released From Prison!
- Exoneree Carl Chatman Receives Certificate of Innocence
- Judge Refuses to Dismiss Suit Against Rumsfeld Over Americans’ Alleged Detention in Iraq
- City Ordered to Turn Over Records of Surveillance
- L.A. Sheriff’s Officials Indicted on Jail Misconduct Charges
- Justice Department Seeks to End Wrongful Convictions
- Supreme Court Grants Case Regarding Use of Force in Police Chases
- Prosecutor Gets Jail Time for Wrongful Conviction
- Detective Charged In Fatal Shooting
- Rockford Detective Admits to Coercing Confessions
- City pays $400,000 to woman who says cops groped, stripped her
- Ted White Wins $16 Million Award in Conspiracy Case
- Exonerated Ohio Man, Awarded $13.2 Million For Wrongful Murder Conviction
- Chicago Police Officer Told Women to Flash Him
- Wrongly Convicted Man to Get $3.4 Million
- Burge Victim Who Did 26 Years to Get $10 Million
- Taking On Donald Rumsfeld
- Ex-Obama Aide Sues Cops, Gold Coast Restaurant
- Aurora Sued Over False Conviction
- Burge Victim Freed
- Category: Loevy in the News
- Public outcry kills proposed FOIA law tweak that would’ve hidden police misconduct records
- $12 Million Whistleblower Settlement Spotlights Cheating in Chicago’s Minority Programs
- Chicago Police “Street Files” Might Help More Wrongfully Convicted
- Man Who Lost 2 Decades of His Life Behind Bars Sues City
- Daniel Taylor Receives Certificate of Innocence!
- Loevy & Loevy Client Thaddeus Jimenez Wins $25 Million Jury Verdict
- Juan Rivera Sues Lake County Sheriff for Wrongful Conviction
- City Pays $5 Million in Police Shooting
- Category: News at the firm
- Category: Wrongful Convictions
- Rodell Sanders, Wrongfully Imprisoned 20 Years, Got His First Taste of Freedom Today
- Man Falsely Accused of Daley Center Rape Sues Accuser, Officers
- Wisconsin votes to more than triple wrongfully convicted man’s award
- Wrongful Conviction Costs Man 20 Years
- Having to prove your innocence, again and again…
- Juan Rivera Wins Early Round in Lawsuit
- ‘ . . . I’m a work in progress,’ says client Daniel Taylor
- Man who served 24 years for crimes he did not commit released!
- Man wrongly convicted of murder sues city
- Wrongfully convicted man sues city after serving 26 years
- Category: Police Misconduct
- Man Sues State’s Attorney Karen Donnelly and Ottawa Police Department Officers Who Tried to Frame Him
- BREAKING: CPD Officials Hit for Not Producing FOIA’d Private Emails About City Business, Including Van Dyke Case
- The Disconnect Between Community and Police
- Chicago Police Sued to Force Release of Evidence of Possible Cell Phone Spying
- Woman Wins $650,000 Settlement for Alleged Sexual Assault by Cop
- “They all lied” – 5 Cops Slammed by Judge Face Federal Suit
- BREAKING – Police torturer Jon Burge to be sent to Tampa half-way house, authorities announce
- Imprisoned 6 Months Without a Bond Hearing
- Are We Suburbanizing Chicago’s Problems?
- Guards Commit 1/2 of Prison Rapes, says Justice Dept study
- Category: Police spying
- Criminalizing the Opposition to Police Shootings
- Safeguarding Your Cellphone
- Federal Suit Challenges Chicago Police Use of “Stingray” Spying Devices
- Our Surveillance State
- 2016 Presidential Candidates on Police Reform
- Why Police Shooting Cases Need Outside Prosecutors
- Debate About Police Use of Spying Equipment to be Heard in Court
- Category: Police Brutality
- Family of Unarmed Black Man, Beaten & Shot in the Back by Police, Sues for Justice
- Unequal Justice
- Journalists Sue Chicago Police Over Hidden Records of SWAT Responses to Mental Health Crises
- Mom Sues Cop Who Killed Her Unarmed Son
- Family of Man Tased to Death by Suburban Indy Cop Sues in Federal Court
- Record Wisconsin Settlement for Police Shooting of Tony Robinson, Jr.
- Racism in Blue
- The Importance of the Pipeline Protests
- Gun Ownership and Racism
- Markham Cop Beats Up, Hospitalizes Disabled Man
- Man Illegally Beaten by Cook County Jail Guard to Speak Publicly for 1st Time
- Black and Blue Lives
- Man Sues Chicago Police Who Stole a Decade of His Life
- Police Brutality in Lock-Ups
- The Price of School Cops
- Demonstrator Who Recorded Arrests Sues for Unlawful Seizure of Cell Phone
- Journalist Sues to Get Police & State’s Attorney Records of Laquan McDonald Shooting Investigations
- Conviction of ex-NYPD Officer Peter Liang: A Sign of Change for Police Accountability or A PR Stunt at the Expense of the “Model Minorities”?
- Denver Sued for Refusing to Disclose Video Evidence of Jail Death
- Milwaukee Settles Racially-Tinged Body Cavity / Strip Search Suits With 74 Black Men
- Police Perjury — All. The. Time.
- A Matter of Perspective?
- Loevy & Loevy Client Brandon Smith Wins Release of Laquan McDonald Shooting Videos
- Journalist, Attorney Respond to Mayor Emanuel’s Comments on Release of Police Shooting Video
- Sexual Assault by Police Officers
- A Culture of Police Violence
- Witness Who Recorded Denver Police Brutality Sues Police For Threats, Unlawful Search
- Family of Unarmed Black Teen Killed by Police Sues Madison
- Caught on Tape: Iowa Cops Shoot Black Bystander 5 Times, Then Lie About It
- Police Attacking Autism
- Do You Trust The Police?
- Police Shootings: the Early Warning Signs
- An Elected Police Accountability Board?
- Police Body Cameras: Effective Tool To Stop Police Misconduct?
- Freddie Gray and the Blue Wall Syndrome
- ACLU Reports CPD Stop & Frisks Procedures Disproportionately Targets Minorities
- The Futility of Reparations Without Change
- The Futility of Reparations Without Change
- The Futility of Reparations Without Change
- The Futility of Reparations Without Change
- Another Police Brutality Incident Involving North Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager
- Another Police Brutality Incident Involving North Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager
- Another Police Brutality Incident Involving North Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager
- Another Police Brutality Incident Involving North Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager
- Excessive Force Case: Kingsley v. Hendrickson
- Settlement Strategies in the Midst of Police Brutality Incidents
- Social Media Creating Awareness Of Police Brutality and Misconduct Across the Nation
- Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes and Samantha Urbani; Victims of police brutality at Lollapalooza.
- LA Cops Acquitted in Beating Death Caught on Video
- College student sues Chicago PD for police brutality
- Alleged witness describes cop beating victim
- Category: Police Shootings
- Category: Juvenile Justice
- Category: Whistleblower Protection
- Russia Sanctions Open Door to Whistleblowers
- Category: Medicare/Medicaid Fraud
- Category: Pharmaceutical Fraud
- Category: Financial Fraud
- Category: Prisoners' Rights
- ADA in Prison: Accessibility in Prisoner’s Rights
- After Night in Prison, Prison Director Calls for Solitary Confinement Reform
- Bias Prompts Washington State to Halt Executions
- Crime and Excessive Punishment
- Prisoners’ Advocates Conference
- Category: Sentencing
- Prison Gerrymandering – Prisoner Population Counts and Their Effect on Democracy
- Artificial Intelligence and Criminal Justice
- Life Without Parole for Pot?
- Compassion for Elderly Inmates
- 2016 Presidential Candidates on Prison Reform and Mass Incarceration
- Police Violence Against Native Americans
- Keep Juveniles Out of Adult Prisons
- End Mandatory Minimum Sentences
- Category: FOIA
- Category: Videos
- Category: More
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Big Wins
- Cook County jury returns $33.5 million verdict against the Village of Dolton in police chase case, one of the biggest police misconduct verdicts in Illinois history
- Newly released report says COPA recommended firing of cop who worked under disgraced Sgt. Ronald Watts
- Jury finds Chicago cops framed man for 1988 murder, awards him more than $17 million
- City agrees to pay $9.3 million for wrongful conviction tied to Burge detectives
- Aldermen sign off on $31M settlement to Englewood 4 after FOP tirade
- Jury awards former Heritage nurse $5.2 million in lawsuit
- 'Englewood Four' await $31 million city payout
- Jury awards $15 million to Baltimore man exonerated of murder
- Six-figure settlement for young man wrongly accused of arson in Stockertown
- CSU-Pueblo settles suit; prof alleged retaliation for speaking out
- Jury awards $6.7 million to woman alleging repeated rapes by guard in Sheriff David Clarke’s Milwaukee County Jail
- Jury Awards $22 Million in Damages to Wrongly Convicted Death Row Inmate
- $20 Million for 20 lost years
- Wrongful conviction to cost city
- Cop cases: Burge victim who did 26 years to get $10 million.
- Deal on wrongful conviction
- McHugh to pay $12M in whistleblower suit
- Indiana man wins $3 million wrongful conviction settlement
- Man gets record $21 million Award
- $25 million for unjust conviction
- City settles Burge suit
- No charges, so Hobley can collect $6.5 million
- City to pay $1.25 million in Burge case
- Jury awards Hallett $450K
- $525,000 OK’d in cop abuse case
- Man, uncle would share $260,000 in alleged beating
- Wrongly imprisoned man to get $2M
- $6.3 million for man jailed 25 years for rape he didn’t commit
- U.S. jury fines city $1 million
- Ford Heights Four lawsuit settled
- Man wins $2 million for false arrest
- $9 millones por condena errónea
- Taxpayers on the hook for strip-searches
- Man wins $4 mil. in case vs. cops
- Cop victims may be paid: $16.5 million deal urged in police mistreatment suit
- Another Burge case, another $10 million
- City to settle Burge case
- Borsellino wins $11 M in suit vs. former NYSE Prez Putnam
- Cop shooting victim gets $720,000
- Son gets $1.35 million in mom’s County Jail death
Consistent Impacts
- Wilmington City Council announces $7M settlement for man wrongly convicted of murder: ‘This is not today’s police department’
- John Horton, who spent 23 years in prison for murder, receives certificate of innocence
- Three East Cleveland men each awarded $5 million for wrongful murder convictions
- What’s the Price of Justice?
- Wrongfully convicted man says Chicago cops called him a ‘lying-assed n—–’
- Justice For the Wrongfully Convicted
- Man who says he was wrongfully convicted sues police, FBI
- Video played in court shows Jon Burge taking 5th in alleged torture case
- Decades-old murder charges dropped after retired cop’s misconduct revealed
- Journalist Who Told Laquan McDonald’s Story Faces Fight Over Sources
- McCullough lawsuit continues after settlement with Sycamore
- Civil trial opens for two Baltimore homicide detectives sued by man exonerated of murder
- Pardoned Chicago-area man who spent decade in Indiana prison sues police
- She Knew She'd Deliver Her Son While She Was in Jail. She Didn't Expect to Do It in Chains.
- Former day care worker suing after conviction overturned in alleged shaken baby case
- Third Woman Sues Sheriff Over Birth in Milwaukee Jail
- How did Terrance Jenkins Die?
- Jury awards $6.7 million to woman alleging repeated rapes by guard in Sheriff David Clarke’s Milwaukee County Jail
- Family of man shocked 16 times suing Greenwood police
- Police fabricated evidence, bullied witness to frame man for murder, lawsuit says
- Man Acquitted Of Murder Sues Police, Says He Was Framed
- Once Convicted of 1957 Killing, Man Gets Innocence Certificate
- Lawsuit: Denver DA, CO Attorney General Impeding Wrongful Conviction Program
- The Odd Couple of Open Meetings activists teams up against a closed City Council
- Police Framed Us, Cousins Say
- Cousins exonerated in Knox Co. murder file suit alleging police framed them
- Wisconsin cops in shootings no longer review videos of incidents first
- Shackled During Labor, Woman Sues Milwaukee Sheriff
- Madison settles Tony Robinson lawsuit for record $3.35 million
- Terminal is just the start, lawyers vow
- Inmate released in Burge-related case
- Alleged victim of cop torture set to be freed after 24 years
- Man files suit over wrongful conviction
- Freed man: City rigged my case
- Missing police files focus of federal lawsuit
- Judge: Police must detail cell tracking records
- Keeping cops honest: Video recording exposes a bad drug bust
- Glenview police board fires cop accused of lying at trial
- Family sues, IMPD responds
- Dispute over medical records yields partial refunds
- In police abuse suits, city secrecy has costs
- Freed man credits law studies
- Outspoken professor sues U. of I. for lost job
- The writing is on the wall, U. of I.
- Unanswered questions linger
- No Charges for Wisconsin Officer in Black Man’s Death
- Rivera lawsuit: Police planted blood on shoes
- Legal settlement ends jail’s ban on publications
- City settles 2011 police shooting lawsuit
- Cop accused in fatal shooting seeks pension
- Charges dismissed in 1957 cold case killing
- Suit seeks cellular tracking records from police dept.
- Jury weighs ex-Death Row inmate’s $20 million case against FBI agents
- Worker who blasted CTA finally getting pension
- Police video a broken system: Recent case shows how damage, negligence hamper program
- Marcus Lyons will never give up the fight to clear his name
- New Lovelace lawyer: No crime committed
- Cops review time in custody
- 14 may join police-custody suit
- Exonerated man is taking Burge to court
- Cop misconduct deals clear hurdle
- Porch victim’s brother sues city
- Man imprisoned for nearly 25 years certified innocent
- Schools create a life mission
- Clout-heavy contractor to pay $12 million in fraud settlement
- Chicago cop claims torture by other cops
- Taking on Donald Rumsfeld: Michael Kanovitz accuses the former Secretary of Defense of condoning the torture of his clients
- Free, but still a prisoner: Dubious conviction haunts Lebrew Jones 2 years after release
- Lawsuit claims cops lied about crash that killed 8-year-old
- Killed by a cop car
- Lawsuit latest fallout at Proviso
- Wrongfully convicted man awarded record amount
- Cop accused of hitting handcuffed teen
- Burge detective to face accuser
- Ex-cop defends interrogation
- 2 given life as teens to be resentenced
- IHSA faces open-records suit
- Ex-Obama aide sues cops, Gold Coast restaurant
- Exonerated Man is Finally Free
- Man freed by clemency act: ‘I can breathe’
- Holten alleges police misconduct in Genoa case
- Mother files lawsuit over son’s jail death
- Man freed from Death Row sues city, alleging torture
- Cops face depositions in torture lawsuit
- Chicago police sued in alleged torture case
- Rare legal settlements demand officers pay too
- Man cleared in ’90 murder, rape sues Chicago police
- Woman says she planted a gun for crooked cops
- Ex-officer, town to pay $450,000
- Police officers indicted in beating outside bar
- Family: Cops beat autistic boy
- Family of autistic boy sues city, police board
- Paraplegic claims indicted cops ridiculed him
- Witness in Green case claims she lied in ‘95
- Aurora sued over false conviction
- Exonerated man gets OK to pursue lawsuit
- Convicted arsonist hopes science proves innocence
- Flight attendant wins $200,000 in bias case
- Ruling Tosses Parts of City Disorderly Conduct Law
- Lawsuit alleges cops set man up
- Council may approve cop abuse settlement
- $2 million award in false arrest case
- 4 men get pardons, clean slates
- Couple wins suit against city after baby taken
- Suit charges city cops mistreated 3 prisoners
- Harvey a ‘police state’ where officers robbed, beat men: suit
- City may settle police sex lawsuit
- Doubt returns in 1991 slaying
- Wrongly convicted Dixmoor 5 sue police
- Given life as a teen, man gets hearing
- Cop who had sex with intern still on job
- ‘I want my name back’
- Illinois man’s historic pardon is up to Pence
- $60 Million in Strip Search Settlements for Cook County Jail Prisoners
- Police fatal shooting case unravels
- City, inmate settle lawsuit
- Innocent cellmates
- 2 officers held liable in assault
- Cops go unpunished for abuse, suit says
- Judge nixes claim against whistleblower
- He raped a white woman – or did he?
- New twist in old case
- Police shootings spur suits
- Suits filed over strip searches
- Youth’s family hires lawyer after video with cops surfaces
- Freed prisoner enjoys ‘first day of the rest of my life’
- City OKs $10M payout in another Burge case
- Alleged police-torture victim tastes freedom
- Man alleges in suit police framed him
- Judge forces cop to testify
- CME Veteran wins suit over Archipelago
- Man to Cop: Please Stop Beating My Brother
- Cop beating caught on camera
- Case spotlights ‘code of silence’
- Lawyers: Crooked-cop case an indictment of Chicago police
- Citing corrupt cop, pair wants convictions tossed
- Man free after police corruption in drug case
- Man who spent 27 years in prison exonerated of friend’s murder
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