Guard Who Beat Him Was Finally Charged With a Felony ─ 2-1/2 Years After the Attack Litroy Bolton, who was the victim of a brutal, videotaped attack by a guard at Cook County Jail in January 2014, will speak publicly about the attack for the first time at a news conference tomorrow. The guard attacked… Read More
The national deficit has been declining since its peak in 2009, but balancing the federal budget will undoubtedly be a hotly debated topic during this presidential election year. One of the government’s largest areas of spending is Medicare. Accounting for 15% of the federal budget, with a spending budget of $540 billion, Medicare is the… Read More
As our country looks for a quick fix to the many problems plaguing our criminal justice system, some courts and police departments are trying to use artificial intelligence as a cure-all. One flawed idea is that technology could be used by courts to take bias out of the equation for fairer sentencing decisions. Police departments could… Read More
Loevy & Loevy is currently litigating a class action on behalf of certain retired City of Joliet employees who are being required to pay more for their health care benefits in retirement than they paid while working for Joliet. To learn more about the case, and to access the Class Notice and other relevant court… Read More
Black Lives Matter. It’s sad and confusing that such an important and basic affirmation is being treated as if it was a war cry against cops or a denunciation of white people. It is neither. Instead, it simply acknowledges centuries of violent oppression at the hands of those with economic, political, and police/military power and… Read More
Tax Monies Used to Enforce Racial Segregation For Decades, Federal Suit Says GULFPORT, MS – A federal lawsuit filed today accuses the Coroner of Harrison County of steering the County’s morgue, cremation, and burial business to white-owned funeral homes. The suit also recounts how the Coroner has refused to allow African American-owned funeral homes to… Read More
Louisville man held on series of bogus charges for nearly 8 years, only to have them all dropped LOUISVILLE, KY – Percy Brown, who suffered one of the longest pre-trial imprisonments in state history, is now suing in federal court the Louisville police who framed him. Brown and one of his attorneys, Elliot Slosar of the civil… Read More
We ache again over senseless police shootings of black men. In the span of two days, two tragic police killings of black men have shaken our sense of justice. In the first, Alton Sterling was literally pinned to the ground by an officer when a second cop shot him at close range. In the other… Read More
Picked up on a bogus drug charge, scholarship student Jermaine Walker had his young life irretrievably side-tracked by cop frame-up CHICAGO – After spending a decade in prison on a bogus drug charge, Jermaine Walker, 39, today sued the police who framed him. In 2006 Walker was on a full scholarship at Fisk University studying… Read More
This quarter’s wrongful conviction roundup is equal parts tragic and infuriating. Once again, it includes years of lives wasted in prison, stories of blatant official misconduct, and devastating miscarriages of justice in the name of the people. First, Loevy & Loevy client Jermaine Walker won a Certificate of Innocence in April, after a Cook County… Read More
