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Civil Rights Lawyers Get Settlement for Breach of Their Civil Rights

If there's one subset of the American public on whom corrupt police officers might want to go easy re: civil rights violations, it would probably be civil rights lawyers. Unfortunately, some overzealous Brooklyn cops didn't get the memo.

May 15, 20121

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Settlements

The Lesser-Known UC Davis Settlement

The news in the past couple of days has been awash with the announcement of the California Supreme Court task force's report on the infamous UC Davis pepper spraying incident....

April 12, 2012

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Settlements

Police Misconduct Costs Beloit $265,000

Beloit, Wisconsin will have to pay $265,000 to a teenager who was illegally strip-searched in public by a police officer. Conner Poff was sitting in his car with some friends...

April 9, 20121

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Settlements

$6.2 Million Settlement for Arrested Protestors

Last week, the City of Chicago agreed to settle with the group of Iraq War protesters who were unjustly arrested in 2003 to the tune of $6.2 million. The Chicago...

February 16, 20121

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