Entries by NY Personal Injury Attorneys

Maya Wiley to Head The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, The Leadership Conference Education Fund

NEW YORK, N.Y. – June 12, 2021: Former New York City mayoral candidate Maya Wiley addresses a rally at the National Action Network House of Justice Headquarters in Manhattan. (Shutterstock) By Civil Rights WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights announced today that it and its sister organization, The Leadership Conference Education […]

Central Park 5 Members Call on New York Lawmakers to Support Wrongful Conviction Bill

New York, NY – September 17, 2021: NYS Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie attends SEIU 32BJ rally on Columbus Circle. (Shutterstock) By Denis Slattery, NY Daily News ALBANY — Members of the Central Park Five are putting legislative leaders on notice over a bill they believe could help free other innocent people from jail. Three members […]

Blocking an Immune System Molecule in Mice May Help Prevent Long-term Disabilities After Traumatic Brain Injury

By Jeanne Paz, The Conversation The big idea Blocking an immune system molecule that accumulates after traumatic brain injury could significantly reduce the injury’s detrimental effects, according to a recent mouse study my neuroscience lab and I published in the journal Science. The cerebral cortex, the part of the brain involved in thinking, memory and […]

‘Open the Door or We Die’: Africans Report Racism and Hostility Trying to Flee Ukraine

African war refugee from Ukraine at the central station in Warsaw. – Warsaw, Poland 11.03.2022 (Shutterstock) By Char Adams, Zinhle Essamuah, Shamar Walters and Rima Abdelkader, NBC News Alexander Somto Orah, 25, was among thousands of people crowding a Kyiv train station Friday, hoping to flee Ukraine amid the Russian invasion. He said he and […]

NYCOSH Report Finds New York State Construction Worker Deaths Remain Alarmingly High

The New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) on February 10 released its annual construction fatality report, “Deadly Skyline: An Annual Report on Construction Fatalities in New York State.” The report, which analyzed newly available data from 2020, found that the construction industry in both New York State and New York City remained far […]

New Evidence of Discrimination Against Black Coaches in the NFL Since 2018

By Joshua D. Pitts, The Conversation Boldly going where no NFL coach has gone before, recently fired Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores put his future career at stake and filed a class-action lawsuit against the league, the New York Giants, the Denver Broncos and the Dolphins, alleging discriminatory hiring practices among team owners. Coincidentally, […]

A 10-year-old Girl Died of COVID After her Teacher Appointed her the ‘Class Nurse.’ Her Parents Want Answers.

By Andrea Salcedo, The Washington Post Teresa Sperry beamed with pride in September when she told her father about the job she’d been assigned by her fifth-grade teacher. Days earlier, the teacher had made Teresa the “class nurse,” putting the Virginia girl in charge of walking sick classmates to the nurse’s office, waiting for them […]

With NYPD Stop and Frisk Case at Crossroads, Civil Rights Groups Demand Monitoring Reforms

Thousands of demonstrators march down Fifth Avenue in New York protesting the NYPD policy of stop and frisk. – New York NY/USA-June 17, 2012 (Shutterstock) By Greg B. Smith, THE CITY More than eight years ago, then-Manhattan U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin issued a landmark order ruling that the NYPD was routinely violating the […]

Free Consultations for Workers with Long-Haul COVID-19 to File Workers’ Compensation Claims

Workers who believe they contracted COVID-19 due to exposure at work, especially those suffering from ongoing long-haul symptoms, have rights and can file for workers’ compensation claims. There may be both cash and medical benefits that you can receive. With the pandemic into nearly two years, many hardworking New Yorkers are still experiencing long-haul COVID19 […]

‘It’s not OK’: Apartment manager calls cops on Black resident to ‘see which apartment’ is his in viral TikTok

By Laiken Neumann, Daily Dot In a viral TikTok video, an apartment manager calls the cops on a Black resident at the complex’s gym to make sure he lives there. The resident, TikTok user @beautifulsoulsinnyc, began recording the incident as soon as the police introduced themselves to him.   @beautifulsoulsinnyc Building manager @HamiltonCoveapts called the […]

One in 10 Black People Living in the U.S. are Immigrants, New Study Shows

Black immigrants have higher incomes and more education than U.S.-born Black people, but advocates say racism still holds them back. By Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post The demographics of America’s Black population are in the middle of a major shift, with 1 in 10 having been born outside the United States. That’s 4.6 million Americans, a […]