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50th Anniversary of Miranda Decision 6/12/16

On Jan. 31, 1976, Ernesto Arturo Miranda died of stab wounds suffered in a fight over a card game in a dive bar in Phoenix…

Philadelphia Inquirer Op-Ed
Philadelphia Inquirer 3/21/12

The city has agreed to pay $1.8 million to the family of a killed when a police officer, chasing an armed suspect, fired into an East Germantown hone during a 2008 New Year’s party.

Popper & Yatvin obtains $1.8 settlement in fatal police shooting
School health care goes beyond nurses 2/8/12

Sending children off to school and letting someone else take responsibility for them is never easy…

Philadelphia Inquirer Op-Ed
Sweet deal for lying police officer 5/18/10

A police officer shoots himself, goes with the old line that “a black guy did it,” and sends the police force on a wild-goose chase…

Philadelphia Inquirer Op-Ed
Court reforms are lopsided 3/16/10

Since an Inquirer series questioned the efficacy of Philadelphia’s criminal-justice system, the courts have produced a flurry of ad hoc measures to address the perceived problems…

Philadelphia Inquirer Op-Ed
How not to investigate a fatal police shooting 11/25/09

Early on the morning Of Nov, 26, 2006, Sean Bell left a Queens nightclub where he had been celebrating his marriage, scheduled for later that day. While sitting in his car and unarmed, Bell was killed…

Philadelphia Inquirer Op-Ed
A job for a grand jury 8/14/09

Years before his own indictment, former New York state Chief Judge Sol Wachtler famously observed that district attorneys have so much influence over grand juries that “by and large” they could get one to “indict a ham sandwich…”

Philadelphia Inquirer Op-Ed
WHYY Newsworks 6/29/11

The city has agreed to pay $1.8 million to the family of a killed when a police officer, chasing an armed suspect, fired into an East Germantown hone during a 2008 New Year’s party.

Philadelphia Inquirer Op-Ed
Diabetes Litigation –
ADA Diabetes Forecast

A Philadelphia club owner walks into a lawyer’s office and tells his tale: He was arrested for a liquor code violation. He uses an insulin pump…

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Diabetes Litigation –
Legal Intelligencer

Diabetics arrested by police in Philadelphia would be guaranteed proper medical care during their time in jail under the terms of a proposed settlement filed in U.S. District Court on Thursday of a class-action lawsuit brought by the American Diabetes Association…

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Diabetes Litigation –
Philadelphia Inquirer

Philadelphia police have made “significant improvements” in the way they process and care for people with diabetes held in lockups, the final report of a court-appointed monitor concludes…

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Diabetes Litigation –
Final Monitoring Report

This Final Monitoring Report reviews the parties’ implementation of the Rosen Injunctive Class Settlement Agreement (the “Agreement”) through October 17, 2005…

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NJ Racial Profiling – ACLU

Abortion care, trans people’s right to live freely, people’s right to vote – our freedoms are at stake and we need you with us. Donate today and fuel our fight in courts, statehouses, and nationwide…

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NJ Racial Profiling –
Legal Intelligencer – Commencement

Four of Philadelphia’s top civil rights lawyers have joined forces to file a class-action suit in I-JS. District Court in New Jersey alleging claims of racial profiling by the New Jersey State Police…

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NJ Racial Profiling – Legal Intelligencer – Settlement

The state of New Jersey has agreed to pay S250,000 to settle claims by three African- American men who said they were victims of racial profiling by the New Jersey state police…

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NJ Racial Profiling –
Failure to Protect

The City of Philadelphia has been hit with a civil rights suit by the parents of a man who was stabbed to death just minutes after asking police to protect him from a next-door neighborhood who had threatened his life when he caught the man burglarizing his apartment…

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Student Suicide Suit –
Legal Intelligencer

Finding that a jury Simply got it wrong, a federal magistrate judge has ordered a new trial in a civil rights suit brought by relatives of a man who committed suicide after a police officer allegedly threatened to tell his family that he was gay…

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39th District –
Philadelphia Inquirer

The 39 pages, bare-bones excerpts from files that city officials want to keep secret, describe 658 city police-corruption investigations dating back 12 years…

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39th District –
Monitoring

The judge for the 1996 settlement agreement appointed plaintiffs’ attorneys Stefan Presser, David Rudovsky and Alan as external monitors. Clearly, the monitors have their own reasons for wanting the ability to more easily track complaints against officers…

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Other Popper & Yatvin Media Mentions

Half Empty

Along with a recent Inquirer article on the shooting death of a 21 -year-old with life ahead of him by an off-duty Philadelphia cop with trouble behind him, the chilling reality of preferential police treatment was illustrated by a story on the very same page…

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Blood on the Badge

“He’s got a gun,” Dodd told DiPasquale. Dodd never saw a gun, and it would turn out that Dawson didn’t have one. Later, Dodd would say that he had jumped o this conclusion merely because he had seen another man at a previous car stop conceal a gun by sitting on his hand…

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Up Against the Blue Wall

Becker, the ex-cop says, never hit anyone. Becker was nonetheless convicted twice of misdemeanor assault and sentenced to probation, although the felony charge against him was quickly dropped…

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