Tag: LAWSUITS
Allen Henson, a photographer who’s made a name for himself in part by taking pictures of topless women around New York City, found out this week he’s being sued for $1.1 million by the company that owns the Empire State Building. Henson photographed model Shelby Carter atop the iconic building in August, an act the […]
In a battle of the acronyms, the Insane Clown Posse (ICP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) are teaming up to sue the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In 2011, the FBI filed a report labeling Juggalos–ICP fans–as a “a loosely organized hybrid gang.” ICP have sued once before, but now they’re bringing out […]
A cop afraid of a dog and its unarmed owner opened fire on them inside their own Coney Island apartment building, according to a lawsuit. Fortunately, the shots missed and neither Elizabeth Villafane nor her bullmastiff Bubba were hurt. The pair cops were in Villafane’s building to issue a warrant for her arrest for walking an […]
Good news for the man born William Leonard Roberts II: Rick Ross the corrections-officer-turned-rapper gets to keep his name, despite legal action from Rick Ross the cocaine kingpin. And appeals court dismissed the lawsuit the convicted drug dealer filed in 2010, which alleged the rapper appropriated his image and likeness, arguing for Rick Ross’s First Amendment […]
If Mayor Bloomberg and New York City Housing Authority chair John Rhea get there way, land at eight Manhattan public housing complexes will be leased to developers to build luxury apartments. City Council, along with NYCHA tenants and the Legal Aid Society, is suing in an attempt to block that from happening. The plan would […]
We should have expected the first Citi Bike-related lawsuits to be rolling in by now, but what’s surprising is that they are unrelated to the bikes themselves. Two separate pedestrians plan to sue the city because they tripped over bike racks. The first actually seems reasonable: Howard Orlick, 52, is legally blind. He says he twisted […]
A new lawsuit–filed by the family of a man who was killed by NYPD officers last year–hopes to improve the department’s capacity to dealing with the mentally ill. Mohamed Bah was shot and killed by officers after his mother called 911 to help him get to the hospital and treat his depression. She wasn’t expecting […]
Allen Moye, a 54-year-old, legally blind black man has filed the first stop-and-frisk-related lawsuit since the federal court decision that ruled the tactic unconstitutional. Moye alleges he was wrongly stopped while waiting for a friend in Harlem in 2010. “It was racial profiling, what they did,” he said. “It’s a different Jim Crow. They try […]
Until recently, if you were stopped and frisked, arrested or issued a summons, then had all charges against you dropped, your name and address would go into a big database the NYPD could use against you in future investigations. Now, thanks to a lawsuit from the New York Civil Liberties Union, that’s no longer the […]
In East New York, there are nine homeless shelters. In the community district that encompasses Carroll Gardens, Park Slope, Gowanus, Red Hook, and Cobble Hill, there is one. It’s no secret that low-income areas bear the brunt of shelters across the cities–hello, Bed-Stuy (25 shelters) and Brownsville (19)–but a group of East New Yorkers are […]
