May 9, 2023 NEW YORK, NY - A Manhattan federal jury on Tuesday found Donald Trump responsible for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in 1996 and then defaming her, awarding her $5 million in damages. After a two-week trial, the jury had to find that...
June 30, 2023 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Proud Boys organization must pay more than $1.03 million to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in D.C., after a judge determined that members of the group damaged a Black Lives Matter sign displayed on the building’s front lawn...
October 26, 2023 ATLANTA, GA - A federal judge in Atlanta decided that Republicans in Georgia violated a major civil rights law by creating voting districts that weakened the influence of Black voters. Judge Steve C. Jones of the Northern District of Georgia demanded that the...
January 29, 2024 NEW YORK, NY - A federal jury in Manhattan ruled quickly on Monday, finding Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and two lawyers not accountable in the case of a former Black associate who claimed he was fired for bringing up issues of racial...
January 20, 2023 NEW ORLEANS, LA – Nearly three years after a Louisiana judge overturned Darrill Henry’s first-degree murder conviction based on new exculpatory DNA evidence, the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s office has dropped all charges and says it will not seek a new trial. Impact Trial,...
June 26, 2015 JERSEY CITY, NJ – Following a three-week civil trial, a New Jersey jury took less than three hours to find New Jersey-based Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH), guilty of fraud. The jury determined that the “gay conversion” services offered by JONAH...
CENTRAL ISLIP, NY – After an eight-day trial before Judge Joseph F. Bianco, a federal jury found that Suffolk County prison officials and guards used excessive force against inmate Robert Houston, in violation of his eighth amendment rights. The jury found that the defendant, Thomas Cotter, confined Mr. Houston to suicide watch as...
July 6, 2012 NEW YORK, NY – A federal jury determined that certain Asian American Port Authority police officers were the victims of retaliation by their bosses after the police officers’ participation in a previous lawsuit against the Port Authority. The jury found that the officers...
August 23, 2012 NEW YORK, NY – In a case that drew widespread attention, federal court Judge Robert Patterson, Jr. found 53rd Street Partners and one of its restaurant managers liable for discrimination on the basis of sex against a former employee and ordered nearly $200,000...