Fewer than 10% of tenants who were served with eviction papers in the city last year were able to have legal representation, according to the Metropolitan Council on Housing.
Council members, advocates call on city to provide low-income tenants with attorneys in housing court
Corinne Lestch
Wed, 11 Jun 2014 18:26:19 GMT
The state’s top court said that, in most instances, the police must obtain a warrant before they can obtain tracking information about a suspect.
New Jersey Supreme Court Restricts Police Searches of Phone Data
By KATE ZERNIKE
Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:28:31 GMT
Eric Schneiderman, New York’s attorney general, has sent out letters to 20 employers seeking information on the prepaid cards, whose fees can eat into an hourly worker’s pay.
DealBook: Payroll Cards Are Under Scrutiny by New York’s Attorney General
By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG
Wed, 03 Jul 2013 01:28:07 GMT
The lawsuit challenging the NYPD’s program of stopping, questioning and sometimes frisking people came to a close at midnight Wednesday after pending for five years, four months and 12 days.
Holder mugs NYPD
Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:05:49 GMT
At the urging of a brave Bronx teacher brutally raped by a city cop, the state Assembly unanimously passed a bill Wednesday to toughen the state’s rape laws. The so-called “rape is rape” bill would classify vaginal, anal and oral contact as rape. The latter two, under current state law, ...
NY Assembly Passes 'Rape Is Rape' Bill
The Daily Politics
Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:14:36 GMT
An R&B artist who was ordered by a New York federal jury last year to cough up the $1 million reward he promised for the return of his laptop is hiding his assets to weasel out of paying the bill, a new lawsuit claims.
Suit claims R&B artist is reneging on reward promise
BARBARA ROSS
Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:39:18 GMT
Those who prefer to be extremely prepared, should an amorous encounter arise, can rest assured that Brooklyn prosecutors won't automatically assume that they're prostitutes. Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes sent a letter to NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly saying his office won't use condoms as evidence of prostitution, so police should stop seizing them. Health advocates say that when police link condom possession to sex work it discourages safe sex, so this is a nice "good cop" counterpoint to tonight's earlier report that witnesses were de-pantsed on Hynes' watch.
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If You Carry Lots of Condoms, the Brooklyn D.A. Won’t Hold It Against You
Margaret Hartmann
Thu, 30 May 2013 07:03:31 GMT
Q: I got caught trying to sneak across the border in 2004. Immigration let me go so I could appear in court, but I never went. If the immigration reform bill becomes law, will I benefit?
IMMIGRATION: New law will forgive most violations
Allan Wernick
Wed, 29 May 2013 08:00:53 GMT
