Tag Archives: civil rights

An Ohio man who claims he was assaulted and given Narcan unnecessarily by a fire chief, has filed suit against the chief personally seeking $4.5 million in damages. Jordan Aulizio filed suit against Kinsman Fire Chief Cory Van Kanegan claiming his civil rights were violated.

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The Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union has filed suit on behalf of six Pawtucket firefighters accusing the city, the fire chief and a city police officer of violating their constitutional rights by conducting a locker search in September. Firefighters Noah LeBlanc, Stephen Garlick, Manuel Benevides, Scott McDonald, and Steven Como brought the action by and through the ACLU’s attorneys.

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A man who was convicted of arson for a 1985 fire that killed his wife and daughters, has lost his bid to hold investigators accountable for the years he spent in prison because they used now-discredited myths about arson.

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The City of Utica, New York has settled a federal lawsuit that accused the city of wrongful death and “purposely and maliciously withholding protective services from (the victims) because they lived in a low-income neighborhood.”

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A fire department in Virginia has prevailed in federal court in a suit that alleged the First Amendment rights of two firefighters had been violated. Last Friday, a jury ruled in favor of the Front Royal Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department and its president, David Santmyers, in suit brought last year by Philip Charles and David Ellinger.

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A Chicago firefighter who was the victim of outrageous police misconduct by a group of corrupt officers that included threats to plant evidence against him and get him fired, has passed an important legal hurtle in efforts to hold the individual officers responsible.

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A photographer who was arrested by a Suffolk County Police Sergeant in 2011 because he was filming police activity has agreed to accept $200,000 to settle his civil rights suit. Phillip Datz, a freelance videographer, was arrested in July, 2011 ...

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A veteran Boston firefighter filed a lawsuit December 9, 2009 against the City of Boston and two of its police officers, after he was acquitted by a Roxbury Municipal Court jury of charges of resisting arrest and assaulting Boston police ...

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