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When may police shoot a fleeing suspect? On June 28th, New York state police apprehended fugitive David Sweat, who had escaped from a maximum security prison with another inmate, Richard Matt. According to Mr. Sweat, he separated from Mr. Matt after arguing about Mr. Matt’s alcohol use, claiming Mr. Matt was too old and out
If today’s report is true, ten years ago Mr. Cosby admitted under oath sedating women for sexual purposes. Given that, how dare he publicly vilify Ms. Dickinson and accuse her of lying when she tells a very similar story? Now we know why Mr. Cosby has failed to appear for his deposition in our litigation,
Yale Law School, 1985. I read the wonderfully named Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court case which held that marriage was a fundamental American right, and struck down laws banning interracial couples from marrying. “I want to write a law review article arguing that the marriage laws should include gay and lesbian couples too, under
Dylann Roof, the young white supremacist who allegedly murdered nine African Americans at a historic black church in South Carolina, wanted to “start a race war.” He dressed for the massacre in a jacket adorned with an apartheid-era South African flag, and one from white-ruled Rhodesia. He allowed a woman inside the Emanuel A.M.E. Church
The Bloom Firm is pleased to announce the Civil Rights Live Legal Panel meeting on Wednesday, July 1, 2015. The inaugural Civil Rights Live Legal Panel is being convened to serve as a positive platform for meaningful dialog between community members and law enforcement personnel. The panel will allow us to address the continued challenges that
America is in the midst of an epidemic of police violence against civilians. More than a thousand Americans are killed by law enforcement annually, according to most experts, and many more are injured. Federal, state and local laws protect citizens’ right to be free of state sanctioned brutality. My law firm, The Bloom Firm, represents
This Dennis Hastert case is growing more confounding. The former Speaker of the House was indicted a few weeks ago in a case that was widely reported for its allegations that Hastert paid hush money to a sexual abuse victim. Yet Hastert was not charged with sexual abuse, nor was anyone charged with extortion. Hastert
Is sexual abuse of girls a tawdry family secret to be swept under the rug or a serious crime? For the Duggar family, based on what we know now, the answer is clear: protect the perpetrator, run out the clock on legal claims, and rely on dubious friends to mask the problem. The Duggars are
In the least inspiring civil rights move ever, Boy Scouts of America President Robert Gates this week urged the group to stop banning gay Scout leaders not because he wanted to do the right thing, but merely out of self-interest. “We must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it
Five of the world’s biggest banks are about to plead guilty to a stunning array of crimes. So brazen were these superrich, powerful banks that they referred to themselves as “the cartel” or “the mafia” as they illegally fixed prices to line their own pockets. The banks’ crimes have to do with price-fixing on the foreign currency exchange market,