David Rudovsky recently appeared on WHYY’s podcast, The Why: Philly Explained, to provide a brief history of Bailey v. City of Philadelphia, a federal class action lawsuit filed in 2011 by KRFML, in partnership with the ACLU of Pennsylvania, alleging a pattern of stops and frisks without legal justification and of systemic racial bias in […]
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KRMFL has filed a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of the family of Khynesha Grant, who died from the effects of a dangerous–but treatable–brain tumor while incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution-Cambridge Springs in northwestern Pennsylvania. Over the course of several weeks in late 2018, Ms. Grant exhibited symptoms indicative of a serious brain disorder
KRMFL is counsel to two groups of plaintiffs who have sued the City of Philadelphia for its unprecedented aggressive response to protesters marching in support of police reform in the wake of the May 25, 2020, murder of George Floyd. Between May 25 and May 30 there were daily protests in Philadelphia and across the
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As reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer, a new civil rights complaint filed in federal court today alleges that a group of Philadelphia Police Department detectives caused the wrongful prosecution and conviction of John Miller for a murder that he did not commit. As a result, Mr. Miller spent more than 22 years in prison. Remarkably, the only
KRMFL, along with Arnold & Porter, the American Immigration Council, and the National Immigrant Justice Center, filed a lawsuit in September 2019 on behalf of five parents and their children who were directly impacted by the Trump administration’s family separation policy- a policy that senior government officials have confirmed was designed to deter migrants from
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As outlined in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Cynthia Alvarado was released from prison after her original life sentence for felony murder was overturned by a federal court. Ms. Alvarado had been convicted for murder even though she did not shoot the decedent nor did she commit the robbery that led to the decedent’s death. In 2008,
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KRMFL, alongside Arnold & Porter and the ACLU of Pennsylvania, filed today on behalf of the Pennsylvania Prison Society and five detained individuals an emergency request to the state Supreme Court to exercise its “King’s Bench” power in order to curb the spread of COVID-19 among people in county jails. The request asks the Supreme
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As reported in local media, KRMFL has initiated a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of Nakila Viney, whose husband, Eric Viney, died after he suffered a serious illness while detained at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility. As alleged in the suit, medical providers in the prison were aware of Mr. Viney’s serious medical condition,
As reported in local media, KRMFL filed a wrongful death civil rights suit against Bucks County, PrimeCare Medical, Inc., and their employees on behalf of the family of Charles Freitag, Sr. In August 2018, a prisoner found Freitag on the floor kneeling while slumped over his bed and notified correctional officers who determined that the
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KRMFL, along with co-counsel from Arnold & Porter, American Immigration Council, and National Immigrant Justice Center has filed a lawsuit under the Federal Tort Claims Act on behalf of five asylum-seeking families. Under the FTCA, individuals may sue the United States for injuries resulting from unlawful conduct of federal officers. The five families who have brought the
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