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They Don’t Want To Know About Questionable, Problematic Testimony

“Each step of the officers’ story defies credibility… flagrant misconduct… evasive and contradictory testimony… questionable, problematic testimony… tailored to overcome constitutional objection… complete fabrication…… patently inc
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Overtime Pay Violation: The Fluctuating Workweek and the Department of Labor’s Coefficient Table

Is your employer paying your overtime under the Department of Labor’s “coefficient table”, but you work 40 hours or more every week? If so, you very likely have an actionable overtime pay violation. As you probably know, non-exempt employees are entitled to overtime pay for all hours
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The Waiting is the Hardest Part- Waiting and Overtime Pay

The Supreme Court handed another victory to big business at the expense of the powerless last week.  The upshot, in the ironically entitled Busk v. Integrity Staffing Solutions, is that employers may now require their employees to work off the clock indefinitely, as long as the labor
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Ferguson Newsflash

The Latest News from Ferguson White liberals tend to recoil from images of rioting like those we’re seeing from Ferguson.  Too messy and violent, out of line with their understanding of civil disobedience.  But the Ferguson rage is a street level, intuitive expression of a legal and p
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The Government Opposes Overtime Wages for Overtime Work

The United States Department of Labor these days loves to send out press releases and emails about their employee-friendly rule making.  But behind the scenes, they’re still selling out to big business.  This is apparent in a recent amicus brief they filed in the United States Supreme
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The Importance of Being an Inside Outsider

A recent alleged scandal has broken involving charges that Judge Barry Kamins, the chief administrator of the New York City Criminal Court and chief of planning and policy for the state courts, was serving as unofficial political consultant to then District Attorney Charles Hynes.  It
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Wrongful Convictions and the Hidden Costs of a Police State

Yesterday the New York City Council held hearings with the six district attorneys from New York City (one for each borough, plus the Special Narcotics Prosecutor).  The hearings related to budgetary considerations and the needs of each office.  Ken Thompson, our new Brooklyn District
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New York’s High Court Gets Real

New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, has issued a series of decisions recently that indicate a real understanding of the way the law works on the ground, for the people most directly impacted by it.  Most important to our practice is the Court’s ruling this week
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Minimum Wage Suit – Fair Pay for Honest Work

The Legal Rationale for Our Community Service Minimum Wage Suit So our minimum wage suit for the innocent forced to perform community service has gotten some play on Fox news, with rather predictable results (“greedy employment lawyers taking advantage, etc etc”). http://f
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Chain Gangs for the Innocent

On Saturday, The Daily News covered our lawsuit being filed today, on behalf of people essentially coerced into working for the City for free as a condition of an “ACD”, or Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal.  We’re very excited about this suit, as it is on be
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