PHILADELPHIA – An Arizona weapons advocacy group and two Pennsylvania men have settled civil rights litigation brought under the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution against The City of Philadelphia and its police commissioner for $10,000, and secured an injunction which declared the City’s disputed cutting weapons possession policy as unenforceable.
PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia will pay $9.25 million to settle claims in four lawsuits which alleged the Philadelphia Police Department used excessive force on more than 300 plaintiffs, during peaceful demonstrations on systemic racism and police brutality at 52nd Street and the Vine Street Expressway in 2020.
PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia has filed for summary judgment in a class action lawsuit, over claims that its vehicle towing relocation program both fails to abide by due process and provide adequate notice or fair procedures for owners to locate and recover their vehicles after they have been moved.
PHILADELPHIA – A street preacher locally known as “Philly Jesus”, who filed a wrongful prosecution case against the City of Philadelphia and local police officers after being arrested when he was evangelizing in a public park just before Christmas in 2019, has appealed the suit’s recent dismissal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
PHILADELPHIA – A non-party towing company is now the target of sanctions from class action attorneys taking on the City of Philadelphia, over claims that its vehicle towing relocation program both fails to abide by due process and provide adequate notice or fair procedures for owners to locate and recover their vehicles after they have been moved.