ENEWSLETTER: June 2015
Civil Rights and Personal Injury and General Practice Law Firm, Dedicated to Social Justice
The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington is a well-respected litigation firm with an office in Hempstead, Long Island. Our focus is primarily in the area of civil rights, voting rights, employment discrimination, police misconduct, personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death and criminal law. However, the Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington is a full- service law firm handling matters in numerous areas of law and providing a wide range of services from contract formation to litigation and trial practice.
RECENT VERDICTS AND SETTLEMENTS
$7.75 million- Civil Rights and wrongful death action brought by the family of deceased
$4.7 million- Repeated verbal and physical assaults on Yemeni-American employee, while supervisor failed to protect employee and discipline the assailant
$1.277 million- Race based attack and serious injury by violent acts against Plaintiffs, who were lured to an isolated warehouse
$2.8 million- Wrongful death, products liability case involving a tow motor accident at a sewage treatment plant
RECENT CASES
The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington Welcomes Class of 2015
Summer Associates
This year, The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington has selected Ms. Nyoki Mckeith and Ms. Brianna Vaughn as its Summer Associates. Each of them comes to the firm with a wonderful and interesting background. They both have an interest in and are committed to civil rights work and seek to use their law degrees to follow the tradition of civil rights lawyers in being civil engineers for the public good.
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Division of Human Rights Finds Probable Cause Against Nassau County Sheriff's Department on the Basis of Discrimination Against Female African-American Nassau County Correction Officer
The New York State Division of Human Rights recently found probable cause against the Nassau County Sheriff's Department on the basis of discrimination against Mary Williams, a client of The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington. Ms. Williams, an officer with the Nassau County Department of Corrections for fifteen years, has charged the department with unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment based on race and sex in violation of the Human Rights Law.
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Court Denies Separation of Case Dealing with Systematic Problems at Rikers Island
U.S. District Court Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York recently denied an attempt made by the City of New York to separate the case dealing with systematic problems at Rikers Island Correctional Facility. Mr. Jose Bautista, a client of The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington, was left scarred for life after treatment at Rikers Island.
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Court Allows Excessive Force and False Imprisonment Case to Proceed Against Village of Hempstead Police
The United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, recently denied a motion for summary judgment in favor of the Plaintiff, Shuay'b Greenaway, an African-American male diagnosed with a mental illness, who is alleging false imprisonment and excessive force after being shocked with a stun gun multiple times by Nassau County police officers.
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IN THE NEWS
Finding supports officer in Nassau jail bias case
June 7, 2015 | Newsday
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