The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington

ENEWSLETTER: November 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	AT THE FIRM Dolores Sharpe, Retired African-American Nassau County Police Officer, Files Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Charging Nassau Police with False Arrest, Malicious Prosecution, Racial Discrimination, Verbal and Physical Abuse Retired Officer Dolores Sharpe, who is an African-American woman and a veteran of the United States Air Force and the Nassau County Police Department, was joined by members of several law enforcement and community groups at The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington on November 11 to announce the filing of her federal lawsuit for her wrongful treatment, violations of her constitutional rights, malicious prosecution, false arrest and abuse at the hands of fellow Nassau police officers. Read More » Court Grants Trial for Muslim Woman Kicked off MTA Bus Because She Was Wearing a Burqa A Muslim woman will be allowed to have her lawsuit proceed against the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) in a religious discrimination lawsuit, thanks to a recent ruling from the United States District Court, Eastern District of New York. The Plaintiff, Maria Louis, alleges in her lawsuit that she was unjustly removed from a public bus for wearing a burqa. Read More » Frederick K. Brewington Joins Touro Law as the Howard Glickstein Civil Rights and Public Policy Lecturer on "Turning Civil Wrongs into Civil Rights" On November 3, Frederick K. Brewington spoke at this year's Howard Glickstein Civil Rights and Public Policy Lecture hosted by Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center. The topic of Mr. Brewington's speech was "Turning Civil Wrongs into Civil Rights." Read More » U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Jury Verdict for Victim of Brutality While in Suffolk Jail The United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, upheld a $95,000 jury verdict for Perrim Anderson in a case involving police brutality, and the violation of Mr. Anderson's civil and constitutional rights. The defendants named in the lawsuit included the County of Suffolk, Suffolk County Sheriff's Office, Suffolk County Correctional Facility, and Correction Officers Vincent Aparicio and Maria McAuley. Read More » Federal Court Rules in Favor of Widow in Housing Discrimination Case U.S. District Court Judge Arthur D. Spatt of the Eastern District of New York issued a decision in Defendants’ Motion seeking Summary Judgment, finding that the defendants, including Jay Levy, violated the Fair Housing Act and New York State Human Rights Law by refusing to rent Mrs. Sharon Johnson and her late husband, Ennis Johnson, an apartment because of her husband’s illness. This decision paves the way for the case to be presented to a jury that will hear evidence in this housing discrimination case. Read More » IN THE NEWS Muslim woman sues MTA after being kicked off bus in Jamaica November 13, 2015 \| QNS COP RETIRES, SUES OVER HER ARREST November 12, 2015 \| Newsday Former Nassau police officer files $24M wrongful-arrest suit against cops, county November 11, 2015 \| Newsday Former suburban officer's lawsuit claims false arrest November 11, 2015 \| timesunion Ex-Nassau officer claims false arrest, abuse in lawsuit November 11, 2015 \| News 12 Diverse Long Island November 9, 2015 \| News 12 Man's $95G award upheld November 3, 2015 \| Newsday HIV Positive Status Is the Basis for Housing Discrimination in New York Federal Lawsuit October 31, 2015 \| Legal Broadcast Network Briefs October 2015 \| Networking Magazine
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