ENEWSLETTER: October 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
Frederick K. Brewington to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Long Island Business News' Leadership in Law Awards Ceremony
On November 19, Frederick K. Brewington of The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award during Long Island Business News' Leadership in Law Awards ceremony. The event will take place that night at 6:30 p.m. at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury.
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Four Former Nassau County Correction Officers
and Deputy Sheriffs File Suit Against Nassau County
and the Sheriff for Disability Discrimination and
Refusal to Give Them Their Guns
Alexandros Perros, Thomas Delle, Nicholas Lenoci, and Victor Patalano, all former members of the Nassau County Sheriff's Department, have filed suit in Federal Court for themselves and as a class on behalf of all persons similarly situated and/or former Sheriff’s Department personnel who were denied proper "Recommendation For Consideration Of Application For Pistol License For Retiring Peace [Police] Officer" forms and/or "Good Guy Letters" following retirement, due to injury and/or disability.
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Federal Court Denies City's Motion for Summary Judgment and Will Allow Paraplegic Shooting Victim to Go to Trial
James Crockett, a client of Frederick K. Brewington, will be allowed to testify after a federal court denied the City of New York's motion for summary judgment. Mr. Crockett has filed a suit against the City of New York and a group of New York City police officers, one of whom shot Mr. Crockett, leaving him unable to walk.
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IN THE NEWS
Former Cops Sue Over 'Good Guy' Gun Denials
September 30, 2015 | Courthouse News Service
Retired officers denied gun permits
September 30, 2015 | Newsday
3 retired NY correction officers, retired deputy sheriff sue over gun permit denial
September 30, 2015 | CorrectionsOne.com
3 retired Nassau correction officers, retired deputy sheriff sue over gun permit denial
September 29, 2015 | Newsday.com
Ex-officers sue Nassau Sheriff’s Dept.
September 29, 2015 | FiOS1
Ex-workers sue Nassau Sheriff's Dept. over gun permits
September 29, 2015 | News12
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