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- Home
- What happened to you?
- When does your deadline run?
- Tell us what happened
- How to reach us
- Usher Law Group, P.C.
- What we do for a person the police wronged
- What we are seeing, and what to do about it
- What changed, and when
The law
- The law behind the case
- What Section 1983 is
- Under color of law
- Qualified immunity
- Suing the city: Monell
- The New York City law of 2021
- State-law claims
- Damages and fees
- The criminal case and the civil case
- The CCRB and a lawsuit
- Officer disciplinary records
Recovery
Every kind of abuse
- False arrest
- Excessive force
- Malicious prosecution
- Fabricated evidence
- Unlawful search
- Stop and frisk
- Strip search
- Retaliatory arrest
- Failure to intervene
- Jail and prison abuse
- Denial of medical care
- Death in custody
- Wrongful conviction
- ICE and federal officers
- Home raids and wrong-house entries
- Car and phone searches
- Tasers, chokeholds and restraints
- Police shootings
- Police pursuits
- Police dog bites
- Sexual misconduct by officers
- Mental health crisis calls
- Protest policing
- The right to record police
- Racial profiling
- Cover charges
- Prosecutorial misconduct
- Coerced confessions
- Property seizure and forfeiture
- Child removal by ACS
- Government retaliation for speech
- Public employee retaliation
- Code enforcement and licensing abuse
- School officials and students
- Immigration detainers in local jails
- Solitary confinement
- Suicide and self-harm in custody
- Disability discrimination by police
- Supervisors who let it happen
- Failure to protect
Deadlines
- How long you have, by agency and by claim
- The 90-day notice of claim
- New York
- New Jersey
- Florida
- Pennsylvania
Your case
- How a case works
- What to do in the first week
- Evidence and body cameras
- Filing in federal court
- Discovery and depositions
- Settlement and trial
- Immigration status and a police abuse case
Stories
- What happened to them: twelve public cases
- Eric Garner
- Kalief Browder
- Layleen Polanco
- Xavier Ingram
- Walter Wallace Jr.
- Anthony Wright
- Corey Jones
- Dontrell Stephens
- Jim Rogers
- Darren Rainey
- The Suffolk County detainer class
- The 2020 protests in New York
The blog
- Stopped by the NYPD: what to do, what to say, and what to write down
- What is a false arrest case worth? The honest answer
- Zorn v. Linton, explained: what "beyond debate" means for your case
- The 90-day mistake
- Can I sue ICE?
- How to get the body camera footage
- What $117 million tells you, and what it does not
- Someone you love is at Rikers: what families should know
- The Florida cap veto: what stays the same, and what the cap never touched
- Charges dismissed. Now what?