The Firm has successfully represented tens of thousands of clients in police abuse cases against the New York City Police Department and other police departments throughout the tristate area. Cases include false arrest, unlawful strip search, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, excessive force, and wrongful death. Our many police misconduct cases include:

• In Tyson v. City of New York, the Firm represents a class of 62,000 arrestees challenging the constitutionality of pre-arraignment strip-searches, securing a $50 million settlement, believed to be the largest civil rights recovery in an action against New York City.

• In Banks v. City of New York, a wrongful death case where a NYPD officer threw a radio at the head of an unarmed man on a bicycle and killed him, the Firm settled police misconduct claims with the City of New York for $1.1 million, then secured a jury verdict against the officer. The Firm also won a landmark legal victory, winning the first ever judgment in the Second Circuit for "loss of life" damages in a civil rights case.

• In another police misconduct case for false arrest and excessive force, Morales v. City of New York, the Firm won a $3 million jury verdict (later reduced by the trial court).

• In Standt v. City of New York, a false arrest and excessive force case, the Firm won a unique victory for foreign citizens detained by the police, winning the first ever damages claim in the United States for violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.

• In Rowley v. City of New York, the Firm represents four individuals who were physically assaulted, falsely detained, arrested, and imprisoned by a group of plainclothes undercover police officers from the New York City Street Crimes Unit.