New Haven, Connecticut civil rights lawyers.

The Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut today announced an agreement with the City of Meriden, Connecticut to resolve allegations that the city violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) by denying the application of the Omar Islamic Center to establish a mosq... More...    $0 (11-06-2020 - CT)

New Haven, CT - Wethersfield Man Sentenced to Prison Term for Involvement in Multiple Swatting Incidents

MATTHEW TOLLIS, 22, of Wethersfield, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for participating in a series of “swatting” incidents that occurred in Connecticut and oth... More...    $0 (10-06-2015 - CT)

A jury found that the defendant, the
Hartford Roman Catholic Diocesan Corporation, acted
negligently and recklessly when it assigned Father Ivan
Ferguson, an alcoholic whose admitted acts of child
molestation were understood to be linked to his drinking,
to serve as the director of Saint Mary’s Elementary
School in Derby (Saint Mary’s School), where he sexually
abus... More...    $0 (06-27-2015 - CT)

New Have, CT - Matthew Tollis, 22, of Wethersfield, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to participating in a series of “swatting� incidents that occurred in Connecticut and other states in 2014.

“Swattingâ€� is the making of a hoax call to any emergency service to elicit an emergency response based on the false report of an ongoing critical incident. Incidents typicall... More...    $0 (06-23-2015 - CT)

In his 2008 application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the United Nations Convention Against Torture (CAT), Muhammad Hanif claimed that he had left Pakistan due to political persecution he had suffered at the hands of police as a result of his membership in an out-of-power political party, Jamaat-e-Islami ("JI"). In the hearing that followed, he told a different story, portra... More...    $0 (07-22-2013 - CT)

The defendant, Vernon Stancuna, appeals from certain postjudgment orders entered by the trial court in this dissolution action. Specifically, the defendant claims that the court abused its discretion by (1) permitting the plaintiff, Liubov Stancuna, to travel with the parties’ minor children outside of the United States without prior notice to the defendant and (2) requiring that the defendant p... More...    $0 (05-08-2012 - CT)

The issues presented by these appeals and cross appeals center on the scope of an implied easement located on a lawn that lies between a beachfront development and Long Island Sound (sound) in the town of Branford. The defendants1 appeal from the judgments rendered by the trial court concluding that the implied easement over the lawn in favor of the defendants conferred only a right-of-way to acce... More...    $0 (09-27-2011 - CT)

The dispositive issue on appeal is whether the defendants, the board of education of the city of New Haven (city) and certain public school officials in the city,1 are immune from liability for injuries that the plaintiff, Jamell Woods Cotto, sustained when he slipped on a wet bathroom floor at the Roberto Clemente School (school), one of the city’s public schools, while working as a director of... More...    $0 (12-15-2009 - CT)

14 In this case — a dispute about how to count to three — the plaintiffs-
15 appellants are Medicare beneficiaries who appeal from a grant of summary
16 judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
17 (Hall, J.). Each of them spent at least three days in the hospital but was
18 discharged less than three days after having been formally admitted, ... More...    $0 (01-16-2009 - CT)

The plaintiff, United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 919, AFL-CIO, appeals1 from the judgment of the trial court denying its request for injunctive relief. The plaintiff sought to enjoin the defendants, Crystal Mall Associates, L.P., and its management company (defendant),2 from prohibiting its entry into the common areas of the Crystal Mall (mall), a privately owned shopping m... More...    $0 (07-26-2004 - CT)

The plaintiff, John Ancheff,2 appeals3 from the judgment of the trial co... More...    $0 (07-09-2002 - CT)

This is a products liability action arising out of a military helicopter collision that occurred in Australia on June 12, 1996. The primary issue in this interlocutory appeal1 is whether the trial court abused its discretion in denying the defendants’ motions to dismiss on the ground of forum non conveniens. We conclude that the doctrine of forum non conveniens requires that the action... More...    $0 (10-30-2001 - CT)