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RICHARD CARDINALE IN THE NEWS
Daily News | 12/31/2014
Woman who claims she was forced into gynecological exam at Rikers Island will collect $80K from lawsuit against city
Neshelle Pickett, 26, of Brooklyn, claimed in a lawsuit that she told doctors she didn’t want the gynecological exam, but was threatened with placement in a medical isolation unit alongside inmates with communicable diseases if she refused to comply.
Daily News | 1/27/2013
Watch for yourself: A stop-and-frisk incident that even a city lawyer says appears to be unjustified
A Brooklyn lawyer claims he has video proof of an illegal stop-and-frisk by an NYPD cop — and he's getting no argument from the city.
NYPost | 8/26/2012
Victim $uits: Luck of the drawn-on
They were trying to stop a killer, but the cops who opened fire outside the Empire State Building will probably end up costing taxpayers millions in legal damages, experts said.
Daily News | 1/06/2012
City pays $85G for wrongful "wanted" photo
A Virginia man whose photo was disseminated to the media by the NYPD after he was wrongly identified as a suspect in a string of Chinatown burlaries has pocketed $85,000 from the city to settle his defamation lawsuit.
New York Law Journal | 8/01/2012
City Bid for Immunity for Officers' Grand Jury Appearance Is Denied
A recent U.S. Supreme Court holding that grand jury witnesses are entitled to absolute immunity from a civil rights action will not shield a police officer accused of malicious prosecution where the officer initiated the case by signing a criminal complaint, a federal judge in Brooklyn has held.
New York Daily News | 6/06/2012
Suits by diabetics sock NYPD
A simple injection of insulin would have saved the city millions in lawsuit payouts to diabetic NYPD prisoners, the Daily News has learned. When diabetics are arrested, they must surrender their medications to cops as well as their freedom.
CBS New York | 10/18/2011
Staten Island Man Claims Cops Beat And Sodomized Him During Arrest
A Staten Island man has filed a federal lawsuit claiming seven police officers beat and sexually assaulted him during a drug bust.
New York Times | 10/14/2011
About New York: The Drugs? They Came From the Police
BY JIM DWYER
A police officer testified about how rules were broken so that narcotics officers could make their monthly quotas of arrests.
New York Daily News 09/03/2008
City Feels Big Pinch For Cop's False Arrests
BY JOHN MARZULLI
The city has started shelling out thousands of dollars to settle false arrest lawsuits brought against an indicted undercover detective, the Daily News has learned.
New York Daily News 02/21/2008
3 Sue Over Drug Busts In Troubled Brooklyn South
BY JOHN MARZULLI
Three men whose drug arrests were tossed because of the Brooklyn South narcotics squad scandal have sued the city, charging undercover cops faked evidence, the Daily News has learned.
New York Daily News | 01/08/2010
City Shells Out $35G To Grandmother Busted As Hooker
BY JOHN MARZULLI
The city will pay $35,000 to a Brooklyn grandmother falsely arrested for prostitution. Monica Gonzalez was busted on the bogus charges while walking to Lutheran Medical Center in Sunset Park after suffering an asthma attack in the middle of the night.
New York Daily News | 10/11/2009
Crack Thugs Sue City: Lawyers Settle Cop-Abuse Raps
BY PATRICE O'SHAUGHNESSY
Members of a brazen Brooklyn crack gang raked in more than $500,000 in taxpayer money by repeatedly suing the city for civil rights violations, records show.
New York Law Journal | 07/30/2009
Prosecution's Memos Supporting Dropped Charges Fall Outside the Work-Product Doctrine, Judge Finds (PDF)
BY MARK FASS
New York City must turn over in a civil rights suit a Brooklyn prosecutor’s memorandum outlining the reasons charges were dropped against a woman who was arrested for prostitution, a federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn has ruled.
New York Law Journal | 05/22/2009
Police Order to “Stay Put” Ruled Enough for Fourth Amendment Suit (PDF)
BY DANIEL WISE
A police officer’s command to a suspect to “stay put” while the officer writes out a summons is sufficient to support a constitutional claim for false arrest, a federal judge has ruled.
New York Daily News | 04/25/2009
Animal Rights Activist Sues City Over Arrest
BY JOHN MARZULLI
A Brooklyn animal rights activist arrested after complaining about parking tickets being given to volunteers at an animal adoption fair is suing the city.
New York Daily News | 02/05/2009
NYPD Officer Caught In Drug Scandal Takes Plea, Dishes On Corrupt Cops
BY SCOTT SHIFREL, JOHN MARZULLI and ALISON GENDAR
An NYPD officer snared in a drug scandal took a plea Thursday and started dishing dirt about other corrupt cops, sources said.
New York Times | 11/09/2008
Officers Facing Assault Charges Surrender to Brooklyn D.A.
By ALISON LEIGH COWAN
Officers Richard Kern, Alex Cruz and Andrew Morales surrendered at the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office early Tuesday morning.
New York Daily News | 06/14/2006
City Strokes Brooklyn Massage Parlor Owner
BY JOHN MARZULLI
A Brooklyn Heights massage parlor owner who sued the NYPD after cops raided her business will be running her fingers through some money. The city has agreed to write a check to Michelle Lam, the owner of Spring Thyme - a massage and acupuncture spa on Montague St. in Brooklyn Heights - after she agreed to drop the suit. “All the parties are satisfied,” said Lam’s lawyer, Richard Cardinale...
New York Times | 07/14/2005
City to Settle With Thousands Over Illegal Strip-Searches
By KAREEM FAHIM
The Bloomberg administration sent settlement notices yesterday to tens of thousands of people who were illegally strip-searched in at least six different New York detention centers between 1999 and 2002. It is the second time in five years that the city has settled a lawsuit because of strip-searches. The latest settlement, which was finalized in May, ends a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of some 40,000 people, all of whom were arrested for misdemeanor violations, arraigned, and strip-searched as they entered detention centers, including Rikers Island.
New York Daily News | 07/13/2005
City’s 30M Mea Culpa: Paying for Illegal Jail Strip Searches
BY TRACY CONNOR
The city has agreed to pay as much as $30 million to thousands of New Yorkers who were illegally strip searched after being busted on minor charges, the Daily News has learned.
New York Times | 05/13/2004
Civilian Complaint Review Board Cites Improper Police Strip Searches
By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
An independent city agency has found evidence suggesting that officers may frequently be conducting inappropriate strip searches.
New York Times | 10/30/2003
Suit Accuses Police in Brooklyn Of Strip Searches In Minor Cases
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
Near the warren of cells that smelled of feces and vomit, the woman did not quite believe what was happening. She had been arrested in 2001 in Brooklyn on a minor charge and now, in a room with an open door, a police officer had asked her to strip naked and squat. “She used her finger to examine me internally,” the woman testified at a deposition. That same year, a Haitian man had been arrested for a misdemeanor because of a dispute with a tenant. He also said he had to remove all his clothes, this time in front of laughing officers asking him to bend down.
New York Law Journal | 10/16/2003
Newsbriefs (PDF)
•Class Action Strip Searches May Proceed
New York Daily News | 11/18/2002
Ex-Inmate Fights Back: Writer Joins Lawsuit Over Treatment At Rikers
By MIKE CLAFFEY
Toby Cohen had not committed a crime, but the freelance writer was packed off to Rikers Island one day two years ago in handcuffs and shackles. She was strip-searched and forced to shower in a cold stall, then subjected to a painful gynecological exam. That was followed by five days behind bars.
New York Daily News | 07/25/2002
Rikers Sued Over Forced Gyno Tests
By MIKE CLAFFEY
Five women who were arrested on minor offenses charge they were forced to strip and submit to gynecological exams at Rikers Island. “It's degrading and it's humiliating,” said Richard Cardinale, a lawyer who filed a class-action suit last week in Manhattan Federal Court on behalf of the women.
New York Daily News | 04/29/2002
Feud Heads To Court: S.I. Neighbors Make Federal Case Out Of It
By TRACY CONNOR
It's Staten Island's version of the Hatfields and the McCoys - and it's about to become a federal case. For five years, there's been no fence strong enough to make good neighbors out of housewife Rosa Moscova and Police Officer Martin Foley, who live across from each other on a quiet, leafy street in Dongan Hills.
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