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Clinic Wins Half Million Dollar Settlement for Police Raid of Stateway Basketball Tournament
December 20, 2003

The City of Chicago and the Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic of the University of Chicago Law School have reached a preliminary agreement to settle a major federal civil rights law suit, Williams v. Brown, brought by the Mandel Clinic against the Chicago Police Department.

U. of C. lawyers win settlement for homeless man
December 10, 2003

The City of Chicago last week awarded a $45,000 settlement to a homeless man who was allegedly knocked unconscious and falsely imprisoned by a police officer in 2001 outside the Stateway Gardens public housing complex, centered at 35th and State Streets.

Law students defend brutality victim
December 5, 2003

In September 2001, Anthony Boatwright was visiting a friend in Stateway Gardens when several unmarked police cars raided the outdoor lobby, a suspected drug-dealing location.

Mandel Clinic Wins Settlement in Police Brutality Case
December 4, 2003

Just two days after an African-American man died following a police beating with nightsticks in Cincinnati, the Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic of the University of Chicago Law School won a $45,000 settlement in a federal civil rights police brutality case on behalf...

Clinic wins civil rights settlement after freeing wrongfully accused man
October 1, 2003

In July 2003, the Civil Rights Police Accountability Project and the Criminal Justice Project of the Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic won a significant settlement in a federal civil rights case on the behalf of Nevles Traylor, a forty-four year old African American man...

Lawsuit over police search after game to go to trial
July 4, 2003

A federal judge has refused to throw out a lawsuit alleging Chicago police illegally searched 250 to 300 adults and children who attended a South Side basketball tournament two years ago in an attempt to head off a gang shooting.

Law clinic wins settlement protecting free speech rights of human rights worker
October 25, 2002

On October 25, 2002, the City of Chicago reached a settlement with Kenya Richmond, a human rights worker who brought a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and six Chicago police officers last spring. Richmond is represented by the Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic of the University of...

Stay denied on witness rights; no pressure yet to enforce order
September 11, 2002

One day after a federal judge ruled that Chicago police and Cook County prosecutors routinely violated the rights of witnesses, he refused on Tuesday to issue a stay of his order while the city and county...

Police blasted on witness rights; Chicago cops, county prosecutors handle them like suspects, court says
September 10, 2002

A federal judge on Monday ruled that Chicago police and Cook County prosecutors have routinely violated the rights of witnesses by denying them access to lawyers while holding them for long hours in small,...

Latino man sues sergeant for police brutality
August 1, 2002

On August 1, 2002 the Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic of the University of Chicago Law School filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of a young Latino man against a Chicago police sergeant and the City of Chicago.