news-law – Ilann Maazel

ECBA has joined as plaintiffs’ counsel in the Ohio State University sex abuse case, representing dozens of survivors of sexual abuse by OSU doctor Richard Strauss. While employed by Ohio State, Dr. Strauss is believed to have abused hundreds and even thousands of Ohio State students, over a period of decades. More here and here.

Family Brutalized by U.S. Marshals in Justice Sotomayor Houses Files Federal Lawsuit

More here.

Historic Settlement in Pennsylvania

ECBA has settled the 2016 Pennsylvania recount case brought by presidential candidate Jill Stein and Pennsylvania voters. The lawsuit challenged Pennsylvania’s use of paperless voting systems, as well as its byzantine, anti-voter recount procedures. More here.

Ilann speaks at 2018 PILnet Global Forum in Berlin

Ilann spoke at the 2018 PILnet Global Forum in Berlin. The Global Forum is an annual international gathering of leading public interest lawyers throughout the world.

Ilann Maazel named a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America

Ilann M. Maazel was named a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. More information about LCA can be found here.

Ilann a “Super Lawyer” for the 7th Straight Year

Ilann was named a “Super Lawyer” for a seventh straight year. This year, ten other lawyers at ECBA were also named Super Lawyers.

ECBA Brings Wrongful Conviction Case for Vernon Horn

ECBA brings wrongful conviction case for Vernon Horn for 17 years of wrongful imprisonment.

Settlement in Bronx Court Delay Case

#MeToo Finally Arrives in New York State Government

#HimToo Case Filed with New York City Commission

16 Years After First ECBA Class Action, Mayor and City Council Agree to Close Rikers Island

More here.

ECBA Settles Disability Wrongful Death Case for $2.25 Million

Ilann Appears on Inside City Hall with Errol Louis

Ilann appeared on Inside City Hall with Linda Levy, CEO of the Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union. ECBA represents the credit union in its case challenging President Trump’s appointment of Michael Mulvaney as Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

“[The CFPB] is being run by someone who should not be there, someone who is there illegally,” Mr. Maazel told NY1’s Errol Louis. “We’re in a state of absolute regulatory chaos.

Watch the interview here. Read more about the lawsuit here and here.

Credit Union Sues Donald Trump to Save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Everytown for Gun Safety Helps Beat Back Attack on Gun Control in New York State

Ilann a “Super Lawyer” for the 6th Straight Year

Ilann was named a “Super Lawyer” for a sixth straight year. This year, ten other lawyers at ECBA were also named Super Lawyers.

Jewish Woman Settles Discrimination Lawsuit With Lucille Roberts

Yosefa Wood-Isenberg settled her religious discrimination case with Lucille Roberts. In addition to a financial payment, the settlement requires Lucille Roberts to allow Yosefa and other Jewish women to wear modest, fitted skirts at all Lucille Roberts health clubs.

ECBA Joins Emoluments Case Against Donald Trump

Ilann has joined the fight to stop Donald Trump from turning the United States presidency into a profit making venture for Trump and his business. The case is in federal court in Manhattan.

Federal Court Affirms “Bronx Zoo” Case

https://www.ecbalaw.com/federal-court-rejects-motion-dismiss-bronx-zoo-group-home-lawsuit/

ECBA Settles Badger Suit For Over $12 Million

After years of litigation, ECBA reached a final settlement in the tragic case of the Stamford Christmas fire. Settlements in the case totaled over $12 million.

Ilann Speaks at Annual EVN Conference

Ilann was invited to speak at the Election Verification Network Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.

NY State Pays $3 Million to Disabled Boy Abused at Group Home

https://www.ecbalaw.com/ny-state-pays-3-million-family-disabled-boy-abused-group-home/

ECBA Leads Historic Recount Litigation

In the first ever legal effort to challenge election results in multiple jurisdictions for a Presidential contest in the United States, ECBA is representing Jill Stein and her campaign in election integrity efforts and attempts to obtain recounts in three states: Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.

Class Action Leads to End of Tampon Tax in New York

https://www.ecbalaw.com/class-action-leads-end-tampon-tax-new-york-state/

Ilann Appears on the Brian Lehrer Show

Ilann appeared on the Brian Lehrer Show to discuss a groundbreaking lawsuit to end court delay in Bronx Criminal Court.

ECBA Files Religious Discrimination Lawsuit Against Lucille Roberts

https://www.ecbalaw.com/ecba-files-religious-discrimination-lawsuit-against-lucille-roberts/

Sweeping Settlement in Pine Bush anti-Semitic Bullying Case

ECBA, along with co-counsel Michael Meth and Public Justice, has settled the Pine Bush anti-Semitic bullying case. The comprehensive settlement requires significant reform to policies, training, curriculum, discipline, and tracking of anti-Semitic incidents, all under the oversight of the U.S. Department of Education and the federal court.

L’Express Profiles Woody Allen, Paul Auster, Diane von Furstenberg, and Ilann

In its publication “Fabuleuse New York,” French magazine L’Express profiled prominent New Yorkers, including Woody Allen, Paul Auster, Diane von Furstenberg, and Ilann.

$2.25 Million Settlement for Abuse of Disabled Adult in a New York State Facility

The family of K.C., a 22-year-old severely disabled man, settled a federal lawsuit in Albany against staff at the O.D. Heck Developmental Center, a New York State facility for the disabled. The lawsuit centered on the physical and verbal abuse K.C. suffered at the hands of the staff members.

New York City and Officer Found Liable in Fatal ’05 Shooting of Leonel Disla

After less than an hour of deliberations, a unanimous jury in Bronx Supreme Court found New York City and an NYPD Sergeant liable for the shooting death of 19-yr old Leonel Disla on October 30, 2005.

Ilann Appears in Oscar-Winning Documentary, Citizenfour

On August 31, 2011, in Seattle, Washington, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard argument in Shubert v. Obama, a case brought by ECBA on behalf of hundreds of thousands of Americans whose telephone and e-mail communications were subject to warrantless surveillance by the National Security Agency as part of a massive secret dragnet program. Ilann’s argument was later featured in the Oscar-Winning Documentary, Citizenfour.

Ilann named the national civil rights blogger for law.com

Ilann has become the national civil rights blogger for www.law.com. Law.com is the home website for American Legal Media, one of the largest legal media companies in the United States, and publisher of The American Lawyer and The National Law Journal

Anti-Semitic Bullying Case in Pine Bush Featured in The New York Times

This morning, the New York Times front page featured T.E. v. Pine Bush Central School District, a civil rights lawsuit brought by five Jewish students arising from years of pervasive anti-Semitic harassment and bullying in Pine Bush schools. The bullying included anti-Semitic slurs, Holocaust jokes, physical assaults, coin throwing, white power chants, Hitler salutes, and anti-Semitic graffiti on textbooks, lockers, walls, desks, and a classroom poster of President Obama.

New York State will pay $5 million to settle two wrongful death lawsuits brought by Michael and Lisa Carey, whose son Jonathan died in 2007 while living in a State facility for the disabled. Jonathan, an autistic 13-year-old, was asphyxiated and killed by a State employee while on a community outing. Two State employees have been criminally convicted as a result of Jonathan’s death.