POSTS (don’t use) – 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.

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Music from PATRIOT was performed at the glorious Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, in a program of Gershwin, Bernstein, Sondheim, and Rodgers & Hammerstein. L’Orchestre EDF performed before an audience of 1,000 under the direction of Michaël Cousteau, and feauturing young French star Marie Oppert. What a night!

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

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 for 17 years of wrongful imprisonment.

Settlement in Bronx Court Delay Case

PATRIOT was workshopped at Theater Resources Unlimited. Once more, great feedback from an excellent panel, including Pat Addiss, Cheryl Davis, Peter Filichia, Skip Kennon, and Jim Morgan. Thank you to the brilliant Jackie Schiffer!

#MeToo Finally Arrives in New York State Government

#HimToo Case Filed with New York City Commission

PATRIOT was named a Semifinalist in the 2018 Eugene O’Neill National Music Theater Conference.

The social impact media company NationSwell sponsored a reading of PATRIOT at the home of Mike and Sukey Novogratz, followed by a panel discussion on civil rights with Brennan Center lawyer Faiza Patel, Edward Snowden lawyer Ben Wizner, and former CIA lawyer Robert Eatinger. A great cast included Kalyn Schnabel, Matt Leisy, Jon Reinhold, Zachary Prince, Keith Herron, Gina Milo, and Jonas Barranca. Exciting evening for the show!

More here.

ECBA Settles Disability Wrongful Death Case for $2.25 Million

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

PATRIOT was workshopped at Theater Resources Unlimited. Great feedback from an excellent panel.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The leading newspaper in southern Germany, the Suddeutsche Zeitung, gave PATRIOT (then called Believe Me) a rave review: “Full of irony and wit. . . extremely contemporary. . . in the style of the Broadway smash The Book of Mormon.” Wow!

The musical PATRIOT (then called Believe Me) won the first-ever MUT International Music Theatre Competition in Munich, Germany. Six finalists from around the world presented before a live audience and distinguished international jury at the Akademietheater. Big day for PATRIOT!

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

PATRIOT (then called Believe Me) was selected as one of six finalists for the MUT International Music Theatre Competition, organized by the historic Gartnerplatztheater in Munich, Germany.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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

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.

ECBA filed a disability abuse suit on behalf of the son of New York Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg, himself a leading advocate for people with disabilities. The suit alleges abuse at a New York group home for the disabled.

https://www.ecbalaw.com/ecba-and-nsb-win-2-4-million-verdict-in-nj-wrongful-deathpolice-shooting-case/

https://www.ecbalaw.com/ecba-and-city-settle-case-on-behalf-of-transgender-plaintiff-sexually-assaulted-by-prison-employees/