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The Center for Constitutional Rights is proud to announce Senior Staff Attorney Darius Charney will present information on our class action lawsuit Floyd v. City of New York at an event organized by the American Constitution Society.
CCR and other presenting organizations exist at the front lines of cutting-edge public interest and constitutional litigation. The lawyers litigating these groundbreaking cases will speak about how they and their organizations or firms got there, where the case is going, what the impact will be and what it is like to be on the front lines.
Who: Darius Charney, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights
What: Presentation on Floyd v. City of New York lawsuit
Where: Milberg LLP, One Pennsylvania Plaza, 50th Floor, NY
When: Tuesday, December 11th at 6:30 p.m.
How: Register online here. This event is free and open to the public.
The cases to be discussed are listed below.
Floyd v. City of New York: A class action challenging the constitutionality of the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy
• Darius Charney, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights
Sykes v. Mel Harris: A class action using civil RICO to challenge abusive debt collection practices
• Carolyn E. Coffey, Supervising Attorney, Consumer Rights Project, MFY Legal Services, Inc.
• Susan Shin, Staff Attorney, NEDAP
Parisi v. Goldman Sachs: Second Circuit appeal of decision in employment discrimination class action invalidating an arbitration agreement where enforcement of the agreement would prohibit the pattern-or-practice method of proof
• Cyrus E. Dugger, Attorney, Outten & Golden LLP
Windsor v. United States: A successful challenge of the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage ACT (DOMA)
• Joshua D. Kaye, Associate, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
• Davin M. Rosborough, Associate, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
GMO Products Marketing Litigation: Three class actions challenging company's use of “All Natural” to market genetically modified organisms
• Ariana J. Tadler, Partner, Milberg LLP
Moderated by Barry A. Weprin, Partner, Milberg LLP