March 2019 E-Newsletter
Civil Rights and Personal Injury and General Practice Law Firm, Dedicated to Social Justice
The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington is a well-respected litigation firm with an office in Hempstead, Long Island. Our focus is primarily in the area of civil rights, voting rights, employment discrimination, police misconduct, personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death and criminal law. However, the Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington is a full- service law firm handling matters in numerous areas of law and providing a wide range of services from contract formation to litigation and trial practice.
RECENT VERDICTS AND SETTLEMENTS
$8.43 million - Excessive force, false imprisonment, unlawful entry, trespass and punitive damages by police officers who tased a man suffering from bipolar depression
$7.75 million- Civil Rights and wrongful death action brought by the family of deceased
$4.7 million- Repeated verbal and physical assaults on Yemeni-American employee, while supervisor failed to protect employee and discipline the assailant
$1.277 million- Race based attack and serious injury by violent acts against Plaintiffs, who were lured to an isolated warehouse
$2.8 million- Wrongful death, products liability case involving a tow motor accident at a sewage treatment plant
AT THE FIRM
Hempstead School Superintendent Dr. Shimon Waronker, One Year After Being Summarily Suspended, Still Is Without A Hearing or A Hearing Officer
In Seven-And-A-Half Months, Hempstead School Board Has Spent Over $800,000 On Just One Law Firm, But Still Fails to Have A Contract with Its Teachers
On January 9, 2019, Dr. Shimon Waronker, who was suspended last year from his job as Hempstead School superintendent and still has not had a hearing on the bogus charges brought against him by the school board and its attorney, addressed the clear abuses made by the Hempstead School Board during a press conference at the Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington.
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Female Secretary to Hempstead Sanitary District No. 7, Along with Two Men Who Supported Her, File Complaints of Unlawful Discrimination Based on Sex and Gender, Sexual Harassment, Hostile Work Environment, and Retaliatory Employment Practices
After Months of Abuse and Mistreatment, Including Sexual Harassment, Two Fired Male Employees Back Up Woman Secretary Who Was Victimized by Bosses and Board Members of Hempstead Garbage District
Employees Say, “It Is Time to Take the Garbage Out”
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Village of Garden City Ordered to Pay $5.3 Million
On November 27, 2018, a federal judge ruled that the Village of Garden City must pay $5.3 million in attorney’s fees and other costs related to a housing discrimination lawsuit which the village lost both at the federal level an upon appeal.
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IN THE NEWS
Lawsuit Against Oceanside Sanitation District No. 7 Board of Commissioners Alleges Sexual Harassment
February 28, 2019 | Long Island Herald
Sanitation Employees File Suit Claiming Sex Harassment, Wrongful Termination
February 19, 2019 | News 12
Concerns Grow Over Bills To Overhaul State Criminal Justice System
February 12, 2019 | News 12
Hempstead School Superintendent Saga Continues
February 11, 2019 | Long Island Press
One-Year ‘Nightmare’
January 10, 2019 | Newsday
Legal Battle Continues For School Superintendent In Hempstead, Long Island
January 9, 2019 | Eyewitness News
War Of Words Heats Up Between Ousted Superintendent Waronker And Hempstead School District
January 9, 2019 | CBS 2 News
Hempstead Schools Chief Says ‘Nightmare’ Must End
January 9, 2019 | Newsday.com
Legal Battle continues Between Hempstead School Board and District Superintendent
January 9, 219 | FiOS1 News
One Year Later: Hempstead Still Deadlocked on Schools Chief
January 8, 2019 | Newsday.com
Garden City Ordered to Pay Bias Case Costs
December 7, 2018 | Newsday
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