Judge to rule on stop-and-frisk practices of NYPD

Tempers flared Friday as federal Judge Shira Scheindlin demanded that the New York City Law Department produce two officers for identification by a black plaintiff who claims he was stopped, questioned and frisked on the steps of his home without ...

Barclays US District Judge Shira Scheindlin in Manhattan ruled that former chief executives John Varley, Bob Diamond and other defendants did not mislead Barclays "The notion that the market would fail to digest three years of non-fraudulent ...

After listening to two months of testimony on the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk practices, Judge Shira A. Scheindlin left little doubt about her views of their effectiveness in helping detect criminal behavior. A lot of people are ...

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in Manhattan told a lawyer representing the city that she was troubled by the high percentage of mistaken suspicions leading to stop-n-frisk in New York. The judge observed, What troubles me is the ...

, Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the Southern District of New York granted auditor Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA's (DTTC) motion to dismiss a shareholder class action, finding that plaintiffs failed to sufficiently allege scienter or any misstatements ...

The judge overseeing a challenge to NYPD stop-and-frisk tactics said she was "intrigued" by the idea of requiring the police to use body cameras that would record street stops as the 10-week trial in federal court in Manhattan came to an end Monday.

The federal judge who will rule in a class-action lawsuit accusing New York City police of racial profiling in their "stop and frisk" crime-fighting tactic expressed interest in having police officers wear cameras as the trial concluded on Monday.

A judge in New York expressed concern over the number of stops conducted by city police that fail to result in arrests, summonses or the seizure of illegal weapons. U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in Manhattan today asked a lawyer for the city ...

The Issue: A court ruling overturning Judge Nicholas Garaufis discrimination findings against the FDNY. The fire-department exam cannot discriminate (All Smoke, No Fire, Editorial, May 15). The questions and the drills on the written portion and the ...