The Law Firm of Omar T. Mohammedi, LLC defeats the Transit Authority’s (TA) Summary Judgment Motion and asserts Ms. Lewis’s civil rights in a prominent employment discrimination case two years following her death. In a resounding victory for Stephanie Lewis Judge Townes, the Eastern District of New York, found that there were overwhelming evidence that […]
The Law Firm of Omar T. Mohammedi, LLC currently represents various not-for-profit defendants in this $8 Trillion Multidistrict Litigation in the Southern District of New York. Read More about the 9/11 Litgation: In re Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001, — F.Supp.2d —, 2010 WL 3783702 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 13, 2010) >In re Terrorist Attacks of
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OTMLAW defeated two motions to dismiss and five summary judgment motions on behalf of the six Imams to establish a major precedent protecting minorities from profiling, warrantless search, illegal detention, and false arrest and imprisonment based on the victims’ religious belief and practices, race and national origin. The precedent asserts the six Imams’ and other
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OTMLAW successfully handled and settled a landmark $3 million case against the New York Police Department (NYPD) for the racial profiling and killing of an unarmed man, Amadou Diallo.The lawsuit was instrumental in initiating reform throughout the NYPD to prevent profiling against minorities in New York City. Diallo Article: “$3 million deal in Police killing
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The Law Firm of Omar T. Mohammedi, LLC successfully represented Osama Al Najjar–a 14-year-old student at a New York City public school. Osama was harassed and taunted by the teachers and staff on account of his first name “Osama.”
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OTMLAW successfully defeated a lawsuit against religious freedom, and preserved the Islamic Center of South Florida’s right to build a mosque in their local community.
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Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Sandra Townes rejected a MTA motion to dismiss the lawsuit Stephanie Lewis filed in 2004. Lewis was transferred off her bus route and eventually fired for not agreeing to put a NYC Transit division logo on her headscarf due to religious reasons. Read it here. The family of a Muslim bus
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In ensuring that Sharia-compliant wills that are also in line with state law, practitioners will likely face certain challenges. This article seeks to identify and address the following challenges: conflicts between U.S. intestacy laws and Islamic inheritance laws; conflicts with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution; and potential public policy
Managing Partner, Omar T. Mohammedi, Esq., authored this article in the ABA Probate & Property Journal Remembrance of death and the afterlife is a cornerstone of the Islamic ethos. Planning for death by ensuring a distribution of one’s estate in accordance with Islamic Shariah law is obligatory upon all Muslims wishing to comply with their
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Managing Partner, Omar T. Mohammedi, Esq., authored this law review article featured in the Michigan State University School of Law Journal of International Law. Algeria emerged from the turbulent 1990s with an eye towards economic expansion and openness toward the world economy. This trend continues to characterize Algeria’s market reforms, demonstrated by ever-increasing market liberalization
International Trade and Investment in Algeria: An Overview, 18 Mich.J.Intl L. 376 (2010) Read More »