OTMLAW Staff

OTMLAW files employment discrimination suit against the MTA on behalf Muslim client – The Justice Department sued the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and New York City Transit yesterday, charging them with discriminating against Muslim and Sikh employees who wear turbans and head scarves for religious reasons. Read it here.

OTMLAW settles a $3 Million wrongful death lawsuit against the NYPD. Almost five years after Amadou Diallo, an unarmed immigrant from West Africa, died in a hail of 41 police bullets in the Bronx, his family agreed yesterday to a $3 million settlement of its civil lawsuit against New York City. Read it here.

Mr. Mohammedi was referred in the NY Law Journal by the Deputy Mayor Carol Robles Roman as Lawyer and leader offering important services to New York community. Read it here.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced 11 new appointments to the New York City Commission on Human Rights. Joining the Commission are Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts III, Matt Foreman, Dr. Edison O. Jackson, Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, Grace Lyu-Volckhausen, William Malpica, Omar T. Mohammedi, Bryan Pu-Folkes, Lisa Quiroz, Jenny Rivera and Susan R. Scheer. They

Omar Mohammedi, Esq. quoted on acquittal of officers charged with murder of Amadou Diallo. A demonstration at the state courthouse in Brooklyn, New York has drawn several hundred protesters chanting against police brutality. Most of the protesters are students. The demonstration was called in the wake of several high-profile cases in New York City involving

The Justice Department has agreed to meet with the parents of slain African immigrant Amadou Diallo to hear their grievances about the murder trial being moved to Albany from the Bronx. Read it here.