If a pedestrian is critically injured by a cyclist while walking in a park, who is at fault? The pedestrian? The cyclist? Or, perhaps, the city? That's the question raised in a new $3 million dollar lawsuit the Post reports was just filed against the city. Actress Dana Jacks says her Prospect Park collision with cyclist David Sonenberg on June 11 left her "with brain trauma and face and skull fractures that kept her hospitalized for 25 days." She's already filed suit against the biker (and he against her) and now she's turned to the city, blaming her situation on its "negligent, careless and reckless" traffic enforcement in the park. more ›

Police are hunting for a man who sexually assaulted a woman entering her Greenwich Village apartment building last week. The 23-year-old woman was grabbed from behind around 2 a.m. on September 8; the attacker beat and sexually assaulted the victim before fleeing. The suspect was caught on camera walking down the street in a gray suit and open-collared white shirt, and is described by police as a 35-year-old Hispanic man, standing around 5-foot-8 and weighing roughly 180 pounds. Below, you can check out a video of the suspect: more ›

If anybody at the Gathering of the Juggalos had actually listened to Wu-Tang before, they would have seen this coming. Method Man tells TMZ that he's planning to sue somebody over the bloody wound he got when a member of the crowd threw a full beer can at his face, though he didn't specify who. He said, "It's not OK...I don't condone throwing things at the talent while they're performing." Neither does Tila Tequila, even though she was apparently warned she would be a target. more ›

A school safety officer in Brooklyn is awaiting damages from her 2007 suit against the city for making her wear an ID card at work. Velma Craig, 48, was fired from her job at P.S. 235 for refusing to wear the card, and claimed religious discrimination because she believes the fingerprints and computer chips in the card were "the marks of the beast." (THEY ARE!) Acting as her own lawyer, she won the $7.7 million lawsuit when the city couldn't explain how it would be burdened by making an exception to the rules for her. The city is waiting for damages to be awarded before appealing the decision, which is exactly what the devil would do. more ›

A Bronx teen beaten outside of the Jonathan Levin High School of Media and Communications is suing the Department of Education and the city. According to the Daily News, Gustavo Ramos claims security guards closed the school doors on his hands as he tried to run inside to escape a gang fight outside. Then, he says, he was knocked to the ground, hit in the face with a baseball bat and stabbed three times. more ›

A Queens woman is suing a cop for $5 million, claiming he caused her to fall on her stomach while she was six months pregnant and eventually miscarry. Police were called to 21-year-old Felicia Dantzler's house after her fiancé reported a fight with her neighbors on March 21st. Dantzler told the Post, "He swept his foot under my feet and I fell on my stomach and face." Five days later, she delivered a stillborn daughter. more ›

Relatives of Marines killed in an attack in Lebanon in 1983 want federal authorities to give them a Midtown skyscraper owned by a nonprofit organization accused of being a "front for the Iranian government." According to the Post, families of the 241 soldiers killed in the bombing of military barracks want 650 Fifth Avenue to serve as their compensation for the $2.6 billion in damages awarded to them in court three years ago. Federal prosecutors have tried to revoke ownership of the 36-story tower because the Alavi Foundation, which owns the building, has been accused of sending money to Iran despite a trade ban. more ›

With the May 16 trial date approaching, lawyers for the city and attorneys for thousands of 9/11 responders who say they got sick or injured after working at Ground Zero are apparently hurrying to reach a settlement. Though attorneys from both sides declined to comment on negotiations, Judge Alvin Hellerstein told the Times that "[t]here have been intensive discussions going on looking to settlements of individual cases and globally of all cases...The parties have been working very hard...The settlement is complicated." more ›

Five middle school and high school students are suing the Police Department over allegations that cops and school safety officers wrongfully arrested them and used excessive force. The plaintiffs in the class-action case — who range in age from 13 to 15 years old — say that "inadequately trained and poorly supervised police personnel engage in aggressive behavior toward students when no criminal activity is taking place and when there is no threat to health and safety," and often "confront and arrest students over minor disciplinary infractions such as talking back, being late for class or having a cell phone in school." more ›

The city is fighting to keep private the suicide note penned by an NYPD lieutenant who shot himself after ordering the use of a Taser on emotionally disturbed man. Facing a $10 million lawsuit from the family of Iman Morales — who died after being shot with the Taser and falling from a second-story roof ledge — the city is trying to withhold Lt. Michael Pigott's suicide note, which attorneys representing Morales' family say is a necessary part of their case the Post reports. more ›

Ronald Tackman, the prisoner who escaped from a Criminal Court holding cell yesterday and managed to blend in with the court crowds, thanks to his business suit, is still at large. He did manage to head to his mother's Upper East Side home; she told NY1, "He came home and he was all dressed up and I figured that he was discharged from prison. So I didn't say anything and he asked me to change his clothes and that was it." His new attire: Jeans and a black jacket. more ›

Earlier this month word came in that a Manhattan judge had ordered Jay-Z's 40/40 club management to turn over records of all employees in the past three years, for a class-action lawsuit filed by a former waitress. The suit claims the workers never received overtime or minimum wage. Now The NY Post reports that the club's general manager, Desiree Gonzalez, has told (ahem, threatened) some employees who might join in the suit. Allegedly she warned that she would "[bleep] up his tax life" to one, and told another she'd "lock him up" if he failed to sign a release from the suit. more ›