Civil Rights Legal Questions

This is a question you must address with your doctors. They may require a Covid test as a condition of treating you or as a condition of your being in any of their facilities where you are treated for your kidney issues or any other health issues. If it is not an emergency, you would have a right to refuse any test, but the medical professions would also have a right to refuse to treat you. A Covid test does not have any special designation that would make it any different than any other test you have been given for your medical treatment. It is common that anyone admitted to a hospital is presumed to have Covid until they receive a negative test. This may be true for a while. Thus, as far as I know, you could simply tell anyone providing medical care that you do not want a Covid test. However, this may mean that the medical professional may refuse to provide treatment to you, depending on the policy for that particular facility and medical professional. ... Read More

The towing companies are usually glad to give you your personal items.  They usually don't have any need for those items and encourages you to pick them up.  If, however, you don't get them back from the towing company and you properly asked for their return, you can file a small claims action if the value is under $10,000.  You will have to prove the value of the contents.  However, before you get too upset, try to get the items back from the towing company.  Good luck!  ... Read More

You will want to get all that information about your son to the prosecutors. The first step is to do everything possible to have the charges dismissed. Only then can you proceed with a civil rights case. Definitely retaining a lawyer will help you toward there goal.  Michelle Holmes ... Read More

You must work closely with the Drug Court personnel and be pro-active with regard to any issues and alert them to potential problems. By way of example, you must alert them to any potential changes in medication or treatment. You must have them work clodely with your treating physician. We work very clsoely with the Drug Court team to avoid any potential issues. Please call if we can help you with Drug Court. Ed Dimon, Esq. 732-797-1600 ext 235... Read More

That is a very interesting question. You really need to speak with some employment lawyers. Free speach of civil servants has limitations. A laeyer will want to confidentially examine whether your post was regarding a matter of public concern and possibly more importantly whether you spoke as a private citizen or whether your speech concerned matters which were within your wheelhouse. There are cases out there where police officers or school principals air the dirty laundry of their own departments in public and that is often off limits. But if those persons discuss matters of great public concern, maybe that they are forced to work in a "sick building" and that affects not just the speaker/employee but everyone in the building and they have no control over the building since it is leased from some 3rd party, that might be a matter of great public concern for which they are speaking as a public citizen would and not just for themselves as a disgruntled employee might. Civil servant free speech is not unlimited and you need a lawyer who can dig deeply into what was posted and how that posting made the speech that of a private citizen over the public concern, if it did? Private employees don't have such protections regarding their own employers unless they are attempting to unionize or discuss terms and conditions of employment on their own time. Other speech regarding private employers by their employees might breach duties of loyalty or master servant doctrine which are good law in common law jurisdictions.... Read More

Probable cause is reasonable grounds to believe you committed the crime. Probable cause is sufficient to make an arrest.   Proof beyomd a reasonable doubt is the standard for proof required for a conviction   You should retain ana attorney. STOP talking to EVERYONE about your case!... Read More

We just finished a similar case and were able to have the guns returned to a family member. We had two other cases where we were able to have the weapons sold and have our clients receive the monies. We need to know all the circumstances of the charges and the person. Please call immediately to discuss. Ed Dimon, Esq. 732-797-1600 ext 235... Read More

It appears that the attorney believed that the 5th Amendment did not apply. That was his opinion. You always had the right to disagree and could have chosen not to answer.   Sometimes people believe they can invoke the 5th Amendment whenever they do not want to answer a question. It only applies if it implicates you in criminal conduct... Read More