CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

Have you not been treated equally with respect to your ethnicity, gender, national origin, sex or other such attributes? KNA PEARL is here to ensure that you get justice if your civil rights have been violated and to ensure that victims get financial compensation.

Primary sources of civil rights law include the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution (the “Bill of Rights”), as well as a number of important pieces of federal legislation passed in recent decades. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a notable example of federal law aimed at preventing discrimination. Other examples include the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Civil rights law is also based on published court decisions that interpret the meaning of legislation and help determine how the law is applied in a given situation. Finally, states have enacted their own civil rights legislation to supplement existing federal protections. The firm also focuses its work around the explosion of the new "sharing economy" and the daily impact it has on civil rights in the United States of America in the areas of public accommodation, transportation and commerce .

The most common types of private lawsuits alleging civil rights violations that KNA PEARL covers are:

• Discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex or sexual orientation.
• Sexual harassment.
• Results from improper conduct by law enforcement.
• Excessive force or brutality.
• Illegal searches and seizures.
• False arrests.
• Malicious prosecutions.
• Unjustified police shootings.
• Other abuses of power.