On April 21, 2017, the New Mexico Trial Lawyers Foundation held its 33rd Annual Amicus Honors Gala. The NMTLF took the unusual step of selecting dual honorees, Shannon and Joseph Kennedy, who have been protecting civil rights in New Mexico for over two decades....
A.M. v. HOLMES FEATURED ON SCOTUSblog’s SPOTLIGHT OF SUPREME COURT NOMINEE GORSUCH
Judge Gorsuch's dissent in ' case A.M. v. Holmes is being featured on SCOTUSblog as a part of a feature on the Supreme Court Nominee's First Amendment Jurisprudence. Read more at the link below.
SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE: ARRESTED FOR BURPING IN SCHOOL
This firm today filed a petition to the United States Supreme Court in A.M. v. Acosta, a case in which a 13-year-old middle school student in Albuquerque, New Mexico was detained by police and transported in handcuffs to the juvenile detention center for burping...
COMMENT ON THE CASE: YOUNG V. BEESLEY
On February 22, 2017, a jury returned a verdict against our client, Tim Young, in his claim that a doctor at Gila Regional Medical Center, Bryant Beesley, M.D., battered him when he conducted a rectal digital search at the request of Hidalgo County Sheriff's...
BALLISTIC EXPERTS CONCLUDE OFFICER’S ACCOUNT OF SHOOTING SCIENTIFICALLY IMPOSSIBLE
KOB4 Eyewitness news interview's Shannon Kennedy on the shooting of Mary Hawkes and the lawsuit filed by Kennedy, Kennedy & Ives on behalf of the Mary Hawkes Estate in the Second Judicial District Court of Albuquerque.
ALBUQUERQUE’S 40-YEAR HISTORY OF POLICE MISCONDUCT
Al Jazeera follows the Albuquerque Police Department's (APD) 40-year history of police misconduct and department corruption. Recent events are the Department of Justice findings against the APD, victims' stories (including that of Kenneth Ellis III represented by...
