Sp49Th The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The 1971 Attica Uprising and the 30-Year Civil Rights Litigation that Followed (Zoom)
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As a Federal Court law clerk in Buffalo, Judge Yacknin discovered a dormant complaint that the Court was about to dismiss. Her actions and subsequent involvement in the ensuing civil rights litigation helped to achieve the Attica Prison Settlement, the largest prisoners’ rights settlement in US history
Presented by The Honorable Ellen M. Yacknin, Retired Rochester City Court Judge