Alan Feuer

The Department of Justice and federal prosecutors disagree over whether the NYPD officer responsible for Eric Garner’s death committed a civil rights violation.

Brooklyn's first black District Attorney was part of a nationwide trend of prosecutors rethinking their approach to criminal justice.

A New York judge ruled that a four year old girl can be sued for negligence. In April 2009, four year old Juliet Breitman was riding her bike with a friend on a Manhattan sidewalk when she ran down an 87 year old woman named Claire Menagh, who fell and broke her hip. Menagh died several months later of unrelated causes. Justice Paul Wooten of State Supreme Court in Manhattan did not find Juliet liable, but ruled to allow the lawsuit to move forward. Alan Feuer has been following the story for The New York Times.

[CORRECTION: an earlier edition of this story said that Menagh "later died of the injuries she sustained." According to the Times, Menagh's death came months later and of causes unrelated to injuries from the accident. -Eds.]