Alexandra Weaver argued that she could not reasonably have been expected to know that her actions were unconstitutional.

The officers argued that they should receive qualified immunity in the federal lawsuit filed by Cedric "CJ" Lofton's brother.

Oregon corrections officials will have to defend claims that they violated prisoners’ Eighth Amendment rights by failing to protect them from exposure to Covid-19, a federal appeals court said.

Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, known formally as 42 U.S.C. §1983, is a federal law that allows for the suing ...

U.S. District Judge Joel H. Slomsky ruled that the “individual defendants should have known that there was no probable cause ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a case involving a Massachusetts public school ...

A federal judge has denied an Iowa man's appeal, preventing him from suing investigators who arrested him for his mother's murder.

McKenzie, 58, was charged by the Portsmouth Police Department with sexual assault and simple assault of a minor at Gibbs ...

Bribes of heroin. Threats of arrest. Hours of interrogating a sex worker convulsing from opioid withdrawal. One year after ...

A panel of U.S. Court of Appeals judges agreed with a lower court that Sedgwick County juvenile detention personnel couldn’t sidestep an excessive-force lawsuit filed against them after a teenager in ...

The proposals to overturn legislation overhauling higher education, eliminate property taxes and end qualified immunity will ...