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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.
Alexandra Weaver argued that she could not reasonably have been expected to know her actions were unconstitutional.
A judge denied a request by Youngstown to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Carrier Services Group, the last tenant at the city-owned 20 Federal Place that is seeking more than $500,000 in damages. Judge ...
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 ...
U.S. District Judge Joel H. Slomsky ruled that the “individual defendants should have known that there was no probable cause ...
McKenzie, 58, was charged by the Portsmouth Police Department with sexual assault and simple assault of a minor at Gibbs ...
The proposals to overturn legislation overhauling higher education, eliminate property taxes and end qualified immunity will ...
Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in a new opinion issued Thursday that the Court should "reexamine" a ...
Ryan Hinton was a teenager, a brother, a son − a neighbor. On May 1, Cincinnati police shot and killed him. His family ...
The authors look at the Supreme Court’s recent Devas decision, which resolved a circuit split on the issue of personal ...
A lawsuit stemming from several disputes between an out-of-state property owner and the board chairman in the Town of Cedar Lake is now is now headed to the U.S. Court ...
The officers argued that they should receive qualified immunity in the federal lawsuit filed by Cedric "CJ" Lofton's brother.