Where detention of a male walking with an AR-15-style assault rifle was supported by reasonable suspicion, including that the same type of rifle had been used in a school shooting, he was walking toward a school, appeared to be a ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Judge Robert B. King

Where two police officers argued a civil rights suit brought by a U.S. Army lieutenant who was stopped over the display of his license plate and pepper sprayed should be stayed because the incident was now the subject of state ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Roderick C. Young U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a doctor was aware of an incarcerated man’s medical needs, took steps to increase the patient’s blood sugar level monitoring and explained that he chose not to prescribe insulin because he was afraid of an overdose, he was granted ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Judge William B. Traxler Jr.

Where a judge presided over eviction and collection suits involving a woman who then sued him for violating her rights, he was immune from suit because all of the complained-of actions were undertaken in his judicial capacity. Background Marla Faith ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge M. Hannah Lauck U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where default was entered against a correctional official sued for allegedly sexually assaulting and psychologically torturing a detainee, but the detainee then filed an amended complaint, the default was vacated as moot. Background Plaintiffs Viviana Anselme and Alysha Honeycutt are ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Joel Hoppe U.S. District Court - Western District

In a case of first impression, the court joined other circuits in holding that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA, didn’t create a private right to sue. As such, a detainee who alleged his doctor ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Judge Julius N. Richardson

Where a detainee at the Richmond city jail alleged that officials responded with tear gas after the incarcerated complained about how the facility was responding to COVID-19, his excessive force claim survived a motion to dismiss. Background Cameron Fobbs, who ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge David J. Novak U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where claims against the City of Danville, arising out of the 2018 shooting death of an unarmed Black man by two city officers, were dependent on a finding of individual § 1983 liability against the officers, the claims against the ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

Where an Elizabeth City police officer had a reasonable basis to arrest a man in connection with amplified preaching at a potato festival for his willful offense of resisting, delaying or obstructing, his First Amendment claims failed. Where his challenge ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights

Where the former psychiatric patient alleged his due process rights were violated when he was placed in restraints for two weeks, his claim was dismissed because he failed to show two defendants personally participated and failed to overcome the presumption ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge David J. Novak U.S. District Court - Eastern District