Where the inmate demonstrated he was denied a meaningful opportunity to shower and exercise while he was in solitary confinement, and the parties disputed whether the denials were sufficiently serious and whether prison officials acted with a sufficiently culpable state ...

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

Where police shot at a man 29 times in his dwelling after officers armed with assault rifles entered the home with a warrant to search for drugs and failed to identify themselves as police,  the facts showed an officer’s use ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Judge Barbara Milano Keenan

Where a chapter of the NAACP sued Hanover County and its School Board claiming the alleged veneration of the Confederacy in schools deprives African American students of an equal opportunity to an education, Hanover County was dismissed as a defendant ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the plaintiff was arrested after a confrontation in a Longwood University dormitory as a result of an allegedly misleading affidavit submitted by a university police officer, a jury will decide if the officer made material misrepresentations or omissions in ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the plaintiff alleged county officials punished him when they granted other businesses an unfair advantage by allowing them to operate without septic systems, because the actions occurred in 2009 at the latest, the suit was filed beyond the tw0-year ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Jackson L. Kiser U.S. District Court - Western District

Where the evidence showed one official within the prison’s health department was aware of the plaintiff’s Hepatitis C status, lack of treatment and resulting risk of harm, and another official postponed treatment for inmates with Hepatitis C knowing it would ...

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

Where four African American plaintiffs assert that they were stopped and searched as a result of racial profiling by an Albemarle County police officer and the district court applied an incorrect standard in rejecting their statistical evidence, the case was ...

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

Where four male students were suspended or expelled from Virginia Tech after they were accused of sexual misconduct, they could not sue the school for due process violations because they did not have a protected liberty or property interest in ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District

Where the facts showed the police officer included “false” statements in her criminal complaint, and omitted other evidence relevant to the case, the court held the officer was not entitled to qualified immunity in a civil rights lawsuit alleging malicious  ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where necessary and effective medical treatment was a right clearly established in the law, the complaint plausibly alleged there was “no medical reason” to withhold treatment;  nor was there grounds for dismissal based on qualified immunity. Background Plaintiff’s complaint, filed ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Mark Davis U.S. District Court - Eastern District