Senior government officials, including the former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, cannot be held liable for claims they unlawfully used electronic surveillance to spy on a CBS television reporter because such conduct did not violate a clearly established right. Background ...

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

Where a hearing officer determined an inmate violated prison regulations after he tested positive for opiates, his request for a chain-of-custody report, an access log for the drug test results and a list of his current medications was properly denied. ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Justice D. Arthur Kelsey Supreme Court of Virginia

Where plaintiff claimed that defendants falsely accused her of a crime and purposely omitted information from a warrant application to arrest her on false charges in retaliation for her complaints about the job performance of one of the defendants, she ...

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

Officers were not entitled to qualified immunity on plaintiff’s excessive force claims where they may not have fired any shots at plaintiff’s vehicle until the vehicle had already passed them because there was no longer an immediate risk to their ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Judge Henry F. Floyd

Although a court had already concluded the former Assistant United States Attorney intentionally withheld exculpatory evidence in the plaintiff’s prior criminal trial, the court held his civil rights’ claims against the AUSA either failed to state a claim or must ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

A plaintiff who was arrested pursuant to a valid warrant and held in custody for nearly four months even though she was innocent could not bring a civil rights violations claim against the arresting officers because she failed to demonstrate ...

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

The former student from China on an F-1 visa alleged Virginia Tech and two employees violated his rights by notifying Homeland Security when he dropped below the number of credit hours needed to maintain full-time status and by convening a ...

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

The employee alleged a school board and others violated his civil rights based on a custom or practice that allowed school officials to detain persons with scant evidence of wrongdoing, and that the board failed to properly train its personnel. ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although the corrections officer has notice of the suit in which he was named as a defendant, he established that he was not properly served because the complaint was not left at his “usual place of abode.” The court, however, ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

Although an inmate experienced serious, but short-lived, harm, a doctor’s decision to monitor the inmate’s diabetes and to treat it with diet, rather than medication, did not evidence deliberate indifference to the man’s medical needs.. Background Carey Hixson, an insulin-dependent ...

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