Defendant police officers are facing plau­sible claims for battery, false imprisonment and a civil rights violation from a man whom they detained for a mental health evaluation after visiting him at a Comfort Inn on a wel­fare check requested by ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

In two consolidated cases, the 4th Circuit reverses a district court’s rejection of plain­tiff voters’ claims that some Wake County, North Carolina, school board and county commissioner board districts have been re­drawn based on an improper weighting of partisanship in ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Judge James A. Wynn Jr.

A Richmond U.S. District Court says a plaintiff may sue defendant police officers for excessive force for their alleged use of a Taser and pepper spray and forcible removal of plaintiff from his vehicle after an auto­mobile accident, allowing his ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Richmond U.S. District Court upholds Virginia’s Voter ID law, SB 1256, in plaintiffs’ broad-based challenge to the law’s require­ment that voters present a form of statuto­rily-approved identification in order to vote. The approved forms of identification in­clude a valid ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although a prosecutor restored plaintiff’s deleted comments on a Facebook page main­tained by the Loudoun County Common­wealth’s Attorney Office, the prosecutor still faces a First Amendment claim for injunctive relief related to one deleted comment, an Al­exandria U.S. District Court ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The 4th Circuit affirms dismissal of Lib­ertarian political candidate Robert Sarvis’ constitutional challenge to Virginia’s three-tiered ballot ordering law; the three-tiered ballot ordering law imposes little burden on appellant’s constitutional rights and Virginia articulates several important interests sup­porting the law. ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III

A Maryland federal court’s Local Rule 701 regulating practice by Maryland bar mem­bers and non-Maryland bar members for lawyers practicing in the federal court does not violate the First Amendment, the Equal Protection Clause, the Rules Enabling Act or the ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Judge John A. Gibney Jr.

An inmate who alleges defendant correc­tional officials threatened to keep him in ad­ministrative segregation unless he consented to surgical removal of marbles he had im­planted in his penis prior to his incarceration, even though a prison doctor found no medi­cal ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Judge Roger L. Gregory

A rural airport in Southwest Virginia is facing a trial on its former manager’s claim that the airport commission violated his privacy rights when it accessed an email account he used for work.

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge James P. Jones

Defendant housing officials for the city of Richmond have qualified immunity in a suit filed by Latino residents of mobile homes alleging selective and discrimina­tory enforcement of building codes against Latino homeowners violated federal and state fair housing laws. Plaintiffs ...

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