Probation officers must have “reasonable suspicion” in order to arrest a person for a probation violation, and defendant probation officers violated a plaintiff’s Fourth Amendment rights when they arrested him on an unenforceable order to pay court costs and fines, ...

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

Plaintiff prisoner was not a party to a 2010 suit by inmates alleging prison food was so nutritionally deficient it violated their Eighth Amendment rights, and a district court erred in dismissing plain­tiff’s suit on res judicata grounds, the 4th ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Judge Paul V. Niemeyer

An assistant county attorney has quali­fied immunity in this civil rights suit filed by a lawyer who was arrested for failing to appear at the return date of a summons to answer interrogatories in the county’s ac­tion for unpaid taxes ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Claude M. Hilton U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In ruling on a transgender high-school student’s Title IX challenge to the local school board’s policy that forbade him from using the boys’ restroom at his school, the district court did not give prop­er deference to the Department of Educa­tion’s ...

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

The 4th Circuit affirms a district court’s decision that it had no subject matter ju­risdiction over a lawsuit filed by the 24th Senatorial District Republican Committee of Virginia and its committee chair chal­lenging Virginia’s Incumbent Protection Act, which allows an ...

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

Plaintiff states claims for unlawful sei­zure and excessive force against defendant state trooper, allegedly a friend of her hus­band who seized her and took her away for an involuntary psychiatric examination when plaintiff and her husband were having marital difficulties; ...

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

A male college student can sue James Madison University for violation of his procedural due process rights based on a property interest, for refusing to allow him to appear before an appeal board and lim­iting his ability to respond to ...

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

The 4th Circuit affirms summary judg­ment for a school board in this lawsuit filed by a student and his parents alleging the school did not adequately respond to com­plaints about the student being bullied by other students because of learning ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Judge Pamela A. Harris

A Fairfax Circuit Court denies recon­sideration of its earlier rejection of a motorist’s claim that an assessment for 157 separate violations of Va. Code § 46.2-819.1 for failure to pay tolls while using the Dulles Toll Road amounts to an ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Michael F. Devine Virginia Circuit Courts

A first sergeant and Iraq war veteran who allegedly was ordered out of his car and tased three times over not having his driver’s license, after offering his military identification to the officer, has established excessive force in violation of ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Judge Loretta C. Biggs