A marriage advocacy group that settled its suit against the IRS for disclosure of a donor list from the group’s tax return for $50,000 cannot collect attorney’s fees of nearly $700,000 from the IRS; the Alexandria U.S. District Court says ...

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

A majority of the three-judge panel reviewing Virginia’s last round of Congressional redistricting says the 3rd Congressional District cannot survive strict scrutiny review, as plaintiffs have demonstrated that race was the legislature’s predominant consideration in drawing the boundaries; the Richmond ...

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

The 4th Circuit reverses denial of an injunction against provisions of a North Carolina voting law that would have eliminated same-day registration during early voting and voided ballots cast on election day outside of a person’s assigned precinct, but affirms ...

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

A plaintiff who alleges he was beaten into a coma by defendant employees of the Roanoke City Sheriff while detained at the city jail has his state tort claims for assault and battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress dismissed ...

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

A man who served 20 years in prison for murder before DNA tests led to his freedom will have a second chance to sue the city of Baltimore, its police force and three of its officers for $15 million, alleging ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Federal Courts Judge Diana Gribbon Motz Judge James A. Wynn Jr. Judge William B. Traxler Jr.

A man who served 20 years in prison for a rape and murder he did not commit may sue Baltimore police officers and the city police department under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for the officers’ suppression of exculpatory evidence obtained ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Judge Diana Gribbon Motz

In this suit by a volunteer firefighter who alleges he resigned his position as treasurer of the nonstock Fire Department corporation and was suspended as a member after he raised issues about lack of funding and inadequate resources, the Harrisonburg ...

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

Defendant prison officials were entitled to qualified immunity in a suit by a convicted child sex offender who was beaten when he was briefly left alone in a prison recreation yard with gang members; the 4th Circuit reverses a denial ...

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

Norfolk federal judge has allowed a family’s claim to go forward against two police officers involved in the fatal shooting last year of a suspected bad check artist. U.S. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson rejected a motion to dismiss a ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Federal Courts Judge Raymond A. Jackson

Police who allegedly were trying to arrest decedent for a non-violent property crime by blocking his vehicle in a bank drive-through lane, so that decedent tried to slowly back out of the lane where a second officer stood behind the ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Raymond A. Jackson U.S. District Court - Eastern District