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

A student who was summoned to a principal’s office on a complaint from two parents that a long-haired student was observed smoking marijuana on a school bus that morning, can sue an associate principal for violation of his Fourth Amendment ...

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

A Baltimore local ordinance substituting a cost-of-living adjustment for a “variable benefit” in police and firefighter pensions did not impair plaintiffs’ rights under the Contract Clause of the U.S. Constitution because plaintiffs retained a state law remedy for breach of ...

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

A Charlottesville U.S. District Court denies summary judgment to defendant male correctional officer who allegedly used excessive force when he handcuffed plaintiff, a female inmate, in a manner that violated Department of Corrections’ rules for restraining a woman of her ...

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

Two defendant correctional officers, non-medical staff members of the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail, are dismissed as defendants in an estate’s suit alleging deliberate indifference to a female inmate’s serious medical condition of drug and alcohol withdrawal, and cannot be held ...

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

A Danville U.S. District Court says a deputy sheriff does not have qualified immunity from a civil rights complaint alleging she came onto plaintiff’s rural Patrick County property, walked to the back of the property and began photographing a white ...

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

A woman who alleges she was pulled from her open garage, handcuffed and arrested for being drunk in public when a deputy responding to a noise complaint told her friends they could not drink in public view, can sue for ...

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

Taking judicial notice of a pro se plaintiff’s complaint filed in federal court in 2013, which is the same suit naming several additional defendants, the Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses this suit alleging plaintiff’s arrest at a protest of a ...

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

In a 2-to-1 panel vote, the 4th Circuit affirms a district court decision striking Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriages, with the panel majority saying the commonwealth’s ban impermissibly infringes on its citizens’ fundamental right to marry. This case concerns a ...

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

A plaintiff’s suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 arising out of his sexual assault by a cellmate while incarcerated at Bristol City Jail will go forward as defendant city has failed to show plaintiff did not exhaust his administrative remedies. ...

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