Where plaintiffs voluntarily discontinued their first action against defendants just two months before trial because the attorney that replaced their initial counsel did not have sufficient time to prepare and shortly thereafter filed a nearly identical action against the same ...

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

Where a prisoner was killed by a fellow inmate, the facts were insufficient to support a claim against the corrections officers for violations of the prisoner’s rights under the Fifth and Eighth Amendment. Background At the time of his death ...

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

A pro se complaint that seeks to have a Confederate monument relocated from downtown Norfolk to a city cemetery is dismissed because plaintiffs have failed to a state a claim for which relief can be granted. Free speech Plaintiffs have ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Bruce D. White Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

The City of Richmond is not liable for the death of a man fatally shot by an off-duty police officer because its training materials did not reflect deliberate indifference, as required to impose liability on the city. The case will ...

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

A district court that found a police officer entitled to qualified immunity erred by failing to construe evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, who was shot by the officer. A majority of the court held the facts ...

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

Senior government officials, including the former Attorney General and the Postmaster General, cannot be held liable for claims they unlawfully relied on electronic surveillance to spy on a CBS television reporter because such conduct did not violate a clearly established ...

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

A mother who was arrested for disorderly conduct at her daughter’s school after she criticized a police officer when she observed the officer refusing to allow another mother to escort her child down the hallway could pursue her claims of ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge M. Hannah Lauck U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A janitor at mental health clinic who was seized by the clinic’s private police department at his residence, interrogated and allegedly coerced into confessing to lighting matches at the clinic could only pursue a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim against the ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Frederick P. Stamp U.S. District Court - Western District

A restaurant that refused to allow a child with a severe gluten sensitivity to bring in his own homemade meal could be sued for discrimination in violation of the American with Disabilities Act. Background J.D. is an 11-year-old boy who ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Judge Albert Diaz

Plaintiffs can go forward with a suit that alleges defendants interfered with fair housing rights by not renting a dwelling at the advertised price because the family had five minor children. Facts The complaint in this case alleged that the ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Jeanette A. Irby Loudoun County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts