Where a judge presided over eviction and collection suits involving a woman who then sued him for violating her rights, he was immune from suit because all of the complained-of actions were undertaken in his judicial capacity. Background Marla Faith ...

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

Where default was entered against a correctional official sued for allegedly sexually assaulting and psychologically torturing a detainee, but the detainee then filed an amended complaint, the default was vacated as moot. Background Plaintiffs Viviana Anselme and Alysha Honeycutt are ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Joel Hoppe U.S. District Court - Western District

In a case of first impression, the court joined other circuits in holding that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA, didn’t create a private right to sue. As such, a detainee who alleged his doctor ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Judge Julius N. Richardson

Where a detainee at the Richmond city jail alleged that officials responded with tear gas after the incarcerated complained about how the facility was responding to COVID-19, his excessive force claim survived a motion to dismiss. Background Cameron Fobbs, who ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge David J. Novak U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where claims against the City of Danville, arising out of the 2018 shooting death of an unarmed Black man by two city officers, were dependent on a finding of individual § 1983 liability against the officers, the claims against the ...

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

Where an Elizabeth City police officer had a reasonable basis to arrest a man in connection with amplified preaching at a potato festival for his willful offense of resisting, delaying or obstructing, his First Amendment claims failed. Where his challenge ...

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

Where the former psychiatric patient alleged his due process rights were violated when he was placed in restraints for two weeks, his claim was dismissed because he failed to show two defendants personally participated and failed to overcome the presumption ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge David J. Novak U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the district court held that a settlement pact between women incarcerated at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women and officials of the Virginia Department of Corrections could not be enforced via contempt because it did not comply with Fed. ...

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

Where the government used a flawed analysis to convict the owner of a chain of pharmacies of Medicaid fraud, and he sued the prosecutor for fabricating evidence used at trial, the prosecutor was shielded by absolute immunity because she was ...

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

Where an officer claimed she acted reasonably in shooting the robbery suspect because she could not see his left hand and he refused to cooperate with her commands, she had no specific evidence that he carried a weapon or posed ...

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