A plaintiff who alleges defendant, a lieu­tenant in the Caroline County sheriff’s of­fice, obtained search warrants for plaintiff that a state court said showed a reckless disregard as to the falsity of the support­ing statements, and stopped defendant’s car and ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A plaintiff with speech and physical difficulties from cerebellar ataxia, who alleged he was advised by a cable tele­vision technician to report to police his neighbors’ illegal splicing and theft of his cable service, can sue police for his in­voluntary ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Judge William B. Traxler Jr.

(AP) Virginia’s attorney general says violations of federal sex-discrimination laws based on sexual orientation or gender identity also are violations of state law. Democrat Mark Herring issued that opinion Tuesday in response to requests by three state lawmakers. It comes as ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights

In this legal malpractice action, a Norfolk Circuit Court says defendants are not pro­tected by sovereign immunity or collateral estoppel from a suit claiming the lawyers did not name as defendants in a civil rights suit the hospital staff members ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Charles E. Poston Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

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