An inmate who suffered a body temperature of 108.5 degrees and a heat stroke that caused permanent injury, after personnel at the Richmond city jail allegedly failed to allow inmates housed on the Medical Tier access to air-conditioned portions of ...

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

A Virginia Beach police officer accused of grabbing a woman, who merely answered his knock in a search for a juvenile, slamming her to the ground and twisting her arm behind her back, is not entitled to qualified immunity before ...

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

In a split panel decision, the 4th Circuit vacates a Roanoke district court’s dismissal of deliberate indifference claims against three prison officials filed by a prison inmate who alleges his numerous complaints about repeated physical and sexual abuse by other ...

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

In this civil rights suit filed by “impecunious” plaintiffs who beg for sustenance, a Charlottesville U.S. District Court says defendant city of Charlottesville has failed to carry its burden of showing the content-neutrality of an ordinance that prohibits individuals from ...

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

In the wake of a Richmond U.S. District Court decision that the 2012 redistricting plan implemented by Virginia violates the Equal Protection Clause, the court grants the intervenor defendant’s motion to postpone the remedial deadline for a new plan until ...

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

A county ordinance prohibiting panhandling and charitable solicitation in roadways addresses a public interest in safety, but the county has failed to show the ordinance is narrowly tailored, as it applies to all county roads and includes all medians; the ...

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

The City of Richmond will pay a record $2.99 million to resolve a civil rights claim by a former inmate who claimed he was left disabled from heat stroke suffered at the old city jail in 2012. Evidence in the ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Federal Courts Judge Robert E. Payne

A resident of the city of Alexandria who wants to sell his 2007 Dodge Ram pickup by parking it on a city street near his home with a for-sale sign in the window may proceed with his legal challenge to ...

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

A Northern Virginia lawyer says he was arrested and led in handcuffs from his law office because he was listed as a registered agent for a business that skipped a court hearing over an unpaid tax bill. The lawyer filed ...

Tagged with: Attorneys Bankruptcy Civil Rights Taxation

An African-American customer who alleges he observed a white Home Depot clerk allow a white customer to return cans of spray paint without a receipt, but the same store clerk refused to allow plaintiff to return unopened spray paint cans ...

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