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Excessive force
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Sentencing Law and Policy
Latest trial of Michael Slager for killing Walter Scott taking place during his federal sentencing for civil rights offense
Main December 4, 2017Latest trial of Michael Slager for killing Walter Scott taking place during his federal sentencing for civil rights offenseAs noted in this post from May, after a…
The Right Coast
Cop who forcibly arrested nurse fired from medic job | New York Post
SALT LAKE CITY A Utah police officer seen on video roughly arresting a nurse who refused to draw blood from a patient was fired Tuesday from his part-time paramedic job.Salt…
PrawfsBlawg
Excessive force
Main Friday, July 28, 2017Excessive forceFollowing the President's speech today, the Suffolk County Police Department found it necessary to announce to the public (and remind their officers) about the Fourth…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Amy Howe on Hernandez v. Mesa
Amy Howe for SOTUSBlog looks at the Supreme Court's disposition yesterday of Hernandez v. Mesa, which involved the shooting of a Mexican citizens by a U.S. border officer along the…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Seventh Circuit panel again finds below-guideline sentence for abusive police officer unreasonable
Main June 20, 2017Seventh Circuit panel again finds below-guideline sentence for abusive police officer unreasonableEspecially because it can sometimes seem that post-Booker reasonableness review of sentences has little bite, it…
The Appellate Law Blog
Tasing of Resistant Rancher Found Objectively Reasonable by Eighth Circuit
Tasing of Resistant Rancher Found Objectively Reasonable by Eighth Circuit When the Sheriff returned the next day to serve a search warrant, another confrontation occured, this time with Brossart's sons.…
Supreme Court Update
Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc. (15-1189), County of Los Angeles v. Mendez (16-369), Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions (16-54) and BNSF Railway Co. v. Tyrrell (16-405)
The Court packed four new opinions into this holiday-shortened week, including the first case to be decided by nine justices in sixteen months. In that case, BNSF Railway Co. v.…
Appellate Advocacy Blog
Appellate Advocacy Blog Weekly Roundup April 28 2017
By Daniel Real
As we do every Friday, the Appellate Advocacy Blog presents a few tidbits of news and Twitter posts from the past week concerning appellate advocacy. As always, if you see something…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
SCOTUS Denies Cert in Summary Judgment Case
Today the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in Salazar-Limon v. City of Houston. Unlike most cert denials, this one prompted written opinions—one dissenting and one concurring. Justice Sotomayor, joined by…
PrawfsBlawg
Did United Airlines act under color?
Main Monday, April 10, 2017Did United Airlines act under color?It strikes me as a question worth considering. Ordinarily, one private actor calling law enforcement to enforce private rights as against…