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Excessive force
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Commercial Litigation Update
Court Refuses to Extend Bivens to Excessive Force and Retaliation Claims: SCOTUS Today
Notwithstanding the fact that, as we approach the end of the term, the Court still had 30 cases to decide as of Wednesday morning, June 8, the day’s count has…
Health Law Prof Blog
Medical Professionals, Excessive Force, and the Fourth Amendment
Osagie K. Obasogie (University of California), Anna Zaret (University of California), Medical Professionals, Excessive Force, and the Fourth Amendment, 109 Cal. L. Rev. (2021):Police use of force is a persistent…
Paul W. Mollica Federal Courts Blog
Summary Judgment Inappropriate Even Where Plaintiff’s Only Eyewitness Account Is Contradicted by Others on the Scene as Well as by the Witness’s Original Police Statement, Holds Sixth Circuit
In Gambrel v. Knox Cnty., Ky., No. 20-6027 (6th Cir. Feb. 8, 2022), the panel reverses in part summary judgment in a § 1983 Fourth Amendment excessive force case. Applying Scott…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Fourth Circuit panel finds probation sentence for abusive police officer procedurally <em>and</em> substantively unreasonable
I just saw a notable Fourth Circuit per curiam panel ruling which was handed down on Thanksgiving Eve. The (unpublished) opinion in US v. George, No. 19-4841 (4th Cir. Nov.…
California Public Safety Labor Blog
A Look Inside The Daniel Rivas-Villegas v. Ramon Cortesluna Case
By Mastagni Law
Daniel Rivas-Villegas v. Ramon Cortesluna, 595 U. S. ____ (2021) FactsPetitioner Rivas-Villegas, a police officer in Union City, CA, responded to a 911 call where respondent Ramon Cortesluna, holding a chainsaw,…
Kirakosian Law Blog
$1,150,000 LAPD Wrongful Death Settlement
Another successful civil rights case against the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) as well as 13 S.W.A.T. police offers who used extreme excessive forceand…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Lots of criminal justice sound (and fury, signifying nothing?) in latest SCOTUS order list
The Supreme Court is apparently not going to issue the final opinions of the Term today, but it did issue this lengthy order list which has a number of interesting…
Criminal
Lots of criminal justice sound (and fury, signifying nothing?) in latest SCOTUS order list
The Supreme Court is apparently not going to issue the final opinions of the Term today, but it did issue this lengthy order list which has a number of interesting…
California Public Safety Labor Blog
Sixth Circuit Rules Deputies are Entitled to Summary Judgment on Qualified Immunity Where Allegations of Excessive Force are “Blatantly Contradicted” by Dashboard Cameras
By Mastagni Law
In Cunningham v. Shelby County, Tennessee (6th Cir. 2021) 994 F.3d 761, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals highlighted the important benefits officers enjoy from body worn and dashboard cameras…
New York Injury Cases Blog
Gunshot Victim’s Pain and Suffering Award Affirmed
On February 1, 2006, Raoul Lopez was driving on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx when he was pulled over by New York City Police Department officers. At some point…