9 results for 'cat:"Civil Rights" AND cat:"Government" AND cat:"Police Misconduct"'.
[Consolidated.] J. Cogburn grants a municipality’s motion to stay this suit during the ongoing appeal, sought by one of its police officers, of a negligence suit brought by a man the officer shot while he was at the local airport. The appeal must be resolved before the present suit can proceed.
Court: USDC Western District of North Carolina, Judge: Cogburn, Filed On: February 29, 2024, Case #: 3:21cv455, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, government, police Misconduct
J. Chambers grants summary judgment to the commission and seven deputy sheriffs in a couple's complaint alleging the deputies violated their constitutional rights after they were dispatched to the couple's home in response to two brief 911 calls. After the husband was charged with domestic battery and interfering with a 911 call, deputies returned to the home in April 2022 to execute a search warrant and check on the two daughters' welfare when the mother failed to answer subpoenas to testify. The couple failed to establish the deputies engaged in any unlawful activity during their investigations.
Court: USDC Southern District of West Virginia, Judge: Chambers, Filed On: February 12, 2024, Case #: 3:22cv277, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, government, police Misconduct
J. Berger grants in part the Summers County Sheriff's deputy's motion for summary judgment in the civil rights suit accusing him and two West Virginia State troopers of unlawfully entering an elderly Pence Spring woman's home in the course of executing an arrest warrant on her son, then using excessive force to restrain and arrest her. The deputy is entitled to qualified immunity on the count of unlawful entry since he did not accompany the troopers to serve the warrant, and, upon arriving after they began to subdue the woman, entered the home when one of the troopers claimed she assaulted him.
Court: USDC Southern District of West Virginia, Judge: Berger, Filed On: December 21, 2023, Case #: 2:22cv148, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, government, police Misconduct
J. Gallagher dismisses in part a protester’s civil conspiracy and false imprisonment claim against police officers in Reading, Pennsylvania, who arrested him while he spoke about his religious beliefs outside of a school on a public sidewalk. The protester failed to provide facts to support these claims.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Judge: Gallagher, Filed On: October 25, 2023, Case #: 5:23cv1523, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, government, police Misconduct
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J. Otake dismisses claims against the state and Maui county and its police department alleging that an individual was wrongfully arrested and incarcerated and his son kidnapped and placed into foster care. The state and county agencies have Eleventh Amendment immunity from the claims. Claims against the Maui Police Department and its officers also fail to demonstrate any sufficient allegations of misconduct.
Court: USDC Hawaii, Judge: Otake, Filed On: July 7, 2023, Case #: 1:23cv5, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, government, police Misconduct
J. Chambers grants in part and denies in part the Wayne County municipality’s and two of its police officers’ motion for summary judgment in a mother’s civil rights suit claiming her son died due to head trauma following the officers’ excessive use of force. The court finds sufficient material issues of facts for a jury to decide whether one of the officers had probable cause to believe the decedent posed a threat of serious harm to him and as to whether the officer’s actions were reasonable, and on the state law claim against the chief of police for spoliation of evidence.
Court: USDC Southern District of West Virginia, Judge: Chambers, Filed On: May 19, 2023, Case #: 3:21cv197, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, government, police Misconduct