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Barnes v. Felix is a pending United States Supreme Court case on excessive force claims under the Fourth Amendment. [1] [2] The court will decide whether courts should apply the “moment of the threat” doctrine, which looks only at the narrow window in which a police officer's safety was threatened to determine whether his actions were reasonable, in evaluating claims that police officers ...
Two NYPD detectives allege in a bombshell lawsuit filed Saturday that they have become modern day Serpicos – investigating police corruption at the highest levels only to be retaliated against ...
Another citizen journalist—Priscilla Villarreal of Laredo, Texas, which is located 4.5 hours from Fort Bend County—is asking the Supreme Court to hear her case after local police arrested her ...
In 2022, police received a tip that officers were getting paid to make DWI cases disappear—the same allegation that prompted FBI raids in January. In 2022, police received a tip that officers ...
Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety, 597 U.S. 580 (2022), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the Uniformed Services Employment and Re-employment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) and state sovereign immunity. In a 5–4 decision issued in June 2022, the Court ruled that state sovereign immunity does not prevent states from ...
The book Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town by Nate Blakeslee was to be adapted into a film directed by John Singleton starring Billy Bob Thornton. Halle Berry was cast to play a lawyer in the film. Berry was to play an attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. The movie was never completed. [31]
A Texas sheriff who's been the subject of years of complaints about dysfunction and corruption was repeatedly reported to state and federal law enforcement by his own deputies — yet an outside ...
The Supreme Court of the United States handed down seven per curiam opinions during its 2018 term, which began October 1, 2018, and concluded October 6, 2019. [1]Because per curiam decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices.