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A retaliatory arrest or retaliatory prosecution occurs when law enforcement or prosecutorial actions are initiated in response to an individual’s exercise of their civil rights, such as freedom of speech or assembly. These actions are considered forms of misconduct, as they aim to punish individuals for engaging in constitutionally protected ...
Case history; Prior: White v. Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railroad Co., 364 F.3d 789 (6th Cir. 2004). Holding; The anti-retaliation provision (42 U. S. C. §2000e–3(a)) under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not confine the actions and harms it forbids to those that are related to employment or occur at the workplace.
A Leon County jury awarded a former Florida Department of Corrections employee nearly $300,000 on Wednesday for being wrongfully terminated in retaliation for reporting the department's "unlawful ...
Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, 585 U.S. ___ (2018), is a case in which the United States Supreme Court decided that the mere existence of probable cause for an arrest did not bar the plaintiff's First Amendment retaliatory arrest claim, but deferred consideration of the broader question of when it might.
The FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are being sued by 16 current agents who say their review of those who worked on the cases of some 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants is a preparation to retaliate ...
Selective enforcement has become a topic of great discussion in the illegal immigration debate. The 2011 "Morton Memo" [7] laid out enforcement priorities for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and was intended to channel limited resources into prioritized pursuit of cases involving criminals and felons. It was interpreted as the ...
Law enforcement officers cannot be subject to retaliation for the exercise of these or any other rights under Federal, or State. As of April 2015 [update] , the following U.S. states have enacted legislation to codify their own variations of a Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights: [ 2 ]
Employees in the St. Louis suburb of Normandy are adding their names to a growing pile of lawsuits against the city that allege discriminatory treatment, harassment and retaliation against ...