fourteenth amendment

Federal Judge Places County Jail Into Receivership After County Fails To Comply With Consent Decree 4 August 2022 In an extremely rare move, a federal court has ordered a jail into receivership, placing it under the direct control of a court-appointed third party that will (hopefully) carry...

Sabine County, Texas, deputy stud David Boyd Fifth Circuit: This Badge Wearing Serial Sexual Assaulter Is Beyond Even Our Expansive Definition Of Qualified Immunity 2 August 2022 Yikes. Deputy Boyd stayed for approximately two hours, during which time he made numerous inappropriate sexual...

Innocent Elderly Woman Pulled Over for No Reason as Cops Steal Her Life Savings, Prescription Medicine and Mock Her 18 April 2022 In December 2021, Jeanetta Jones, 62, had harmed no one, committed no crime, and was simply driving home when she was targeted by officers with the the notoriously...

Fresno Bans Journalists—and Everyone Else—From Filming Cops Clearing Out Homeless Camps The ACLU of Northern California is suing to overturn the ordinance. 6 April 2022 The city of Fresno, California, has been trying to prevent citizens from documenting sweeps of homeless encampments in town...

Video Shows California Cops Arresting Mom and Grandma for Filming Them Mariah Herefored says police in Hemet, California, smacked cell phone cameras out of her and her mother's hands and violently arrested them 8 March 2022 Police officers in Hemet, California, arrested a mother and...

First Amendment Group Tells Appeals Court University Officials Shouldn’t Have Access To Qualified Immunity 10 March 2022 Qualified immunity has been heavily criticized for what it allows law enforcement officers to get away with. The Supreme Court-created doctrine excuses officers from civil...

Quincy, Illinois, wannabe cold-case solver Det. Adam Gibson Appeals Court Denies Immunity To Bored Cop Who Decided To Turn A Natural Death Into A Murder 5 January 2022 What happens when you add a bored cop to a cold case? Bad things. Very bad things. That's the moral of the story conveyed...

Court Tells Cops Who Got A Man Wrongly Imprisoned For 25 Years That Of Course Framing People For Crimes Is A Rights Violation 13 December 2021 There's a constitutional right not to be framed by cops for a crime you didn't commit. This shouldn't even need to be argued in court once, much less...

Cops Arrested Her for Exercising Her First Amendment Rights. They Got Qualified Immunity—but the Appeals Court Wasn't Having It 3 November 2021 Whether you can exercise your First Amendment rights freely depends, in some cases, on where you live and what judges happen to hear your plea...

Sheriff Joseph Konrath (left) and Deputy Cameron Klump (right) Wisconsin high schooler wins lawsuit against sheriff over COVID-19 social media post 24 September 2021 A Wisconsin high schooler on Friday won her lawsuit against a sheriff's deputy who allegedly threatened her with arrest if...

Massachusetts Supreme Court Being Asked To Decide Whether Cops Can Engage In Warrantless Surveillance Of Social Media Users 23 September 2021 The top court in Massachusetts is asking itself (and legal counsel representing both sides) questions that -- on the surface level -- don't really...