fourth amendment

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...

Lawsuit claims Loveland cop has history of wrongful DUI arrests 6 January 2022 A pilot claims in a new lawsuit against the Loveland Police Department that he was wrongfully arrested for drunk driving by an officer with a history of unjustified arrests. The breath and blood tests Harris Elias...

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, police officers Tyler Richardson & Jared Michael Jupin detained innocent black teens at gunpoint Eighth Circuit (Again) Says There's Nothing Wrong With Detaining Innocent Minors At Gunpoint 4 January 2022 What's unreasonable for law enforcement to do when searching for a...

If you openly carry a gun, don't do it while loudly singing Hakuna Matata 2 June 2015 From yesterday's federal trial court decision in Deffert v. Moe (W.D. Mich.), which held that the police didn't violate the Fourth Amendment by briefly but coercively stopping Johann Deffert, who was openly...

Besides illegally handcuffing and searching Basel M. Soukaneh, the corrupt Waterbury, Connecticut, cop Nicholas Andrzejewski also stole $320 and a flash drive from him. Fourth Amendment Forbids Handcuffing Driver Just Because He Has Gun + Gun Permit "Any contrary holding 'would eviscerate...

Tenth Circuit Appeals Court Says Fourth And Sixth Amendment Rights Are Meaningless When National Security Is On The Line 17 December 2021 A case involving the first criminal suspect to be notified by the DOJ that evidence against him was derived from Section 702 surveillance has just reached...

Augmenting the cops with armed soldiers: Texas National Guard Filmed Trespassing During Border Operations Soldiers patrolling border communities with assault rifles is the latest escalation in Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star. 17 December 2021 It was early November when Marianna...

At this point Quality Immunity prevails. Hopefully the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the appeal and side with the victims. Some cops are just too dense & stupid to be trusted with guns and badges. Cops Held Two Innocent Boys at Gunpoint, Forced Them to Lie on the Ground, Handcuffed Them, and...

Ohio Prosecuted a Taxidermist for Asking an Inspector to Come Back Later Regulators insist Fourth Amendment protections don’t apply to administrative searches. 8 December 2021 When law enforcement officers tell you they're certain that everybody is a lawbreaker, they inadvertently summarize a...

After the DEA Stole $70,000 From This Filmmaker, He Got His Money Back, Plus a $15,000 Settlement Keddins Etienne's experience shows that bullies who seize innocent people's property tend to back down when their victims put up a fight. 5 November 2021 Before a federal drug agent stole nearly...

Federal Appeals Court Denies Qualified Immunity for Police Officer Who Shot Service Dogs 15 November 2021 The lawsuit against a Minneapolis police officer who shot two service dogs in their owners’ backyard can continue, after a federal appeals court said Monday that the officer cannot claim...

If Courts Won't Protect People's Phones At The Border, Congress Needs To Act Now 26 October 2021 Invasive searches of people's phones at border crossings and international airports have become standard operating procedure for US border control agencies. The usual justifications have been...

Students Have Rights: Court Dumps Evidence After Cops Rely On A Month-Old Anonymous Tip To Search A Minor 9 November 2021 As courts seemingly have to remind school administrators (and their partners in unconstitutional crime, school police officers), students -- even minors -- still have...

SCOTUS Has Made It Practically Impossible To Sue a Rights-Violating Federal Officer 11 November 2021 Several recent Supreme Court decisions have made it practically impossible to sue a federal officer over alleged violations of constitutional rights. Now the Court has agreed to hear a case...

Lawsuit Claims Cops, Prosecutors 'Fabricated Evidence' Against BLM Protesters 14 July 2021 Over a dozen anti-police brutality protesters filed a new lawsuit on Tuesday alleging that the Phoenix Police Department and the Maricopa County Attorney's Office colluded to maliciously prosecute them...

Fifth Circuit Says Man Can't Sue Federal Agencies For Allegedly Targeting Him After He Refused To Be An FBI Informant 8 November 2021 The secrecy surrounding all things national security-related continues to thwart lawsuits alleging rights violations. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has...

Wilmington Residents File Lawsuit Challenging City’s Unconstitutional Impound Racket 22 September 2021 Wilmington contracts out its municipal impound system to private towing companies and funds the whole system by letting these companies wrongfully take and keep people’s cars. The city pays...

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...

Police Turn on Hidden Cameras, Turn Off Fourth Amendment 1 Novembber 2021 If neighbors surrounded your home with spy cameras and monitored all your comings and goings for 18 months, you might call it stalking or something worse. Yet that’s what the police did to Travis Tuggle without a...

A Drug Dog's Nose Poking Through The Open Window Of A Car Is Unconstitutional, Says Idaho's Top Court 22 October 2021 How much of a violation needs to take place before it's a Constitutional violation? It's a trick question, at least in the hands of the right judge. With the wrong judge, a...