u.s. district court

Ex-Federal Correctional Officer Now on ‘Other Side of the Bars’ for Saying He ‘Never Had Sexual Contact’ with Inmate He Engaged in Sex Acts with 35 Times 16 August 2022 A 54-year-old former federal correctional officer the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles was sentenced to time...

For 20 Years, This Prosecutor Had a Secret Job Working For the Judges Who'd Decide His Cases One of Ralph Petty's victims is trying to hold him accountable, but she will have to overcome prosecutorial immunity. 12 April 2022 Ralph Petty worked as an assistant district attorney in Midland...

'Geofence Warrant' for All Cell Location Data From Area Near Robbery Is Ruled Unconstitutional Plus: New rules on sex discrimination in education, economists warn of housing market exuberance, and more... 1 April 2022 "Geofence warrant" was unconstitutional, says judge. Can the cops use...

A Federal Judge Says a Victim of Retaliatory Prosecution Can Sue a Cop Who Treated Criticism As a Crime An Arkansas police officer used trumped-up charges to punish a man who criticized him for violating the Constitution. 31 March 2022 Four years ago, Grant Long, a resident of Forrest City...

This Jail Won't Provide Drug Addicts With Essential Meds Inmates with opioid addiction suffered severe withdrawal after the Jefferson County Correctional Facility stripped them of their medication. 22 March 2022 The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) filed a class action lawsuit this...

A Federal Lawsuit Challenges Blatantly Unconstitutional Anti-Crime Checkpoints in Jackson, Mississippi "You can't treat everyone like a criminal to find the criminals," an outraged driver says. In Jackson, apparently you can. 25 February 2022 Archie Skiffer Jr., who lives in Mendenhall...

Appeals Court Rules Ohio Cops Didn't Have Cause To Arrest Man Wearing 'Fuck the Police' Shirt The sheriff's deputies are also not entitled to qualified immunity because the First Amendment right to offend police has been repeatedly upheld. 9 February 2022 Sheriff's deputies in Ohio didn't...

D.C. Cops Conspired to Keep Records From Reporters, Activists, and Critics, Says Lawsuit Defense lawyer Amy Phillips is suing over what she calls the department's "watchlist policy." 3 February 2022 Did D.C. cops conspire to keep damning information from people and groups critical of them...

Westminster police threw 78-year-old to the ground and shocked him with Taser, lawsuit alleges Clayton Shriver alleges he was shocked with Taser during 2020 arrest to the point of “significant bleeding” 19 January 2022 Westminster police threw a 78-year-old man to the ground inside a Walmart...

Former Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer & murderer Shannon Kepler Ex-Oklahoma Officer Is Sentenced in Killing of Daughter’s Boyfriend Shannon Kepler, who had served as a police officer in Tulsa for 24 years, was tried five times before a federal jury found him guilty of the 2014 murder of...

Judge: Baton Rouge Violated the First Amendment by Trying To Imprison a Professor for Sharing Body Camera Footage It was the city that put the footage in the public record in the first place. 10 January 2022 The city of Baton Rouge tried to throw a law professor in prison after he shared...

Court Finally Strips Cops of Qualified Immunity for Laughing as They Killed Handcuffed Innocent Man 31 December 2021 As TFTP previously reported, on the night of Aug. 10, 2016, Tony Timpa called 911 asking police to help him because he had a history of mental illness and he was off his...

Video of 'Fight Night' at Rikers Jail Leads Judge to Find Cruel and Unusual Punishment A New York state judge found video of guards ceding control of Rikers to gang leaders more than enough evidence to order the release of a pretrial inmate. 28 December 2021 A New York state judge ordered a...

WATCH: ‘You Have No Light!’—Cops Shatter Innocent Man’s Leg for Missing Bicycle Light 20 December 2021 In the land of the free, police can and will detain and extort you for improper bicycle lighting. If you try to escape this extortion, you can be mowed down by a police cruiser, mauled by a...

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...

Mexican woman shot in head by US Border Patrol files claim: ‘I am looking for justice’ Marisol García Alcántara was shot shortly after arriving in the US, while riding in an SUV in Arizona 15 December 2021 Attorneys for a Mexican woman who was shot in the head by a Border Patrol agent and...

Hawaii Man Who Was Mistaken for Someone Else and Locked Up for Over Two Years and Drugged ‘Until He Became Catatonic’ Files Federal Lawsuit 23 November 2021 A man who spent more than two years locked up in a Hawaii state mental institution in an alleged case of mistaken identity has filed a...

Hawaii Cop Who Asked Detainee for Sex in Exchange for 'F***ing Up' Testimony Gets 30 Months 4 November 2021 A Hawaii police officer accused of asking a woman he arrested for sex in exchange for providing false testimony at trial was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison. Brandon Saffeels...

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...

Jeffrey Overton Arizona Police Broke into Unarmed Schizophrenic Woman’s Home with Guns Drawn and Tased Her in Her Own Bedroom: Lawsuit 29 September 2021 A trio of police officers in Arizona broke into the home of a woman they knew was mentally ill, held her at gunpoint, and tased her while...