A family may pursue excessive force claims against a school security guard who confronted a 14-year-old student as he was attempting to leave school and tased him in the abdomen. The student was not acting violently but merely attempted to walk away from the guard.
Read moreErick Diaz Cruz sued an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in federal court, claiming the agent shot him in the face at point-blank range for no discernable reason.
Read moreA man who was arrested and beaten by an off-duty police officer after a Walmart store’s loss prevention officer believed she saw him shoplifting a tomato may pursue his false imprisonment claim against the store, a Georgia appeals court ruled. The man had paid for his groceries, including the tomato, but believed he had been overcharged for the tomato and had gone back to the produce department to weigh it.
Read moreA mother who took her five young children to Six Flags Entertainment park in Vallejo, California, sued the company in Solano County Court, claiming that after being falsely accused of not paying for toppings on her children’s ice cream cones, security guards knocked her down and broke her wrist and punched her daughter in the face.
Read moreAn appeals court in New Mexico ruled that a woman who pointed a taser at a police officer and grabbed his wrist while her son was being arrested was improperly convicted of battery upon a police officer. The woman was entitled to a “defense of another instruction” against the use of excessive force directed at her son.
Read moreA man who says he lost his wallet and so could not pay a $22 cab fare sued Englewood, Colo. and three of its police officers, claiming they “mercilessly kicked, beat, punched, threw (him) into a glass cabinet, threw him face-first into broken glass, and angrily ground his face into broken glass,” then charged him with resisting arrest, in federal court.
Read moreCalifornia’s Department of Justice cannot withhold records related to officer-involved shootings, use of excessive force and other police misconduct, the First District Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday.
Read morePolice officers in an excessive force case brought by the family of Terrell Day, who died from restricted breathing while in custody, are entitled to immunity, the Seventh Circuit ruled, finding that the handcuffs were used “in a manner that would not have harmed an average arrestee” and the officers did not know they were causing the man’s breathing trouble.
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Houston’s City Council on Wednesday approved a $1.2 million settlement with the family of a black man fatally shot by a police officer, resolving litigation that exposed a pattern of cops being absolved by internal affairs investigations for shooting unarmed people.
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The new year will bring new fees for some owners of electric vehicles, as an increasing number of states seek to plug in to fresh revenue sources to offset forgone gas taxes. In Hawaii, the charge will be $50. In Kansas, $100. In Alabama and Ohio, $200.
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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to hear the case of an Albuquerque woman shot by two New Mexico State Police officers who say they opened fired because she was driving directly toward them at high speed.
Read moreParents of an 11-year-old boy sued Maury County, Tenn., its public schools and sheriff’s department, claiming school resource officer Timothy Byrdsong assaulted their son on campus, in an incident that was caught on video.
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A South Carolina officer involved in the shooting of a Myrtle Beach man – paralyzing him – after storming into his house without knocking, is not immune in an excessive-force lawsuit, the Fourth Circuit ruled Tuesday.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss a mother’s claim against Bixby, Oklahoma and its police officer who shot her unarmed 16-year-old son to death after he dismounted from an SUV that had mistakenly been reported as stolen.
Read moreA motorist who was shot in the back by a Marion County sheriff’s officer claims the department uses unreasonable, excessive force against alleged “aggressive” drivers, killing two others and wounding him, in federal court.
Read moreA federal court in Arizona ruled that an officer is not entitled to immunity in a civil rights suit brought by a party-giver. The officer, who allegedly hit the party host several times, was not in imminent danger, did not have probable cause to arrest the host and did not need to enter the home to protect anyone’s safety.
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