In a bizarre ruling, the Ninth Circuit affirmed qualified immunity for the City of Fresno and three police officers, because even if they did steal $100,000 worth of plaintiffs’ property after seizing it with a warrant, “it is not clear whether the theft of property seized pursuant to the warrant violates the Fourth Amendment.”
Read moreA September 2013 police raid on Micah Jessop and Brittan Ashjian, two Fresno businessmen suspected of running an illegal gambling ring, netted hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and rare coins that were seized as evidence. Their names were cleared, but most of that money mysteriously disappeared – and Jessop and Ashjian never saw their property again.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel ruled Thursday a federal judge should have granted qualified immunity to Fresno Police officers who shot and killed a mentally ill man because they faced what they believed was a credible threat from him. The panel declined, however, to decide wrongful-death claims.
Read moreA jury will decide whether a Fresno police officer used excessive force when he shot and killed a 45-year-old father of five, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Read moreA Fresno State professor who made world headlines last week for calling the late first lady and first mother Barbara Bush an “amazing racist” who “raised a war criminal” before the late first lady was cold, will keep her job, the university said.
Read moreA federal magistrate approved $1.2 million in attorneys’ fees and costs Tuesday for the Estate of Stephen Willis, which sued Fresno and the police officers who shot him.
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Rejecting claims from men investigated for running an illegal gambling operation, a federal judge Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Fresno police of boosting more than $100,000 in cash and collectable coins during a 2013 raid.
Read moreEight Fresno, California, residents claim their water from a treatment facility is corroding their pipelines and exposing them to toxins including lead, iron and other hazardous substances.
Read moreA Fresno County farming company sued its water district this week, claiming the district knows it uses an unfair system to elect the water board but refuses to change it.
Read moreA man wanted in the slaying of a motel security guard set out to kill as many white people as he could, gunning down three men on the streets of downtown Fresno before he was captured and admitted to the killings, the city’s police chief said Tuesday.
Read moreAn IRS employee stole $20,000 in tax refunds from people in a homeless shelter, and she’s not the only crooked IRS worker in California, federal prosecutors say.
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A married couple claim Fresno sheriff’s officers destroyed their house by using it as a training ground for a teargas-wielding SWAT team, 50 vehicles, two helicopters, a K-9 unit and a fire truck — because an unarmed homeless man had been found in their closet.
Read moreIn an unsigned, unpublished memorandum opinion, a Ninth Circuit panel directed a federal judge to hear evidence of the pain and suffering a 23-year-old man may have experienced before dying in a hail of police gunfire.
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The parents of a man shot and killed by police challenged a $330,000 wrongful death award before a Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday, while the city involved argued that any award is too big.
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