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Appeals Civil Rights 

Fresno PD Immunity

October 26, 2018 BRIEF
Brief3, Fresno, immunity, Police Killing

A 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.

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Civil Rights Law 

Jury to Decide Traffic Violation Shooting Case

October 24, 2018October 26, 2018 MARIA DINZEO
California, Excessive Force, Fresno, jury, police shooting

A 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.

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Civil Rights Education Politics 

Abrasive Fresno State Professor Won’t Be Fired

April 25, 2018June 7, 2018 NICHOLAS IOVINO
California, college, Free Speech, Fresno, higher education, politician, race, Twitter

A 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.

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Civil Rights Personal Injury 

$1.2 Million Attorneys’ Fees

February 28, 2018February 28, 2018 ROBERT KAHN
Brief, Fresno, Police Killing, Wrongful Death

A 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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Civil Rights Courts Regional 

Fresno, Officers Must Face Wrongful Death Claims in Death of Unarmed Man

August 31, 2017 MATTHEW RENDA
Excessive Force, Fresno, police shooting, Regional2, Wrongful Death

Wrongful death and excessive force claims against two Fresno, California, police officers advance after a federal judge ruled a Latino man shot and killed by police wasn’t posing a threat or resisting arrest.

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Civil Rights Government 

Judge Says Fresno Police Need Not Return Seized Items

August 2, 2017August 9, 2017 NICK CAHILL
California, Fresno, Police, Regional1b

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.

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Environment Government Health 

Class Calls Fresno’s Water Tainted

May 19, 2017May 23, 2017 REBEKAH KEARN
California, Flint, Fresno, Michigan, pollution, Regional3, water

Eight 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.

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Civil Rights Education 

Anti-Abortion Students Say Fresno State Prof Muzzled Them

May 15, 2017May 15, 2017 REBEKAH KEARN
Abortion, California, college, Free Speech, Fresno, higher education, Law4, students

Students at Fresno State sued a professor who erased the anti-abortion messages they chalked on a campus sidewalk, then allegedly told them “college campuses are not free speech areas.”

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Government 

California Farm Fights Water District Over Elections

May 12, 2017May 15, 2017 REBEKAH KEARN
California, Fresno, Law3, water

A 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.

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Criminal 

Triple Killer Motivated by Hate, Not Terrorism

April 18, 2017May 2, 2017 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fresno, Hate Crimes, murder, Regional3, Terrorism

A 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.

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Criminal 

IRS Agents Accused of Tax Frauds

April 17, 2017April 18, 2017 REBEKAH KEARN
Fresno, IRS, Law5, Taxes

An 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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Civil Rights 

Bewildered Farmers Sue Fresno County for Overkill

March 13, 2017May 12, 2017 REBEKAH KEARN
California, Constitution, Fresno, Police, sheriffs

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.

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Civil Rights 

9th Circ. Orders New Look at Damages in Police Killing

March 3, 2017March 4, 2017 DAVE TARTRE
damages, Fresno, Ninth Circuit, Police Killing

In 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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Appeals Civil Rights 

9th Circuit Takes Second Pass at Police Shooting Case

November 16, 2016November 17, 2016 admin
Fresno, Law Enforcement, Ninth Circuit, Secondary, Wrongful Death

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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