Protesters Challenge Ejection From Ham Breakfast
A group of protesters removed from a country ham breakfast at the 2015 Kentucky State Fair challenged their arrests as unconstitutional before the Sixth Circuit on Thursday.
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Women Sue Ohio Cops Over Stormy Daniels Sting
Two female employees at the Ohio nightclub where Stormy Daniels was arrested during the summer sued police vice officers Tuesday, claiming they were used as cover for the porn star’s politically motivated arrest.
Read moreDetroit Cops Denied Immunity in False Arrest Case
A Michigan man jailed for two years for attempted murder and later exonerated because of a Facebook-backed alibi prevailed Wednesday in a civil case against Detroit police officers who had asked a judge not to find them liable for falsely arresting him.
Read moreBaltimore Exonerees Accuse Police of Corruption
Two men who fled from unmarked police claim in a federal complaint that they spent years in prison because officers planted drugs on them to avoid liability for an innocent bystander’s death in the chase.
Read moreEx-Police Chief Accused of Orchestrating False Arrest
A former Florida police chief has been charged with allegedly pinning a string of thefts on a sixteen-year-old in an effort to keep up the appearance that his police department had a flawless burglary prosecution rate.
Read moreCop Cleared of Murder Charge Sues Prosecutor & Police
A former St. Louis police officer whose acquittal on a murder charge last September led to protests sued the city’s former circuit attorney and an internal affairs detective Wednesday for malicious prosecution and defamation.
Read moreFormer Utah AG Files $60M Lawsuit Against FBI, Salt Lake Prosecutor
Former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff filed a $60 million federal lawsuit Wednesday, alleging prosecutors, police and the FBI violated his rights during a 2014 bribery and corruption investigation that brought five felony charges against him.
Read moreNew York Post Under Fire After Courthouse Scuffle
A convicted embezzler whose courthouse appearances led to a series of tabloid spreads filed suit Wednesday against a photographer he says used a camera to bludgeon him.
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Despite misgivings at a hearing last month, a Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday declined to revive malicious prosecution claims brought by former Hmong rebels who had been suspected by U.S. authorities of plotting to overthrow the communist government of Laos.
Read more9th Circuit Debates Reviving Hmong Exiles’ Suit Against US
A lawsuit claiming the United States maliciously prosecuted former Hmong rebels suspected of plotting to overthrow the communist government of Laos may have been unfairly dismissed, a Ninth Circuit panel suggested Tuesday.
Read moreChicago Cops Accused of Ruining Black Man’s Wedding Day
An Illinois man claims three intoxicated, on-duty Chicago cops made racist comments and attacked him and his fiancée in a City Hall elevator, landing the man in jail on what was supposed to be his wedding day.
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Feds Duck Challenge Over Hedge Fund’s Collapse
The Second Circuit booted a lawsuit Tuesday by the owner of a Wall Street hedge fund whose billion-dollar business was bankrupted by a government crackdown on insider trading.
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PA’s Ex-Governor Corbett Clears Suit by ‘Computergate’ Target
Rejecting prosecutorial-abuse claims from a former legislative staffer snared in Pennsylvania’s 2009 Computergate scandal, the Third Circuit cleared a host of officials Monday including Tom Corbett, the state’s former attorney general and governor.
Read moreWinklevoss Twins Claim Defamation in Failed Pot-App Deal
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, twins best known for claiming they created Facebook only to have Mark Zuckerberg steal it from under them, now say a New York businessman smeared them after a deal to buy his shares in a marijuana-delivery startup fell through.
Read moreWoman Sues Cops After Court Overturns Shaken-Baby Conviction
A former day care worker who was freed last year after spending almost a decade in prison on charges that she killed a baby claims police and a state’s witness fabricated a report finding that the baby died of shaken-baby syndrome.
Read moreLawyers Duck Blame for Case Brought in Bad Faith
Thermal imaging company FLIR Systems may have brought a trade secrets case against two of its former executives in bad faith, but that doesn’t mean its lawyers are to blame according to California’s highest court.
Read moreClass Blasts Baltimore Police for Arrests at Arts Festival
Protesters arrested after blocking traffic on a highway that runs through downtown Baltimore last year during an arts festival filed a class-action lawsuit claiming they were detained on bogus charges and subjected to atrocious conditions.
Read morePA Officials Rapped on Overdose-Immunity Law
Rushed to the hospital for a heroin overdose, a Pennsylvania woman claims in a federal complaint that officials flouted a year-old overdose-immunity law by trying to prosecute her.
Read moreEx-Death Row Inmate Blames Conviction on Gay ‘Witch Hunt’
Former death row inmate Kerry Max Cook, wrongfully convicted of a brutal rape and murder in East Texas decades ago, claims in a federal lawsuit that it’s time for police officers who investigated the case to pay for their extreme misconduct, including fabricating evidence and coercing witness testimony.
Read moreCalifornia Justices Consider Bad Faith in Malicious Prosecution Case
No lawyer wants to find themselves being sued for malicious prosecution simply for doing their job, but Latham & Watkins – accused of bringing specious trade secrets claims against a client’s former employees – says they’re protected because their clients still won an important ruling, even though they ultimately lost and were later found to have brought their case in bad faith.
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