In a report (PDF) released Thursday, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice said police in Cleveland have a pattern of using unreasonable force, sometimes endorsed…
Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s nominee for attorney general, will lead the federal civil rights investigation into the chokehold death of Eric Garner.
The Denver City Council agreed Monday to pay $337,250 to settle federal civil rights litigation brought by three men who were arrested and jailed after being mistaken for someone else.
A Texas law that allows law enforcement officers to test drivers for alcohol use without their consent and without a warrant is unconstitutional, the state’s top criminal court said in…
Two police officers in Hammond, Indiana, who were involved in a chaotic arrest after stopping a car because the driver and a front-seat passenger weren’t wearing seat belts, have been…
Size does matter when it comes to executing arrest warrants. However, a federal judge gave short shrift to a civil rights suit claiming that law enforcement officers falsely arrested a…
Lawyers from around the country are headed to Ferguson, Missouri, in order to be on hand to help out if police and citizens clash after a grand jury decision is…
A federal appeals court in Chicago has tossed U.S. District Judge Milton Shadur from a sex-bias case in part because of a “tone of derision” in his opinion.
A plan to equip more than 1,000 police officers in Seattle with body cameras may not fly, due to the potential cost of citizen public records requests, officials say.
Agreeing with a trial judge, a federal appeals court has refused to enforce provisions of a California ballot measure that require registered sex offenders to provide law enforcement with all…
A Utah woman persuaded state officials to let her get her driver’s license photo taken with a metal pasta strainer upside-down on her head by citing her “Pastafarian” religious beliefs.
An associate at a Pennsylvania law firm is suing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, contending that a machine gun he made…
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