New York City has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Authorities in a southwest Louisiana school district have agreed to develop a magnet school in a...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday preserved the ability of people to sue for civil rights violations under an 1871...
Eleven people have filed a federal lawsuit saying they were assaulted by police or wrongfully arrested while peacefully observing a...
About 320 people arrested during a George Floyd protest in the Bronx on June 4, 2020, and who claim the...
The nation’s first trial over a state’s ban on gender-confirming care for children begins in Arkansas this week, the latest...

A federal jury’s $14 million award to Denver protesters hit with pepper balls and a bag filled with lead during...

Jurors found police used excessive force against protesters, violating their constitutional rights, during demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd...
An archaic Rhode Island law that says prison inmates serving life sentences are considered civilly dead in terms of their...

Efforts among a handful of states to hold police accountable for brutality and civil rights violations are expanding Thursday as...