Jury Awards $14M in Damages to Colorado Protesters March 28, 2022 By Colleen Slevin Jurors found police used excessive force against protesters, violating their constitutional rights, during demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd...
Rhode Island Supreme Court Rules ‘Civil Death’ Law for Inmates Is Unconstitutional March 9, 2022 By Mark Pratt An archaic Rhode Island law that says prison inmates serving life sentences are considered civilly dead in terms of their...
New Mexico Opening Door to New Era of Civil Rights Lawsuits July 6, 2021 Efforts among a handful of states to hold police accountable for brutality and civil rights violations are expanding Thursday as...
North Carolina High Court Backs Students’ Constitutional Right to Sue Over Bullying June 15, 2021 By Gary D. Robertson The constitutional right of North Carolina’s children to have access to a good public school education also applies to individual...
Insurance Plays Key Role in Civil Rights Settlements Against Law Enforcement September 2, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson Municipalities, their insurers and risk pools should be heeding the current public re-examination of police and prosecutorial actions taking place...
Supreme Court Returns Racial Bias Lawsuit Against Comcast TV to Lower Court March 23, 2020 By Andrew Chung The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court’s ruling that had given the green light to comedian-turned-media...
Massachusetts Town Settles with Family of Man Killed by Police for $3.75M October 3, 2016 The town of Framingham, Mass., has reached a $3.75 million settlement with the family of a grandfather accidentally shot and...