Seven incarcerated firefighters from Nevada are suing state forestry and prison officials who they allege mocked and ignored burn injuries the prisoners received in April 2021 in a wildfire area carpeted by hot soil and burning embers.

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A North Carolina sheriff's office announced a $3 million settlement on Monday in a lawsuit filed by the family of an unarmed Black man who was shot and killed in his car by sheriff’s deputies more than a year ago.

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Plaintiff appealed from the grant of judgment on the pleadings to defendant county, finding plaintiff had a duty to defend the county against a civil rights lawsuit filed against the county by Russell Faria, who had been wrongly arrested and ...

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A federal appeals court affirmed the dismissal of a civil rights suit by a former Missouri Highway Patrol sergeant who spoke out against the patrol after a man drowned while in custody. Randy Henry had sued eleven members of the ...

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The off-duty Kansas City Police Department detective who arrested a Kansas activist at a Kansas City Public Library event in 2016 is entitled to qualified immunity, a federal judge ruled before throwing out counts against him. In a Jan. 30 ...

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The man at the center of a precedent-setting Missouri Supreme Court decision on board bills has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the county that charged him for his incarceration and jailed him again when he could not pay those ...

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Eight years ago, Henry Hamilton got into an altercation with an apartment manager in the small Missouri town of Hayti. The manager’s boyfriend arrested him. The manager’s mother set a cash bond he couldn’t pay. And the town judge failed ...

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St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner on Monday filed what she called an unprecedented federal civil rights lawsuit, accusing the city, the local police union and others of a coordinated and racist conspiracy aimed at forcing her out of office. ...

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St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner on Monday filed what she called an unprecedented federal civil rights lawsuit, accusing the city, the local police union and others of a coordinated and racist conspiracy aimed at forcing her out of office. ...

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