Jurors awarded more than three quarters of a million dollars to a Kansas City visitor who alleged battery and false imprisonment after being wrestled to the ground by a security guard.

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The family of an unarmed man who was shot and killed by Kansas City police reached a $1.5 million settlement with the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners.

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A Kansas prisoner alleges in a federal lawsuit that the state Department of Corrections is not providing him with proper treatment for terminal cancer.

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The Justice Department on Wednesday announced it's investigating whether Missouri has violated civil rights laws by institutionalizing adults with severe mental illnesses.

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Kansas City will pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of an unarmed Black man who was fatally shot by a police officer in 2019.

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Civil rights activists sued Missouri on Wednesday over a decades-old law that prohibits volunteers from offering ballot-booth help to multiple voters who have physical disabilities or are unable to read or write.

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A federal jury in Kansas City awarded $20 million to four women who alleged they were assaulted by a correctional officer while they were inmates at the Chillicothe Correctional Center.

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A man convicted and then acquitted of murdering his wife reached a $2.05 million settlement in a civil rights suit against a group of Lincoln County law enforcement officials. Former murder suspect Russ Faria initially was convicted of the Dec. ...

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A fired suburban St. Louis police officer who is accused of shoving and choking a prisoner inside a booking area while a surveillance camera was rolling has been charged with a federal civil rights offense. Robert Ryan Watson, who was ...

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Where an appellant challenged the dismissal of his civil-rights action, the judgment is affirmed because the district court properly found that the claims were time barred, and the appellant failed to allege sufficient facts to support a plausible claim. Judgment ...

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Plaintiff appealed the district court’s order granting summary judgment to defendants, dismissing plaintiff’s claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and 42 U.S.C. §1983. Where the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to plaintiff, entitled defendants ...

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