Where a plaintiff brought claims including excessive force and civil conspiracy against two officers in an incident that arose from a traffic stop, the defendants were entitled to summary judgment on the conspiracy claim because the plaintiff did not establish ...

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Peters v. Risdal (MLW No. 67845/Case No. 14-1522 – 6 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Colloton, J.)

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Story v. Foote (MLW No. 67648/Case No. 13-2834 – 13 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Colloton, J.)

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Some plaintiff's attorneys wanted to accept a $25,000 pretrial offer for a case that claimed a woman had been illegally strip searched, unlawfully detained and discriminated, but attorney Rufus Tate overruled that option, netting his client a nearly $1 million jury award.

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Jacobson v. McCormick (MLW No. 66795/Case No. 12-3530 – 8 pages) (U. S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Colloton, J.)

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If you ask the average citizen whether a junior high school student should be subjected to a strip search by school administrators based on the suspicion that she possessed ibuprofen, I’m fairly confident the vast majority of people would reply ...

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U.S. Supreme Court justices weighed putting limits on the power of school officials, considering a clash over the strip-search of a 13-year-old girl accused of handing out prescription drugs. Hearing arguments in Washington on Tuesday, several justices said the position ...

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It’s not a strip search if you don’t have to strip. On Monday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the Bella Villa police chief didn’t violate the Fourth Amendment rights of an Overland woman when he photographed her ...

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