Showing posts with label Police conduct. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Police conduct. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Deputy Has Qualified Immunity In Suit Claiming His Failure to Intervene in Establishment Clause Violation

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 In White v. Goforth , (6th Cir., May 18, 2023), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals held that Sheriff's Deputy Jacob Goforth had qual...
Tuesday, August 09, 2022

Anti-Muslim Facebook Postings Are Subject To Pickering Balancing Test

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In Hernandez v. City of Phoenix , (9th Cir., Aug. 5, 2022), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals remanded to the district court a case in w...
Friday, April 29, 2022

11th Circuit Hears Oral Arguments In City Prayer Vigil Case

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 Yesterday, the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments ( audio of full arguments ) in  Rojas v. City of Ocala, Florida.  In...
Sunday, April 10, 2022

Deputy Sheriff May Be Liable For Failing To Stop Fellow Officer From Carrying Out Coercive Baptism

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In Riley v. Hamilton County Government , (ED TN, April 7, 2022), a Tennessee federal district court refused to dismiss an Establishment Clau...
Friday, October 08, 2021

Police Officer Who Prayed Outside Abortion Clinic Sues Over Suspension From Duty

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An officer in the Louisville, Kentucky police department this week filed suit in a Kentucky federal district court seeking damages for the D...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

10th Circuit Dismisses Objections To Attempted Search of Church

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 In Aguilera v. City of Colorado Springs,  (10th Cir., Nov. 18, 2020), the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a ci...
Thursday, October 03, 2019

Lawsuit Claims Deputy Coerced Driver To Be Baptized

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The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports on an unusual lawsuit filed this week by a woman against two Hamilton County (TN) sheriff's de...
Monday, July 01, 2019

Church Sues Over Cannabis Raid

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Redheaded Blackbelt reported yesterday: A church called Redwood Spiritual Healing Ministry filed a lawsuit Thursday, June 27 against the C...
Tuesday, October 09, 2018

Street Preacher's Suit Against Police Survives Dismissal Motion

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In Craft v. Wright ,  (D NM, Sept. 26, 2018), a New Mexico federal district court refused to dismiss a street preacher's 1st and 4th Ame...
Sunday, June 17, 2018

Police Misinformation To Parents Did Not Violate Their Religious Exercise Rights

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Estate of Manolios v. Wickersham ,  (ED MI, June 13, 2018), is a suit against Macomb County, Michigan sheriff and police officers alleging n...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Cert. Petition Filed In Suit Over Police Investigation Interference With Prayer

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A petition for certiorari ( full text ) was filed with the U.S. Supreme Court last week in Sause v. Bauer,  (cert. filed 11/17/2017).  In th...
Friday, June 23, 2017

10th Circuit: Qualified Immunity Protects Officer Who Told Suspect To Stop Praying

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In Sause v. Bauer ,  (10th Cir., June 20, 2017), the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed on qualified immunity grounds a suit for d...