Body camera footage shows Pasco County deputies harassing families and threatening them with code violations because one of them was placed on a "prolific offender" list.
A class action lawsuit claims Indianapolis law enforcement is using civil asset forfeiture to seize millions in cash from packages routed through a major FedEx hub, without notifying the owners of what crime they're suspected of committing.
Despite its enormous budget and vast regulatory powers, the agency has failed to detect major frauds while wasting time and money on relatively useless disclosures.
A federal judge ruled that New York City was in violation of 18 different provisions of a court-enforced plan to clean up the infamous Rikers Island jail complex.
Copying information is not the same as copying content.
A federal court denied them the right to sue—despite Congress enacting a law five decades ago specifically for situations like this one.
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The groups are challenging a Florida law that bans some teens from social media.
Rebekah Massie's removal and arrest from a city council meeting was "objectively outrageous," the judge ruled.
Iowa has one of the most aggressive court systems in the country when it comes to billing defendants for court-appointed attorneys, even in cases where they're acquitted or charges are dropped.
"Invoking the innocence of children is not...a magic incantation sufficient for legislatures to run roughshod over the First Amendment rights of adults."
Due to North Carolina's lack of an anti-SLAPP law, the defendants will have to defend themselves in court.
South Carolina bans all media interviews with incarcerated people, a policy the state's ACLU chapter says is the most restrictive in the country and infringes on its First Amendment rights.
Daniel Horwitz often represents people illegally silenced by the government. This time he says a court violated his First Amendment rights when it gagged him from publicly speaking about a troubled state prison.
A federal judge ruled that the law was overbroad and violated the First Amendment.
A federal judge rejected the officers' claims of qualified immunity.
The Reason Foundation filed a FOIA lawsuit last year seeking reviews of deaths at two federal women's prisons with numerous allegations of medical neglect.
Rebekah Massie criticized a proposed pay raise for a city attorney. When she refused to stop, citing her First Amendment rights, the mayor had her arrested.
Priscilla Villarreal, known as "Lagordiloca," is suing law enforcement for violating her First Amendment rights. She is appealing to the Supreme Court.
Since when do government officials get to decide that a market is “oversaturated”?
Susan Hogarth posted a photo of her primary ballot. In North Carolina, that's against the law.
Judge Kenneth King is facing a lawsuit for punishing a 15-year-old who visited his courtroom with his "own version of Scared Straight.''
The ban was "enacted with the express purpose of insulating Florida agricultural businesses from innovative, out-of-state competition," according to the suit.
Repeat offenders accounted for over 40 percent of the hefty cost.
Thus far, the courts have barred Curtrina Martin from asking a jury for damages. She is appealing to the Supreme Court.
The NIH had been deleting all social media comments containing words like animal, testing, and cruel.
The Supreme Court created, then gutted, a right to sue federal agents for civil rights violations.
Last year, one prison's temperatures stayed above 100 degrees for 11 days.
Nina Jankowicz finds out the truth may hurt, but it isn’t lawsuit bait.
Robert Williams was arrested in 2020 after facial recognition software incorrectly identified him as the person responsible for a Detroit-area shoplifting incident.
The SAVE plan would have dramatically reduced the amount borrowers were required to pay back before receiving forgiveness—and cost taxpayers almost $500 billion over the next decade.
However distasteful, the First Amendment protects a citizen’s right to give a police officer the middle finger.
"In short, 'cruel and unusual' is not the same as 'harmful and unfair,'" the court wrote.
After police detained Benjamin Hendren, they urged construction workers to lie about him.
Officers should have known that handcuffing a compliant 10-year-old is unnecessary, the court ruled.
A federal appeals court ruled that the government is not immune from a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed by foreign students duped into enrolling into a fake school run by ICE.
The doctrine makes it nearly impossible for victims of prosecutorial misconduct to get recourse.
"This is an obvious attempt to use our public schools to convert kids to Christianity. We live in a democracy, not a theocracy," one ACLU attorney tells Reason.
The decision reverses the Court's previous stay of a lower court decision blocking part of the law.
The case hinged upon the idea of what a publicly funded school can teach. But parents do have a role to play in that conversation.
X's child porn detection system doesn’t violate an Illinois biometric privacy law, the judge ruled.
As Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted during oral arguments, the right to sell a shirt is different from the right to be the only one who can sell that shirt.
The court ruled that it is unconstitutional for officials to remove library books with the "intent to deprive patrons of access to ideas with which they disagree."
The plaintiffs hope to "help Republicans and conservatives see why this ban is inconsistent with the free speech values they say they care about."
The transit authority was sued after rejecting an ad that directed viewers to go to a website "to find out about the faith of our founders."
Yareni Rios was severely injured after a train struck a police car she had been placed in after being arrested in 2022.
The town of Sturgeon initially defended the officer, saying he was afraid of being bitten by the 13-pound blind and deaf Shih Tzu.
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