Mississippi has banned new home health care licenses for more than 40 years, despite mounting evidence that the state's CON laws are raising prices and limiting access to care.
The applicability of Klaxon v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing -- no, wait! I promise it's important . . . .
Kelli Goode's civil suit is a case study in how difficult it can be to get state actors to take responsibility when they allegedly infringe on someone's rights.
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It was the city that put the footage in the public record in the first place.
The officers originally received qualified immunity, meaning Timpa's estate had no right to state their case before a jury.
Coercive plea deals trample on defendants' Sixth Amendment rights.
"This is not just an obvious constitutional infringement—it's hard to imagine a more textbook violation of the First Amendment."
In a lawsuit, Marc Crawford's widow says the state refused to give him his prescriptions and his chemotherapy.
In two opinions issued Monday, the Court gave qualified immunity to several police officers accused of violating the Constitution.
"It gives cities a protection that ordinary citizens never have."
Qualified immunity "does not protect an officer who inflicts deadly force on a person who is only a threat to himself."
The legal doctrine continues to render juries irrelevant.
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It's almost impossible to hold federal officers to account.
The law's "vagueness permits those in power to weaponize its enforcement against any group who wishes to express any message that the government disapproves of," Judge Mark Eaton Walker warns.
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Judge Paul Bonin profited from making defendants wear ankle monitors. The victims can't sue.
A federal court admitted the officers violated the man's rights. It doesn't matter.
Respectfully disagreeing with Josh about United States v. Texas.
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A little-known agreement allows police officers to seize packages at FedEx sorting centers.
The most powerful officers are held to the lowest standard of accountability.
The warrant affidavit made generalized accusations against U.S. Private Vaults' customers but provided no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by individuals whose assets have been seized.
Reason has joined a new legal effort seeking to force the government to unseal warrants justifying the FBI's seizure of more than 600 safe deposit boxes.
The officers might receive qualified immunity, however.
"In what legal universe is it not even plausibly unreasonable to knowingly immolate someone?" asks dissenting judge
The FBI provided "no factual basis for the seizure," Judge R. Gary Klausner wrote.
The little-known but outrageous practice allows federal judges enhance defendants' sentence based on conduct a jury acquitted them of.
Remember, the lawyer’s true superpower is to turn every question into a question about procedure.
The Supreme Court has a chance to fix this. The stakes are high.
The victim will now have no right to argue his case before a jury in civil court.
Government officials who wield land grabs to pick economic winners and losers now want to use them to kill disfavored businesses.
The boy was sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment.
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The Supreme Court delivers another blow to a victim of egregious police abuse.
"I've lost everything," says Vicki Baker.
The state used civil asset forfeiture to seize Tyson Timbs' car in 2013. His nightmare hasn't ended.
The warden at the center of the case was originally given qualified immunity.
A federal court said it did not violate her Fourth Amendment rights.
Authorities "shall destroy the videos unlawfully obtained through the surveillance of the Orchids of Asia Day Spa," a federal judge says.
The federal judiciary should not be charging for access to public court records.
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A lawsuit filed just days before the election asks federal courts to toss out all the votes already cast at drive-through polling stations in Harris County.
Judge Susan Brnovich said no reasonable person would question her impartiality just because her husband already says they're guilty.
