The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. Dannunzio | December 5, 2017
Months after a landmark federal appeals court ruling that recording police in public is protected by the First Amendment, the Pennsylvania chapter of the ACLU has settled two lawsuits against the city of Philadelphia filed by two activists claiming police retaliated against them for filming officers.
By The Associated Press | December 5, 2017
Among the surrendered items was a signed, first-edition copy of Booker T. Washington's 1901 autobiography, "Up From Slavery."
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Christopher Dunn | December 5, 2017
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties columnist Christopher Dunn writes: Given the common practice of uniformed police officers flooding courtrooms during the criminal trials of fellow officers and the fact that spectator officers undoubtedly appear in uniform for the express goal of influencing juries and judges, it is important to consider whether this display violates a defendant's right to a fair trial.
By Marcia Coyle | December 5, 2017
By the end of the arguments, the justices seemed closely divided, with those on the left deeply skeptical of the First Amendment speech claim, and those on the right more sympathetic to his religion claim. Here are highlights from Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission—what may become the term's biggest decision.
By Cogan Schneier | December 4, 2017
The Supreme Court stayed two lower courts' injunctions against the ban as the Ninth and Fourth Circuits prepare to hear oral arguments this week.
Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Michael Marciano | December 1, 2017
The Second Circuit has affirmed a New Britain man's civil rights were violated while he spent a year in solitary confinement in state prison, but in a split decision, has reversed a compensatory award of $62,650, citing qualified immunity for corrections officials.
Daily Business Review | Commentary
By Edward R. Blumberg | December 1, 2017
Those brave Americans who perished in World War II are rolling over in their graves. Buried in foreign soil and at home, they fought and defeated Nazi ideology. The eternal slumber of these heroes has been disturbed by a resurgence of America's all-time greatest enemy—Nazis.
By R. Robin McDonald | November 30, 2017
A homeless indigent man was jailed for 72 days after being charged with holding a "homeless please help" sign on a public sidewalk in Atlanta simply because he couldn't afford to pay the $200 bail required to secure his release.
By Tony Mauro | November 29, 2017
Several justices seemed troubled by the government's view that cell-site location records, like other business records, should be obtainable in criminal investigations without a warrant.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. Dannunzio | November 28, 2017
The Third Circuit has ruled that a former Pennsylvania State Police firearms instructor who allegedly disregarded multiple safety measures and ultimately shot and killed a fellow trooper during training is not immune from a lawsuit brought by the deceased trooper's mother.
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