The Justice Department has reached a settlement in what it says is the first lawsuit the Civil Rights Division has ever filed to enforce the Housing Rights Subpart of the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022, 34 U.S.C. § 12495.
The D.C. Circuit vacated preliminary injunctions that had blocked the Federal Bureau of Prisons from transferring eighteen transgender women plaintiffs to men’s facilities, ruling that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate a likelihood of success on their...
A federal judge in Nashville allowed an Eighth Amendment deliberate-indifference claim to proceed against a CoreCivic physician who never sent a badly injured inmate for a hospital-directed eye clinic follow-up, while dismissing broader claims against the...
A federal judge in Puerto Rico ruled that a fired utility worker failed to show his dismissal was driven by his refusal to participate in pro-New Progressive Party activities, granting summary judgment to the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority and two...
A Central District of Illinois judge dismissed but allowed replead of constitutional claims against a county sheriff and a private jail healthcare contractor after a detainee died of cardiac arrest following two days of untreated opioid withdrawal.
The Trump administration has filed five uninvited amicus briefs in the last 13 months urging the Supreme Court to grant review in high-profile cases, potentially shaping precedential outcomes in religious freedom, criminal law, and voting rights.
An 8-1 Supreme Court ruling holding that Colorado's ban on licensed counselors attempting to change minors' sexual orientation or gender identity is subject to strict First Amendment scrutiny has exposed a rare fracture among the court's three liberal...
Four Black women who lost their assistant principal positions in a Harford County, Maryland school district reduction-in-force could not show the process was discriminatory, the Fourth Circuit held.
Plaintiffs Elizabeth Cruz and Hilarino Aparicio allege that San Diego police officers killed Imanol Aparicio by continuing to shoot him after he was incapacitated, a result they attribute to the department’s “combat shooting” policy.
A federal judge ruled that a Cullman County deputy sheriff who pepper-sprayed a Navy veteran with PTSD and broke her arm during a handcuffing struggle did not clearly violate established Fourth Amendment law, granting summary judgment on all claims.
A federal magistrate judge held that a jail physician's failure to train or supervise nurses who missed a fatal seizure emergency did not violate clearly established law, shielding him from a civil-rights lawsuit.
A federal judge denied motions to dismiss a complaint accusing National Health Corporation and affiliated individuals of running what plaintiffs describe as a human-trafficking and forced-labor scheme targeting registered nurses recruited from the Philippines.
A Rhode Island federal judge dismissed most claims against the Bristol Police Department but kept alive a constitutional theory that a police officer made a domestic-violence victim less safe by disclosing her plans to her abuser.
A federal judge held that a Black probationary faculty member's Title VII claims against Lincoln Land Community College plausibly allege race discrimination and retaliation, but dismissed the First Amended Complaint without prejudice to allow the plaintiff...
A federal judge in the Northern District of Alabama dismissed with prejudice all civil-rights claims brought by Catheisa Holman against a City of Brent police officer, the city's mayor, and the city itself, ruling that Officer Michael Pate is shielded by...
A federal judge ruled that a pre-injury waiver signed at an Adventure Waterpark cannot shield the park's owners from a negligence suit because state regulations establish a non-waivable standard of care owed to patrons.
A federal magistrate judge in Utah has ordered Davis County and its former chief to produce underlying documents regarding other sexual harassment complaints, rejecting the defendants' claim that such production would be unduly burdensome.
A Kentucky federal judge has allowed voter-rights groups, naturalized citizens, and a county clerk to join as defendants in the Justice Department's lawsuit demanding Kentucky's complete statewide voter registration database — including names, addresses...
A divided D.C. Circuit panel issued a writ of mandamus terminating a district court's criminal contempt investigation into whether senior executive branch officials willfully violated a temporary restraining order when they transferred Venezuelan Tren de...