The Eleventh Circuit held that five Georgia prison officials were entitled to qualified immunity in a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from an inmate's fatal stabbing by a gang member.
The Seventh Circuit held that nine minors failed to state a viable substantive due process claim against Illinois police officers who gave an auxiliary officer access to their sexually explicit images during a child pornography investigation.
The Fourth Circuit vacated summary judgment for a Fairfax County police sergeant who shot an unarmed drug suspect through the back of his car after directing detectives to ram the vehicle, ruling that genuine factual disputes existed on both the vehicular f...