In this clearly outrageous suit for damages for violations of a pre-trial detainee's rights stemming from deliberate indifference to his medical needs, the Circuit Court reversed a grant of summary judgment on all counts to numerous defendants.

On September 13, 2010, James Franklin Perry died on the floor of the ...

The plaintiff in this Bivens action was a man named Michael David Melton, who spent sixteen days in county jail in connection with an assault he did not commit. The only thing that linked him to this assault was the fact that he has the same first and last name ...

Back in February, 2015, the Government seized a child-pornography website in North Carolina known as “Playpen,” which was maintained on the Dark Web and which offered virtual anonymity to its many paid members through the use of special software that masked the IP addresses of the actual users. Unbeknownst to ...

Here the Court affirmed the denial of expert testimony to the effect that the defendant police officer's beating of a suspect was "consistent with departmental standards," stating it was improper opinion testimony under Rules 403 and 704(b).

Among the many police brutality cases that we have read over the years, ...

Hector Cordero, the Plaintiff in this long-running civil action for damages, was arrested on October 24, 2014 on drug charged by a group of four New York Police Department ("NYPD") officers from a special narcotics unit. He was initially charged with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Third ...

Here the Court stated that the 15-year sentence required to be given to a man lured by the Government into participating in fake stash house robbery serves “no real purpose other than to destroy any vestiges of respect for the . . . law".

In the 10-30-17 issue of P&J, ...