If a person is convicted of a crime in state court, they can petition a federal court for relief by claiming that their conviction violates the federal constitution. Rather, the Antiterrorism and ...

The Supreme Court's emergency docket ruling in Mirabelli and denial of certiorari in Foote will send conflicting signals. On the one hand, the Court blocked California's policy on the shadow docket.

Washington, DC, Nov. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief today urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear NRA v. Vullo and reexamine the Court’s ...

Section 1983 affords a judicial remedy to individuals who suffered deprivations of federal constitutional rights by state and local officials. And yet, in case after case, §1983 plaintiffs who were ...

In 2016, Kodi Gaines, then 5, was seriously wounded by a Baltimore County police corporal who was, the corporal later explained, “hot” and “frustrated” during a six-hour standoff on a sweltering ...

Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit that permitted a civil rights suit to move forward against a Vermont police officer who allegedly ...

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has rejected a Jan. 6 defendant's excessive force claim against two members of law enforcement on the basis of qualified immunity. In March 2021, Victoria White ...