The lawsuit alleges the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility concealed evidence of leaks and mold before inspections ...

The Colorado-based federal appeals court sided with two Denver police officers on Tuesday, finding they were entitled to ...

A court rejected the officer's claim of qualified immunity, the much-debated legal doctrine that can shield police officers ...

Grisham was removed from commissioners court sessions in January for carrying a firearm and saying expletives during public ...

The Miami saga played out on two fronts. Scott reported the theft at 5:40 p.m., dispatchers released a bulletin about the ...

Alexandra Weaver argued that she could not reasonably have been expected to know that her actions were unconstitutional.

A three-member panel of U.S. Appeals Court judges said a Coralville police officer had qualified immunity when he shot a man ...

A federal judge ruled a lawsuit can proceed against a Harris County deputy accused of using excessive force and falsifying ...

A federal judge has given state Superintendent Ryan Walters a legal win in a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed by a former ...

U.S. District Judge Joel H. Slomsky ruled that the “individual defendants should have known that there was no probable cause ...

Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, known formally as 42 U.S.C. §1983, is a federal law that allows for the suing ...

McKenzie, 58, was charged by the Portsmouth Police Department with sexual assault and simple assault of a minor at Gibbs ...