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Showing posts with label police. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Police reform shines light on disciplinary records

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CC0 Pixabay via picryl A favorable reform to follow the police protest movement of recent years, stemming in particular from the killing of...
Monday, May 22, 2023

DA cannot shield officer, EMT identities from state FOIA disclosure, court rules in fatal police shooting

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A Massachusetts Superior Court in March ordered the district attorney to release investigative records to the family of a man killed by poli...
Friday, May 19, 2023

NYPD seizes adorable dog, person too, in retaliation for video-recording in public, attorney-plaintiff alleges

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A New York legal aid attorney was arrested, along with her dog, when she started video-recording police, and then she sued for civil rights ...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Citizens defeat attack on state transparency law

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A bill that would have gutted the state Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was defeated in committee in the Arkansas House on March 29. A mo...
Friday, October 7, 2022

Reversal in eldercare case highlights limits of qualified immunity, low injury threshold of intentional torts

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Boston police officer assists an elderly pedestrian in 2014. (Alex Klavens CC BY 2.0 via Flickr ) A dispute over elder care occasioned trea...
Friday, July 22, 2022

Court denies police immunity under state tort claims act in death of intoxicated man in protective custody

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Michael Coghlan CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons In a lawsuit over the death of an intoxicated man in police protective custody, the defe...
Monday, July 18, 2022

Police negligence suit against BLM organizer goes ahead after La. Supreme Court greenlights duty

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BLM protest in Baton Rouge in 2015 (Alisdare Hickson CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr ) A lawsuit against Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesso...
Thursday, July 14, 2022

Horn-blowing law survives First Amendment challenge

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Image by allispossible.org.uk CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr A citation for unreasonable horn-blowing is not defective under the First Amendmen...
Friday, July 8, 2022

Judge excoriates city in public records row

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Worcester, Mass., City Hall (Mass. Office of Travel & Tourism CC BY-ND 2.0 via Flickr ) In a remarkable opinion in January 2022, the Ma...
Sunday, July 3, 2022

Miami Beach looks like a police state; Ocean Avenue shootings happened anyway

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In March, I visited Miami Beach and found it to have the feel of a police state. Uvalde and the shortly subsequent widely reported shootings...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Hospital BAC disclosure prompts tort privacy claims

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Photo by Marco Verch ( CC BY 2.0 ) The federal district court in Montana in December refused to dismiss an informational privacy claim ag...
Friday, January 21, 2022

SCOTUS lets stand First Amendment protection of citizen newsgathering via secret recording of police

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Pixabay by Bruce Emmerling Denying review in November 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand court decisions declaring the Massachusetts w...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Family in fatal police shooting demands transparency

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Fall River Police Department Photo by Kenneth C. Zirkel ( CC BY-SA 4.0 ) At a rally in Fall River, Mass., on January 15, the family of Ant...
Monday, October 25, 2021

Incarcerated persons have access to information in Massachusetts law, court confirms, but not in all states

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Image by Ichigo121212 from Pixabay A man imprisoned for murder has a right of access to public records no less than anyone else, the Mas...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Student comment calls on police unions to do their part for accountability reform, revelation of truth

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Michelle M.K. Hatfield , an alum of my Torts I-II classes, has published a comment, Can Police Unions Help Change American Policing?    This...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Collateral to drug-testing race discrimination suit, Boston wins chance to demand indemnity by lab

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National Archives Is hair-follicle drug testing racially discriminatory? That was not the question before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial...