Sentences with phrase «brought against a police officer»

There is an increasing number of federal and state claims brought against police officers, municipal board members and government bodies seeking damages for violations of the Federal Constitution.

Spesia & Taylor attorney Michael Stiff recently obtained complete dismissal of a Section 1983 Civil Rights claim brought against a police officer for one of the firm's governmental clients.

Spesia & Taylor attorney Michael Stiff recently obtained complete dismissal of a Section 1983 Civil Rights claim brought against a police officer... Read More

Not exact matches

After a Staten Island grand jury failed to indict a white NYPD officer in the death of Garner, a black Staten Islander, last year, critics in political and academic circles charged that local district attorneys, who often work closely with the police to prosecute crimes, are too close to law enforcement to consistently bring charges against them when they run afoul of the law.

My tires have been punctured by nails, blow torches, and wooden stakes (7 destroyed tires and counting); there have been multiple death threats, I have been beaten, robbed, defamed, sued, obstructed and even arrested and convicted on false charges brought by corrupt police officers (currently the subject of an appeal and a federal lawsuit against the three police officers involved).

Nearly two - thirds of city residents believe the Staten Island grand jury should have brought charges against police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the July death of Eric Garner, a new poll revealed.

Nearly a year after the federal Justice Department declined to bring civil rights charges against a white police officer who fatally shot a black college student in Pleasantville, Westchester County in 2010, the victim's family has agreed to a $ 6 million settlement, a lawyer for the family announced.

A Staten Island's grand jury's decision on Dec. 3rd to not bring charges against New York Police Department (NYPD) Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner drew disappointed and angry protestors...

The MFWA is thus calling on the leadership of the Ghana police Service to immediately investigate the incident and bring to book the officers who perpetrated the violent crime against the journalist.

Black Lives Matter protesters are calling for the Syracuse police officer to be fired and charges brought against him.

Councilwoman Debi Rose, a Staten Island Democrat, said tonight she was «profoundly disappointed» that a grand jury decided not to bring an indictment against the police officer who placed Eric Garner in the chokehold that many say led to his death.

In January, the Buffalo Police Benevolent Association brought union charges against the six officers who accepted lieutenant and detective promotions.

Nevertheless, the arguments are frequently crunched through, probably because of an important Illinois Supreme Court ruling from 1990 which is still good law, Rollins v. Ellwood, involving claims brought against a Baltimore police officer, among others, sounding in intentional tort for his role in the apprehension of a misidentified criminal defendant and Illinois resident in Illinois, for which the Court found the officer was not subject to Illinois jurisdiction.

In Wellington v. Ontario, the family of a young man killed by two police officers sought to bring a claim in negligence against the Special Investigations Unit for various deficiencies in their investigation of the death; their claim was dismissed based on the Court of Appeal's view that these types of claims were not grounded in any realistic duty of care given the public duties of policing bodies.

In Wellington v. Ontario, the family of a young man killed by two police officers sought to bring a claim in negligence against the Special Investigations... [more]

COMMISSAIRE À LA DÉONTOLOGIE POLICIÈRE c. D.P. et al Driving While Black — Racial Profiling Nature: Hearing into the case of Joel Debellefeuille, brought by the Police Ethics Commissioner against two officers of the Longueuil Police Service (LPS).

The article points to the most notorious recent evidence of this threat: the text messages about employee firings and extramarital sex that brought down Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and provided the smoking gun that allowed three fired police officers to win $ 8 million in their wrongful termination suit against the city.

The IOPC often has to force the police to bring disciplinary proceedings against officers.