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8 Mar 2024, 5:15 am by Daniel Spiegel
Meanwhile, the city of Ferguson, Missouri, has reached a class-action settlement with ArchCity Defenders, agreeing to pay 4.5 million dollars to more than 15,000 people who were jailed for failure to pay fines, fees, and various court costs. [read post]
30 Nov 2023, 4:50 am by John Elwood
ShareThe Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. [read post]
7 Jul 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Newly obtained emails reveal how the relationship between Kapoor and the mayor’s office began years before the aide made a call to the city’s zoning director, who ultimately overrode a code requirement. [read post]
29 Jun 2023, 7:49 am by Public Employment Law Press
On June 29, 2023 the Supreme Court held that colleges and universities making "admission decisions" that relied, in part, on racial considerations violated the Constitution of the United States. [read post]
29 Jun 2023, 7:49 am by Public Employment Law Press
On June 29, 2023 the Supreme Court held that colleges and universities making "admission decisions" that relied, in part, on racial considerations violated the Constitution of the United States. [read post]
27 Feb 2023, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
After the killing of Michael Brown by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer, in 2016, the Department and the City of Ferguson agreed to a consent decree that bars Ferguson police officers from conducting pretext stops. [read post]
9 Feb 2023, 5:01 am by Vida B. Johnson
For example, the Department of Justice reported that the fines and fees collected in relation to traffic enforcement in Ferguson, Missouri, where Michael Brown was killed by police, subsidized much of the city government there. [read post]
31 Dec 2022, 8:22 am by John Floyd
Quotas foster harassment by police within marginalized communities that have little political capital; for example, they contributed to disproportionately high ticketing and arrests of Black residents in Ferguson, Missouri. [read post]
6 Dec 2022, 3:45 am by Kyle Hulehan
The cigarette taxes in America’s third-largest city are the highest in the county. [read post]
28 Oct 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Thornton recently filed a lawsuit against Bullhead City, accusing the officers of violating her civil rights. [read post]
7 Oct 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Arkansas – Missouri Health Executives Plead Guilty in Widespread Fraud Stamford Advocate – Associated Press | Published: 9/29/2022 Two former executives of a Missouri health nonprofit pleaded guilty to their roles in a corruption scheme that ensnared several Arkansas elected officials and lobbyists, federal prosecutors said. [read post]
26 Aug 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal An Unusual $1.6 Billion Donation Bolsters Conservatives Seattle Times – Kenneth Vogel and Shane Goldmacher (New York Times) | Published: 8/22/2022 A new conservative group received $1.6 billion from one donor, which among the largest – if not the largest – single contributions ever made to a politically focused nonprofit. [read post]
18 Jun 2022, 7:28 am by John Floyd
  Organizing responses to the unjustified killings of two Black men in 2014, Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland by white police officers made Black Lives Matter a household name. [read post]
29 May 2022, 8:41 am by John Floyd
The tragic shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in 2015 by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, triggered nationwide protests and the eventual trend to elect “reform-minded” district attorneys to deal with countless inequities in the country’s criminal justice system. [read post]
22 Feb 2022, 7:45 am by Eugene Volokh
What the Justice Department found to be true in Ferguson, Missouri, is true throughout the country. [read post]
22 Jan 2022, 10:15 am by John Floyd
” They gained national prominence in 2015 when they provided vigilante “security” to white-owned businesses in Ferguson, Missouri, during Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of the Michael Brown killing by a local police officer. [read post]