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10 Mar 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
” I do not explore the “Ferguson effect” in Shielded because, as Schuck notes, it is a theory about the chilling effects of internal discipline and public criticism—not litigation. [read post]
5 Mar 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  For example, suits against the city that employs and supervises the police are limited by the “official policy or custom” requirement under which plaintiffs must show the city’s “deliberate indifference” to citizens’ rights. [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]
23 Feb 2023, 9:47 am by Reference Staff
’California Secretary of State Shirley Weber was the lead author of the California bill passed in 2020 to establish a Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, the first statewide effort to examine reparations.Local actions are also taking place in San Francisco, Providence, Boston, Asheville and other cities. [read post]
9 Feb 2023, 5:01 am by Vida B. Johnson
The Department of Justice reports in Chicago, Ferguson, and Baltimore made plain that police commonly used offensive language and even racial slurs in those cities when describing or addressing people of color. [read post]
31 Dec 2022, 8:22 am by John Floyd
Only 1 percent of 911 calls in major cities are to report violent crimes in progress, and less than a third involve life-threatening situations, according to the Vera Institute. [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]
3 Dec 2022, 9:13 am by Tom Smith
via www.city-journal.org As Niall Ferguson has pointed out, this situation isn't really recoverable. [read post]
20 Nov 2022, 9:53 am by David Kopel
" It was forbidden to use such arms in a fight in a city, town, or other public place. [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]
21 Oct 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Activists Push for Disclosure of Clients and Income of Judges’ Spouses MSN – Hailey Fuchs (Politico) | Published: 10/20/2022 A coalition of judicial advocacy and watchdog groups are calling on Congress to establish greater disclosure requirements for the spouses of federal judges. [read post]
7 Oct 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
A jury found him not guilty, and he is trying to sue the city for damages. [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]
6 Aug 2022, 7:25 am by Ilya Somin
Ferguson (1896), which had approved "separate but equal" public facilities for different races. [read post]
27 Jul 2022, 10:35 am by Guest Author
Ferguson, the administration of overseas territories acquired during the Spanish American War—including, in particular, the adjudication of the legal status of the inhabitants of the Philippines and Puerto Rico—the segregation of the federal civil service by the Wilson administration, the imprisonment of critics of U. [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]