The United States Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case over whether to make it easier to hold municipalities liable for civil rights violations committed by their police, rejecting an appeal involving a man fatally shot by an officer in Ohio.
The justices turned away the appeal filed by the mother of a 23-year-old man named Luke Stewart of a lower court ruling that threw out her claims made under federal law in a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Euclid and an officer involved in the 2017 incident.
Matthew Rhodes, the officer who shot Stewart in the chest and neck at close range, avoided liability for those claims through a legal defence called qualified immunity, even though the lower court determined that a jury might find that he unlawfully used excessive force.
It s obviously discouraging that the Supreme Court failed to take them up,” said Anya Bidwell, an attorney with the Institute for Justice, which represented the man who sued federal police in the Texas case. We are planning on continuously bringing these kinds of cases to the United States Supreme Court, and one day they really will have no choice but to confront this question.
José Oliva, a retired Department of Homeland Security employee, was handcuffed and thrown to the ground in 2016 after an altercation with federal police in the security line at a Veterans Affairs hospital in El Paso, Texas. The incident began when officers asked Oliva to show his identification and the 70-year-old Vietnam veteran responded that he had placed it in a bin with his other personal belongings to be scanned.
Personal jurisdiction is perhaps one of the most complicated areas in litigation. Each successive case since International Shoe Co. v. Washington, seems to create more new questions.
Ernest Lee Johnson
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States Supreme Court denied a petition Monday by a Columbia man seeking the firing squad as the method for his execution.
Ernest Lee Johnson has been on death row since he was convicted of killing three people with a hammer at a Columbia gas station in 1994.Â
In 2016, he filed an appeal related to his pending execution, saying a medical condition would make death by lethal injection unusually painful. Johnson, who has epilepsy related to a brain tumor and injury, said the injection - which is Missouri s chosen execution method - would cause excruciating seizures.
The United States Supreme Court has issued two new opinions.
In
United States v. Palomar-Santiago the court held that each of 8 U. S. C. §1326(d)’s statutory requirements for bringing a collateral attack on a prior deportation order is mandatory.
In
Guam v. United States the court held that a settlement of environmental liabilities must resolve a specific liability under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to give rise to a contribution action under that Act. Powered by Distribution channels: EIN Presswire does not exercise editorial control over third-party content provided, uploaded, published, or distributed by users of EIN Presswire. We are a distributor, not a publisher, of 3rd party content. Such content may contain the views, opinions, statements, offers, and other material of the respective users, suppliers, participants, or authors.