Five police officers, the individual defendants in this case, appeal the district
court’s denial of their motion to dismiss, based on qualified immunity, five of the six
claims asserted against them by Michael Valdez under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985, and
1986. We exercise jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and reverse.
I. Background
The following facts are alleged in the amended ... More...   $0 (03-13-2017 - CO)

Houston, TX - Maranda Lynn O'Donnell and other sued Harris County and others on a civil rights violation theory under 42 U.S.C. 1983 claiming that her 14th Amendment rights were violated when she was held in the Harris County jail for no other reason than the fact that she was too poor to obtain a bail bond.

Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, a named defendant, testified for the Plaintiffs claiming th... More...   $0 (03-10-2017 - TX)

INTRODUCTION
¶1 A jury convicted defendant Anthony James Prater of
aggravated murder and obstructing justice, both first-degree
felonies. The jury also convicted Prater on five counts of discharging
a firearm from a vehicle, a third-degree felony. At trial, three
witnesses testified that Prater confessed to the crime, and one
witness testified that he was there when Prater ... More...   $0 (03-09-2017 - )

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Defendants Louis Adams and Kenneth Green were convicted of
the first-degree armed robbery of a... More...   $0 (03-08-2017 - NJ)

In 2010, defendant William R. Joe was arrested in New
Jersey and charged with certain narcotics offenses. Before
trial, he fled the state and a bench warrant was issued for his
arrest. Defendant was subsequently arrested and charged with
other crimes in New York State. He did not make bail in New
York.
Although New Jersey prosecutors lodged an interstate
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On October 17, 2013, plaintiff Rosbil Nunez-Aguirre, a 35-year-old construction laborer, and a co-worker were installing bracket scaffolding at a house under construction. Bracket scaffolding is mounted on the side of a building under construction, rather than being built from the ground up like traditional scaffolding. Multiple brackets are attached to the framing of the building, and then wooden... More...   $0 (03-06-2017 - CA)

Josephine Douglas-Peters1 appeals the trial court’s final judgment in favor of Forest Law, P.C. d/b/a Cho, Choe & Holen, P.C.,2 as assignee of Choe, Holen, Yoo & Burchfiel, P.C.,3 on its claim against Douglas-Peters for breach of a legal representation retainer agreement and awarding it $90,453.21 in damages. Douglas-Peters raises four issues on appeal, arguing: (1) the evidence is legally and fac... More...   $0 (03-03-2017 - TX)

Boise City, OK - The State of Oklahoma charged James Robert Crane with:

1. POSSESSION OF CDS WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE (FELONY)

2. POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE

3. POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE

4. POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE

5. UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA

6. POSSESSIO... More...   $0 (03-01-2017 - OK)

Shaquita Sawyer testified that on August 4, 2014, she, Chazmon Gipson,
and another friend had just returned to the Cambridge Court Apartments from
buying breakfast when she saw Knight jogging toward the truck the three were
exiting. According to Sawyer, Knight pointed a black handgun at them and fired
it multiple times in their direction. Sawyer said that Knight was acting ve... More...   $0 (02-27-2017 - TX)

Kenneth Douglas appeals his sentence, arguing that the District Court incorrectly held him responsible for trafficking more than 450 kilograms of cocaine, erroneously applied sentencing enhancements for abuse of a position of trust under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.3 and obstruction of justice under U.S.S.G. § 3C1.1, and failed to appropriately consider the disparity between his sentence and those imposed on h... More...   $0 (02-26-2017 - PA)

On May 17, 2014, El Paso Police Department Officer James Morales and Officer
Lorenzo Ontiveros responded to an assault-family violence call on Sun Fire Street in El Paso,
Texas. They spoke with the victim, Nydia Garcia, regarding the events that took place. Garcia
appeared emotional, excited, and upset while talking to the officers. She related that her former
boyfriend, App... More...   $0 (02-21-2017 - TX)