On his last shift before a day off, the defendant-police officer responded to a domestic disturbance call, took statements from both participants, was unable to determine who was the primary aggressor, submitted his warrant applications and incident report to the ...

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Where the State of Ohio terminated the parental rights of then four-year-old plaintiff’s biological parents, the state took on an affirmative constitutional duty not to make a foster placement that was deliberately indifferent to plaintiff’s right to personal safety and ...

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At the time Officer Scott Hill sought a warrant for defendant’s arrest, Hill knew that tobacco products were kept behind the counter of a convenience store. When watching the store’s security footage, Hill saw the perpetrator climb over the counter ...

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Although plaintiff was eventually acquitted on charges that he had abused eight-week-old E.W., his only complaints about statements in the affidavit supporting the warrant for his arrest are directed at statements that his “admissions are consistent with the injuries reported ...

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Even though the arresting officer knew of the complainant’s history of aggression towards the plaintiff’s decedent, the statements of the complainant and her son gave the officer probable cause to arrest the decedent for assault and battery after her altercation ...

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A man who claims he was unlawfully seized by police based on untruthful statements made by an anonymous tipster has settled his civil rights and other claims for $450,000, his attorney reports.   Daniel Boles of Boles Law Firm in Charleston ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A prominent civil rights attorney on Tuesday demanded that a South Carolina prosecutor revisit a case and criminally charge the two jail employees who stunned a mentally ill Black man 10 times and kneeled on his ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Collier says that during the seven years he worked as an operating room aide at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, white nurses called him and other Black employees “boy.” Management ignored two large swastikas painted on ...

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  The widow of a man who died after police held him down for more than 15 minutes and EMTs gave him a shot of a strong anesthetic has settled a pre-lawsuit claim against the town of Mount Pleasant for ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina civil rights lawyer who helped redefine free speech rights for attorneys has died. Edna Smith Primus died Nov. 29 at age 75, The State newspaper reported. One of the first black women to ...

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