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US Supreme Court preserves civil rights lawsuits under 19th century law
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday preserved the ability of people to sue for...
What good are rights under RI Constitution if you can't enforce them? That might change.
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe Rhode Island Constitution is a lot like a Zen koan: Do you have a right if you can't enforce it?...
Supreme Court denies Health & Hospital Corp.'s effort to block civil rights lawsuits
IndyStar | The Indianapolis Star via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe U.S. Supreme Court has decided that nursing home residents and the millions of Americans who...
A Federal Judge Just Called Out the Supreme Court
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoJackson, Mississippi, is no stranger to the doctrine of qualified immunity, which immunizes state and local officials from most federal civil rights...
Qualified Immunity Faces an Existential Threat at the Supreme Court
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 10 months agoWhat if qualified immunity isn’t real?I don’t mean to say that qualified immunity doesn’t exist. The...
Supreme Court rules for nursing home patient's family, declines to limit civil rights lawsuits
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for the family of a nursing home resident with dementia that had...
SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson disputes both sides in Marion County nursing home case
IndyStar | The Indianapolis Star via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe U.S. Supreme Court’s newest member, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, grilled the attorney...
Here's why Nancy Pelosi, Todd Rokita, Biden administration care about Indiana nursing home
IndyStar | The Indianapolis Star via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTodd Rokita, Nancy Pelosi, the Biden Administration, dozens of current and former members of...
Deputizing gone wild: Federal task forces give state and local cops ridiculously broad immunity
USA TODAY Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAs the Biden administration appears to be preparing an executive order to revive a police reform...
Lawsuit against IHL claims sexual discrimination against former JSU vice president
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 7 months agoNow that Mississippi's Institutions of Higher Learning has named its own Deputy Commissioner and...