Lund v. City of Rockford 7thCIR 20APR2020
Topic: Probable cause to arrest defeats a claim of retaliatory arrest in violation of the First Amendment. Lund, a reporter for…
Barton v. Martin 6thCIR 7FEB2020
Barton, the plaintiff in this case, shot a BB gun at the legs of his trampoline to scare away a cat…
United States v. Romero 10thCIR 5SEP2019
A Las Cruces police officer arrested Manuel Romero for obstructing an officer in violation of New Mexico Statute 30-22-1(D) because he…
Oglesby v. Lesan 8thCIR 3JUL2019
This is an interesting case with a good discussion of what constitutes a seizure under the Fourth Amendment and whether a…
Scott v San Bernardino 9thCIR 10SEP2018
This case is an unfortunate example of what happens when a middle school assistant principal teams up with a school resource…
US V SANTILLAN 2ndCIR 24AUG2018
The defendant was prosecuted for various drug offenses as a result of evidence obtained during a traffic stop as well as…
BUNKLEY V DETROIT 6thCIR 29AUG2018
Officers made an arrest of the defendant because they were ordered to do so by a superior even though they had…
United States v Polite 8thCIR 6DEC2018
It was a chilly Halloween night in Omaha, Nebraska when at about 2230 police in an unmarked car were monitoring an…
United States v Perry 8thCIR 15NOV2018
Someone calls 911 and reports “shots fired” and describes the shooter as a taller black male with a goatee wearing a…