Civil Rights
Constitutional Cases for Justice Warriors (November 8, 2022)
In February, the state released the results of an audit revealing that 185 people had died in San Diego County’s jails from 2006 through 2020, raising “concerns about underlying systemic issues with the Sheriff’s Department’s policies and practices.”
This year alone, at least twenty people
Ninth Circuit Decision Weighs Police Intrusion Known as ‘Chalking Tires’
Last month the Ninth Circuit published a decision on the constitutional implications of what may be perceived by some as a small, annoying police intrusion – chalking the tires of parked cars. The Ninth Circuit’s holding in Verdun creates a Circuit Split over the issue and includes some
Civil Case Updates for Criminal Practitioners Archive (May 2018)
Police liability for fabricating evidence
Caldwell v. City & Cty. of S.F., No. 16-15473, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 12335 (9th Cir. May 11, 2018)
Mr. Caldwell spent nearly 20 years in prison for a crime that evidence later showed he did not commit. He sued the police department and individual
