U.S. Supreme Court holds that Section 1983 procedural due process claim accrues when state-court litigation ends Reed v. Goertz, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to determine when a cause of action accrues (and thus when the statute of limitations period starts running) for a plaintiff’s claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that his conviction violated […]
Greetings, beloved criminal practitioners and defenders of civil rights! After a break from doing these updates, attributable mostly to a crazy trial schedule and launching / rebranding our new firm McKenzie Scott PC, my colleagues and I are excited to reboot this newsletter. As always, our hope is to provide useful case updates on civil-rights […]
(Constitutional Cases for Justice Warriors: October 12, 2022 Edition) Other than a hard-fought loss from McKenzie Scott PC’s criminal / white-collar practice, it was a slow week for relevant Ninth Circuit civil cases. So we turn our attention to unexpectedly powerful language—and ideas—from the Fifth Circuit. In Crane v. City of Arlington, the Fifth Circuit […]
The challenges and, all too frequent, horrors of life in private prisons in the United States are well documented: Jonathan Mattise, Private prison firm to settle lawsuit over inmate death, San Diego Union Tribune, August 14, 2022. First Amendment Retaliation Against Individuals in Immigration Detention in California, California Collaboration for Immigrant Justice, Centro Legal De […]