#appeals — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #appeals, aggregated by home.social.
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This week, in #Hernandez et. al. v. City of Los Angeles (docket no. 21-55994), the US Court of #Appeals for the Ninth Circuit chipped away at the misguided #legal principle of #qualifiedImmunity. The case involved a female officer, Toni McBride, who put six bullets in a suspect—the last 2 of which were fired while the suspect was "rolling on the ground".
In a 6-5 en banc decision, the court overturned a 3-judge panel's ruling that qualified immunity protected (now former) Officer McBride, based on a horrifying 2017 precedent from Orange County in which a Sheriff's Department officer essentially executed a prisoner, firing six shots into him after he'd already been hit several times and was lying on the ground. (In the earlier case, Zion v. County of Orange, the officer then stomped on the mortally wounded suspect's head.)
It's always good news when cops are held to account for their actions.
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#EliRubashkyn, #convicted #of #tomato #juice #assault on #TERF #Hatemonger #PosieParker, #appeals #sentence in #Auckland #HighCourt
#Defence #lawyer #JamesOlsen argued to #Justice #DavidJohnstone that #Judge #KirstenLummis had erred by not fully considering the #impact a #conviction would have on his #client.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #NewZealand #UK #TERFS #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Transphobia #TERFIsland #ExportingHate
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[Video] 'Staggering': #Federal #judges made rare #appeals for #Judge #AileenCannon to #handoff #Trump #case
Two separate #federal #judges made the rare move of encouraging Judge Cannon to hand off the #Trump #MaraLago #case after early #mistakes made clear she was not suited to deal with the #case's #complexities
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Courts #Corruption #Partisanship #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate