In 1989 the Supreme Court provided law enforcement with a holding in Graham v Connor (Graham), that changed the manner in which courts evaluated use of force claims, changing from a subjective due ...

This, Police Chief William McManus told the Editorial Board recently, is why many residents cringe after a police shooting of unarmed suspects. A shooting might involve objective reasonableness — that ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - During closing arguments Tuesday in the voluntary manslaughter trial of Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo, prosecutors asked that Brelo be held accountable for the deaths of two ...

A little knowledge of the legal standards or facts of how police are trained goes a long way. Many of the complaints and allegations referencing recent actions by police officers in use-of-force ...

The US Supreme Court held that for the scienter element of the False Claims Act (FCA), what matters is the defendant’s “knowledge and subjective beliefs” – not objective reasonableness In practice, ...