©2012 Jack Ryan, Attorney, PATC Legal & Liability Risk Management Institute (www.llrmi.com) In Brown v. Cwynar [i], the United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit reviewed a case involving the use of a TASER™ in the drive-stun mode, on a seventy-three [...]
An area which raises a great many questions among law enforcement supervisors and administrators is how far may a department go when restricting, through policies, an officer’s use of social media, and under what circumstances can a department discipline an [...]
©2012 Jack Ryan, Attorney, PATC Legal & Liability Risk Management Institute (www.llrmi.com) In Howes v. Fields, the United States Supreme Court examined a case where a federal trial court and the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit concluded that [...]
In Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington [i] the United States Supreme Court examined whether or not jails can strip search all persons to be booked into general population, no matter how minor the offense, and without [...]
©2012 Jack Ryan, Attorney, Co-Director, PATC Legal & Liability Risk Management Institute (www.llrmi.com) In Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington [i] the United States Supreme Court examined whether or not jails can strip search all persons to be [...]
©2012 Jack Ryan, Attorney, PATC Legal & Liability Risk Management Institute (www.llrmi.com) At the end of last week the United States Supreme Court overturned a United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit holding regarding the liability of an officer [...]
On January 23, 2012 the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that law enforcement’s act of attaching a GPS device to a vehicle and tracking the vehicle by use of the device constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment. [i] [...]
©2012 Jack Ryan, Attorney, PATC Legal & Liability Risk Management Institute (www.llrmi.com) In Perry v. New Hampshire [i] the United States Supreme Court reviewed an eyewitness identification that led to an arrest in Nashua, New Hampshire. The arrest of Barrion Perry was the [...]
Scott v. Harris seemed to settle the liability question with respect to the United States Constitution. Scott held that an officer’s attempt to stop a motorist who posed a threat to the public by his or her high speed flight did [...]
In a consolidated case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reheard two cases that were previously considered by panels of the Ninth Circuit. Brooks v. Seattle and Mattos v. Agarano Circuit were heard en banc in 2011. The decision in [...]