Institute for Justice: Supreme Court Rejects Veteran's Attempt to Sue Va. Hospital Police Who Assaulted Him in Unprovoked Attack
May 25, 2021
May 25, 2021
ARLINGTON, Virginia, May 25 (TNSPol) -- The Institute for Justice issued the following news release on May 24, 2021:
If you are in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, you now cannot sue federal police for violating your constitutional rights, no matter how egregious their conduct. The Supreme Court today refused to hear a case--Oliva v. Nivar--that would have allowed government officials to be held to account. As a result, the erroneous lower court decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Co . . .
If you are in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, you now cannot sue federal police for violating your constitutional rights, no matter how egregious their conduct. The Supreme Court today refused to hear a case--Oliva v. Nivar--that would have allowed government officials to be held to account. As a result, the erroneous lower court decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Co . . .