In the 1980s and 1990s, a series of Supreme Court decisions and a new law sought to curb "frivolous" prisoner lawsuits and give more deference to prison officials. Together, they changed the legal ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recently affirmed the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri's denial of summary judgment based on qualified immunity to two ...

In a 6-to-3 decision that should have been slam-bang unanimous, the Supreme Court ruled today in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson that a city does not violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and ...

In a ruling on Monday (in Clark v. Valletta), a divided panel of the Second Circuit ruled that prison officials were entitled to qualified immunity on a prisoner’s claim that they violated the Eighth ...

Alabama voters have passed Amendment 1 changing Section 16 of the constitution, which concerns the right to bail, a right also covered under the 8th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Section 16 says ...