Apr 10, 2023

Federal case law protects Vallejo police’s pattern of violence, legal scholar argues

Joanna Schwartz, a professor of law at UCLA, wrote in her new book Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable that a federal judge “had firsthand knowledge of a pattern of substantial claims of constitutional violations by Vallejo police.”...

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  Oct 08, 2021

Vallejo pays $650K settlement after seizing downtown property

A federal judge ruled that the city violated the Fourth Amendment when it seized and red-tagged two live-work storefronts in May 2017....

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