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• August 04, 2026

  DOJ Calls Connecticut ICE Law 'Blantantly Unconstitutional'

  The U.S. Department of Justice pushed back against Connecticut's bid to toss the federal government's legal challenge to a state law subjecting in-custody deaths to state oversight, requiring federal agents to wear identifying badges, and banning law enforcement officers from wearing facemasks, calling the act "blatantly unconstitutional."

• August 03, 2026

  Conn. City Seeks Cut To Exoneree's 'Excessive' $38M Verdict

  New Haven, Connecticut, has asked a federal judge to lower the $38 million award that a jury ordered for a felony murder exoneree after finding that local police engaged in a widespread pattern of concealing evidence, arguing the city was improperly associated with a former detective of "low character" who is now the subject of a criminal referral.

• August 03, 2026

  Feds Lose Bid To End Redlining Order For Lakeland Bank

  A New Jersey federal judge has declined to sign off on the conclusion of a $13 million redlining deal between Lakeland Bank and the U.S. Department of Justice, ruling that the bank's existing compliance with the deal does not justify its early termination.

• July 30, 2026

  Conn. Bans Most In-Cell Restraints To Settle Prison Lawsuit

  Connecticut's prisons on Sept. 1 will stop using separate restraints on inmates locked in holding cells, the state's corrections commissioner announced Thursday, settling a lawsuit by disability rights advocates who said the state was inappropriately using shackles to deal with mental illness symptoms.

• July 28, 2026

  Man Sues NC City Over Arrest For Smoking Legal Hemp

  A man arrested in 2023 after smoking a legal hemp cigarette is suing the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, and two of its police officers, saying the city had made the officers aware that they couldn't distinguish between cannabis and hemp by smell, but they still arrested him and a companion anyway.

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