Retired Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner promised to pay an Indiana man $120,000 per year to run a now-defunct pro bono legal services organization for pro se litigants, but, after a year and a half, he never paid up, the man alleged in a pro se complaint filed in federal court Thursday.
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ST. LOUIS (Legal Newsline) - Citing an influential appellate judge’s declaration that “the era of micromanagement of government functions by the federal courts is over,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has dissolved a proposed class action on behalf of future protestors against the City of St. Louis and put a strict time limit on a temporary injunction limiting how police can enforce unlawful-assembly ordinances.
A federal judge imposed strict rules on St. Louis police in November 2017 after widespread rioting erupted in the wake of the acquittal of officer Jason Stockley in the shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith. Police were threatened with contempt of court if they ordered protestors to disperse unless the protestors were “acting in concert to pose an imminent threat to use force or violence.”