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Plaintiff stated a claim against officer for procuring an arrest warrant based on name alone when it turned out that there were more than one person in the geographical area with that name. “Basing probable cause solely on a similarity of name could create a substantial risk of error,” and it qualifies as reckless disregard. Parks v. Town of Leicester, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 78973 (D. Mass. June 7, 2012)*:

Nonetheless, it is troublesome that Fontaine, in concluding that plaintiff was the assailant, relied on the mere coincidence that the name that the victim provided matched the name in the database. The probability of multiple persons with the same name residing in a single geographic region--at least one as populous as Worcester County--is not negligible. Basing probable cause solely on a similarity of name could create a substantial risk of error. Arguably, an officer who pursued such a practice would be acting in reckless disregard of the truth.

Plaintiff alleged enough facts to stay in court that the police called to aid a repossession of a vehicle converted private action into state action. Morozov v. Howard County, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 77767 (D. Md. June 5, 2012).*

JUNCTION CITY, Kan. — A Kansas community is in mourning after a prominent businessman, his wife and their four children were killed Thursday when their small plane crashed into a swampy area of central Florida.

The single-turboprop, fixed-wing plane was heading home to Junction City from the Bahamas when it ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — More than a year after a tsunami devastated Japan, killing thousands of people and washing millions of tons of debris into the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. government and West Coast states don't have a cohesive plan for cleaning up the rubble that floats to American shores.

There ...

On the heels of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's latest stupid regulations commanding a shrinkage in the size of sugary drinks in restaurants, movie theaters and stadiums, the Walt Disney Co. has announced it will ban ads for products on its broadcast and online platforms that it has scientifically determined are "junk food" and do not meet the company's nutrition standards.2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-10T03:10:02ZBrent Bozell

I love being hated. And if you don’t think I’m hated then you haven’t read my most recent rating on www.ratemyprofessor.com. For those too lazy to click the link (that means liberals), I’ve reprinted the latest rating below.2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-09T02:10:02ZMike Adams

The classical definition of a hero is a person who puts himself at risk for the benefit of others. That certainly describes Adolfo Calero, who died June 2 at the age of 80. 2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-09T02:10:02ZOliver North

Gov. Scott Walker's victory in the Wisconsin recall election this week was no surprise to anyone but Big Labor. Unions were furious when Walker and the Republican-controlled legislature cut back their right to bargain on anything beyond wages.2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-09T02:10:02ZLinda Chavez

Monetarist and Keynesian clowns never want to address fiscal cliffs in advance, bubbles in advance, regulations in advance, or anything else in advance, except of course when they are dead wrong about what to do. 2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-09T02:10:02ZMike Shedlock

The progressive brain trust is astounded their spending binge didn’t work. 2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-09T02:10:02ZFritz Pfister

I don’t expect an improvement in the labor market to significantly undermine gold prices as there is still too much economic uncertainty in the marketplace.2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-09T02:10:02ZChris Poindexter

Liberals have to accept that even in those areas where Obama’s accomplishments were real, that, yes, Sandra, 2008 was all just a terrible fluke. 2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-09T02:10:02ZJohn Ransom

One thing good mentors always tell entrepreneurs is to listen to the market. If the market consistently tells you one thing that goes against what you believe, then you are wrong. The market is rarely if ever wrong. 2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-09T02:10:02ZJeff Carter

Bill Clinton continues to distance himself from some of Barack Obama's policy positions, firing opinions that have ticked off the White House and the president's reelection campaign.2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-09T02:10:02ZDonald Lambro

Paul Krugman of the New York Times criticized Estonia yesterday, writing that the Baltic nation suffered a “Depression-level slump” in 2008 and has only managed an “incomplete recovery” over the past few years. He blames this supposedly weak performance on “austerity.” 2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-09T02:10:02ZDaniel J. Mitchell

You hear the band strike up and play it at least once during every Democratic national convention: "Happy Days Are Here Again." It's been the party's theme song since FDR swept the presidential election of 1932. ("Happy days are here again/ The skies above are clear again...")2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-09T02:10:02ZPaul Greenberg

"Moving forward" is suddenly everybody's cliche in a city that thrives on political cliches, but there's another Washington that looks to the past -- or at least a commemoration of the past, and how we pay homage to the men who shaped the nation's destiny. Our most famous marble testifies to the memory of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln.2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-09T02:10:02ZSuzanne Fields

In 1919, after Boston police went on strike to protest the city's refusal to recognize their new union, Gov. Calvin Coolidge ordered the National Guard into the streets.2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-09T02:10:02ZPat Buchanan

The CIA was simply unable to recruit case officers who understood the region's culture, issues and actors and who could move imperceptibly within the local milieu. Instead, the case officers are obviously foreigners.2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-09T02:10:02ZStewart Scott

A raft of new polls underscore the political free fall Barack Obama finds himself in.2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-09T02:10:02ZHugh Hewitt

Watching Bill Clinton act as Barack Obama's "No. 1 surrogate," in the words of National Public Radio, is as exquisitely painful as watching a runaway monkey with a paintball gun at a museum.2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-09T02:10:02ZJonah Goldberg