SANTA FE – The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas has filed a lawsuit against the city of Santa Fe to protect individuals from being jailed for low-level offenses because they can’t afford to pay the fines associated with these small crimes.
GALVESTON – Three Galveston County men filed a class action lawsuit against the City of Santa Fe on allegations it is raising revenue by unconstitutionally jailing local residents, according to recent Galveston federal court records.
GALVESTON -- A Texas man is suing four Santa Fe police officers, alleging they violated his civil and constitutional rights during a traffic stop in Galveston County.
A Santa Fe woman who sued the city’s police department and the Galveston County Medical Examiner’s Office for erroneously declaring her husband’s death a suicide and lost recently filed a petition for bill of review. Barbara Younie’s five-page petition, filed Dec. 3 in the Galveston County 405th District Court, seeks to void the dismissal for want of prosecution that 405th District Court Judge Michelle Slaughter issued on Oct. 27, 2015 against the plaintiff for failing to prosecute her claims.
A lawsuit accusing the Santa Fe Police Department and the Galveston County Medical Examiner’s Office of erroneously deeming a resident’s death a suicide recently ended in favor of the defendants, Galveston County District Court records show. Santa Fe resident Barbara Younie sued the entities in July in the Galveston County 405th District Court, asserting Santa Fe police determined that David Younie killed himself “without considering other possibilities such as, homicide, accidental death, deat
A Santa Fe woman has brought a defamation lawsuit against the Santa Fe Police Department and the Galveston County Medical Examiner’s Office, alleging the entities wrongfully classified her husband’s recent death as a suicide. Barbara Younie filed the suit on July 1 in the Galveston County 405th District Court. Court documents explain that emergency responders on Jan. 8 were summoned to Dakota Dave’s Meat Market in Santa Fe where the late David Younie worked.
