First Thursday, March 2025

First Thursday

Mar 06, 2025•1 hr 4 min

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Episode description

In this month’s podcast, Rick discusses an important free speech case involving a fight over a police association’s logo and speaks with police defense attorney Lance LoRusso about a use of force case being decided by the Supreme Court.

00:01:41 — What’s going on with LRIS.

00:02:50 — Union logo free speech case (FOP Pennsylvania State Lodge v. Springfield Township).

00:14:32 — Lance LoRusso talks about the Blue Line Lawyer Institute and its upcoming Force Forum on May 20-22 in Jekyll Island, Georgia.

00:30:27 — Rick and Lance discuss a Barnes v. Felix. This use of force case on the Supreme Court’s docket is about whether courts should apply the “moment of the threat” doctrine when evaluating an excessive force claim under the Fourth Amendment.

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