Former Rusk County deputy Shane Iverson can now be sued for the 2022 fatal shooting of Timothy Michael Randall, who was ...

A federal judge dismissed the case of a Wheatland man who sued Platte County Sheriff’s Deputies for sending him to jail ...

Qualified immunity must be reevaluated and abolished, whether through judicial action by the Court or legislative intervention.

The ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in a lawsuit involving a fatal on-duty shooting by a now-retired LAPD officer ...

SANTA FE — New Mexico's Supreme Court on Monday drew new boundaries for a 2021 law that allows individuals to file lawsuits in state court against government agencies for alleged civil rights ...

A Los Angeles police officer who shot and killed a blade-wielding suspect after he had collapsed on the ground isn’t entitled to qualified immunity, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The majority ...

The corporal was, however, protected by court-granted “qualified immunity” from liability for his appalling misjudgment. Qualified immunity is frequently misapplied because the Supreme Court ...

THE ISSUE UNDER THE LEGAL MICROSCOPE, THERE’S A NEW FOCUS ON THE DOCTRINE OF QUALIFIED IMMUNITY. >> A FEDERAL JUDGE IN JACKSON RECENTLY QUESTIONED WHETHER THE PRINCIPLE IS CONSTITUTIONAL THAT HAS BEEN ...

Joanna Schwartz is a professor of law at UCLA, where she teaches civil procedure and courses on police accountability and public interest lawyering. She is the author of Shielded: How the Police ...

They will have only one new relist to discuss. Cope v. Cogdill is the latest in a long line of petitions urging the Supreme Court to revisit its jurisprudence under the “qualified immunity” doctrine, ...

The doctrine of qualified immunity that protects federal, state and local government officials, including police, from civil lawsuits is being scrutinized and criticized by legal scholars in New ...