A federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas denied qualified immunity—a legal doctrine that protects local and state ...

A federal appeals court reversed a prior ruling that shielded a Los Angeles police officer from being sued for a fatal ...

The 6th U.S. Circuit of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit against a CMHA officer who fatally shot 19-year-old Keith in 2020.

The lawsuit claims migrants arrested as part of the state's border security crackdown were unlawfully kept in jail after they ...

The Colorado-based federal appeals court agreed on Friday that a Denver sheriff's deputy will face a civil jury trial for ...

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

A lawsuit filed by a top advisor to former Gov. Rick Snyder against Attorney General Dana Nessel and Flint water crisis ...

The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday, May 28, denied a request that justices review a previously dismissed lawsuit filed ...

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

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 ...

“This officer was able to get by through the loopholes of qualified immunity,” Atchison’s father, Jimmy Hill, said. Despite an indictment, Hill told Channel 2’s Tyisha Fernandes that he knew that it ...