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 ...

Randall's mother Wendy Tippitt filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Iverson violated her son's constitutional rights.

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 ...

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 ...

A federal judge has upheld a recommendation to deny qualified immunity in the case of a Rusk County sergeant who shot and ...

The family of a man who died in an incident with a former Rusk County Sheriff’s deputy is seeing their case proceed to trial ...

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 ...