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A three-member panel of U.S. Appeals Court judges said a Coralville police officer had qualified immunity when he shot a man ...
A federal judge has given state Superintendent Ryan Walters a legal win in a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed by a former ...
Alexandra Weaver argued that she could not reasonably have been expected to know that her actions were unconstitutional.
A federal judge ruled a lawsuit can proceed against a Harris County deputy accused of using excessive force and falsifying ...
Former MSP Detective Sgt. Brian Keely's lawyers move to dismiss the excessive force civil suit, citing qualified immunity.
The officers argued that they should receive qualified immunity in the federal lawsuit filed by Cedric "CJ" Lofton's brother.
LA City Council unanimously directs the City Attorney to seek injunctive relief over “unconstitutional searches, seizures and ...
The qualified immunity legal doctrine, established by the Supreme Court in 1967, is intended to protect government workers from frivolous lawsuits, Reuters reported.
Oregon corrections officials will have to defend claims that they violated prisoners’ Eighth Amendment rights by failing to protect them from exposure to Covid-19, a federal appeals court said.
The proposals to overturn legislation overhauling higher education, eliminate property taxes and end qualified immunity will ...
If qualified immunity were eliminated or severely restricted, it would likely have a chilling effect on law enforcement. The threat of a lawsuit over any misstep would mean police officers would ...
Qualified immunity was created by the U.S. Supreme Court nearly 60 years ago. It shields police officers from accountability if they’re accused of wrongdoing on the job. “The people that support ...