A three-member panel of U.S. Appeals Court judges said a Coralville police officer had qualified immunity when he shot a man ...

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.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a case involving a Massachusetts public school teacher who sued on free ...

The qualified immunity legal doctrine, established by the Supreme Court in 1967, is intended to protect government workers from frivolous lawsuits, Reuters reported.

U.S. District Judge Joel H. Slomsky ruled that the “individual defendants should have known that there was no probable cause ...

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 ...

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 ...

McKenzie, 58, was charged by the Portsmouth Police Department with sexual assault and simple assault of a minor at Gibbs ...