Police reform has been at the forefront of protests the past few weeks, following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The qualified immunity doctrine is getting a lot of attention. “Qualified ...

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Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are trying to negotiate a bipartisan bill to reform federal policing laws, and qualified immunity is a key sticking point. Qualified immunity protects government officials, ...

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 ...

Jenny Rowe, Coalition to End Qualified Immunity co-founder and volunteer, who lost her partner Sean when he was fatally shot in a 2021 police standoff, speaks at the kickoff for the campaign at the ...

General skepticism toward qualified immunity, the legal doctrine that makes it difficult to sue rights-violating state and local government officials, has over the years brought together weird ...

For more than half a century, so-called qualified immunity has shielded police officers from lawsuits. Now, Congress and some state houses are... How Reforming Qualified Immunity Could Transform ...

“We cannot stand idly by while rogue federal agents—emboldened by the Trump White House—ravage our communities, brutalize families, and kill our neighbors on the street in cold blood,” said Pressley.

The Fourth Circuit in a 2-1 decision reversed a district court award of qualified immunity to a police officer, finding he had violated a U.S. lieutenant's civil rights during a December 2020 traffic ...

Officials allegedly retaliated against a professor who expressed politically controversial statements about the best treatments for gender dysphoria among youth. In Josephson v. Ganzel, a unanimous ...