Qualified Immunity

Police officers are experiencing a lot of challenges in their jobs, ranging from burnout to questions over qualified immunity.

The court won’t shield corrections officials from lawsuits for the way they handled the pandemic.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor warns that throwing out such cases on legal technicalities 'produces unfair and inefficient results.'

The new case examines the limits of qualified immunity, a judicial doctrine that shields government officials.

The Supreme Court decided against hearing the wrongful conviction lawsuit of a Wisconsin man who spent 24 years ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) calls a video that shows police fatally beating 29-year-old Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee, ...

Rejecting an appeal by Dallas police officers, the U.S. Supreme Court decided on May 31 to allow a ...

The Supreme Court on Oct. 18 ruled in favor of police in two cases in which plaintiffs had ...

A trio of bipartisan lawmakers leading negotiations on a comprehensive police reform package have reached a preliminary bipartisan ...

More than 5,300 New York police officers resigned or retired last year—a sharp increase of 75 percent over ...

Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes is speaking out against recent congressional reform initiatives that involve eliminating qualified immunity, a law that grants government ...

Commentary It is indeed rare, if not unprecedented, to see a highly diverse group of organizations such as ...

New Mexico has eliminated a legal defense known as qualified immunity, making it easier to sue government employees, ...

The New York City Council has passed a series of measures that affect police operations, including a hotly ...

The Supreme Court on Monday turned away another opportunity to review a widely debated legal doctrine—known as “qualified ...

Two Democrats crossed the aisle to vote against a police reform package introduced by their colleagues that would ...

A group of lawmakers has renewed efforts to make it easier to sue police officers for damages by reintroducing ...

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled against claims of qualified immunity in the case of alleged mistreatment of ...

Police groups are concerned that making it easier to sue police officers for damages would cause them to ...

Joining a chorus of lawmakers calling for police accountability, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Edward Markey (D-Mass.), and Bernie Sanders ...

Commentary The time for serious police reforms has come. There is no ignoring that fact. Cities and states ...

Breaking from his Republican Colleagues, Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) is introducing a bill on Tuesday to limit qualified immunity for ...

The Supreme Court on June 15 declined to revisit a widely debated legal doctrine—known as "qualified immunity"—that insulates ...

Republican Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) is leading the GOP effort to draft police reform legislation in response to ...

Nationwide protests against police violence are still persisting more than a week after George Floyd died while taking ...

Congressman Justin Amash (I-Mich.) is introducing legislation that will remove a law called “qualified immunity,” which makes it ...