Congress gave Americans the right to sue government officials for civil-rights violations in 1871. Qualified immunity was ...

A judge denied legal immunity for two Osceola County deputies after they were accused of unreasonable and excessive force ...

A federal judge says two Osceola County deputies do not have qualified immunity in a deadly shooting from 2022 outside a ...

US Sen. Ed Markey and US Rep. Ayanna Pressley want to eliminate so-called “qualified immunity” for ICE agents and other ...

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 ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – Qualified immunity for police officers was a hot-button issue on Beacon Hill in 2020 during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, and lawmakers are debating similar policies ...

There's a renewed push to reform qualified immunity, a legal doctrine that protects police officers, along with some others, from civil lawsuits. In Congress, Sen. Justin Amash of Michigan proposed a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of a California police officer denied qualified immunity in a civil rights ...

Originating from a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court opinion regarding the termination of government employees in retaliation for speaking out about the Nixon Administration, the doctrine of qualified immunity ...

The plan was for Michael Wayne Jackson and his family to get Red Lobster Dec. 4, 2021 after the father finished his night shift doing road construction and got some rest. But Michael needed a haircut, ...

As a registered Republican, I’m alarmed by the Ohio GOP’s response to the proposed amendment to end qualified immunity. Their recent press release paints this effort as a “radical” attack on police, ...