Absent qualified immunity, government indemnification and budgeting would continue to dampen the effect of lawsuits on government decisionmaking—but eliminating the defense could exert other pressures on government to improve.
It would not do much to protect public safety, but it would magnify the injustice of existing restrictions on gun ownership.
Just testified this morning before the House Ways & Means Committee Oversight Subcommittee about this.
Conservatives deploy state power to go after speech they don't like.
Whistleblower Michael German's new book exposes how the FBI failed us on 9/11 and continues to endanger us all through racism, incompetence, and institutional inertia.
Or, will global leaders ignore them just like they did the People's Climate March in 2014?
Official responses to these extremely rare crimes are grossly disproportionate in light of the risk they actually pose.
Jonathan Vanderhagen believes a judge doomed his son to an early death. The judge says Vanderhagen's Facebook posts were intimidating.
Snowden didn’t subject his autobiography Permanent Record to pre-publication review by the federal government that’s also trying to throw him in prison.
Plus: Screen addiction is not really a thing and New Mexico embraces tuition-free college.
Eliminating qualified immunity would decrease the average cost, complexity, and time spent adjudicating civil rights cases.
Absent qualified immunity, the rate at which plaintiffs win would remain about the same.
Everybody’s going after Google and Facebook. But how do you prove they’re harming consumers?
Comedy, meet cancel culture
So holds the Arizona Supreme Court.
History provides a window into how abortion bans will play out if re-instituted.
America may be safer than ever, but residents of the Land of the Free seem set on raising their children in a climate of fear.
What impact would abolishing qualified immunity have on civil rights litigation, police misconduct, and government accountability?
Hard to see what President Trump was referring to with regard to the New York Times story with new allegations about Justice Kavanaugh.
New Mexico will apparently now be the only state in which spouses may generally testify about confidential statements made during the marriage.
If a state criminal conviction leads to denial of gun rights under state law (not just federal law), the defendant must be given the option of a jury trial, rules the Nevada Supreme Court.
The presidential contender conspicuously fails to explain the legal basis for her plan to impose new restrictions by executive fiat.
The "assault weapons" that the presidential contender wants to confiscate are not especially deadly, but the symbolism of that policy is poisonous.
Now he's being sued for another act of excessive force.
Advocating for gun control is no longer enough. On Thursday night, the Democratic presidential candidates promised gun confiscation.
"Any platform he is provided...creates more space for right-wing extremists to escalate their attacks on our communities."
The bill would make the criteria for federal grants loose enough to accommodate even the worst "red flag" laws.
The formal withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill won't be enough to stop the protest movement.
They worry that letting speech flourish in the rest of the campus will make "students feel unsafe and unwelcome."
If you want to stay out of federal court when suing someone from another state, ask for $75,000 or less at the outset -- as Eric Wedgewood / Heiko Julien, the creator of the Content Zone meme pages, has learned.
Four myths about the law that made the modern internet possible.
Going beyond criticism, the resolution would punish the NRA and its supporters by cutting off contractors with ties to the group.
What’s at stake in Kansas v. Glover.
"Approximately 2½ minutes after Ms. Oransky's group began chanting ... a representative of the Community Center announced that the facility was closing and that everyone had the leave the building. Ms. Oransky took credit for that announcement immediately telling a videographer 'we closed it down!'"
The article is now available for free on SSRN.
Western Illinois University clamps down on student speech.
The program would try to develop a surveillance system based on predictive tests that don't exist.
Top justice rules that trying to push a criminal case forward over prosecutors’ objections is a violation of separation of powers.
Feds go fishing for private data in order to track down illegal exporters.
Who are the good guys? Who are the bad guys? Who knows? Do something!
The Supreme Court has said the First Amendment protects government contractors against termination based on their political views.
Right-wing cancel culture comes for Jamie Riley, who dared to criticize the American flag.
Nobody is being "confused" by vegetarian meat substitutes.
... or refer to all students without a title (e.g., by first name or by last name) and not use third-person pronouns to refer to them.
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