Michigan Cops Raided a Home, Damaged the House, and Held a Family at Gunpoint. It Was the Wrong Address.
Accountability is unlikely.
There will be no justice for Onree Norris.
Polling shows a sharp partisan divide on the issue, but it also suggests that compromise might be possible.
The announcement comes days after an exclusive report from Reason attracted national attention to the case.
The Supreme Court will soon announce if it'll consider an appeal.
A study of civil rights cases found that "police officers are virtually always indemnified" by their employers.
The case is an indictment on just how hard it is to get accountability when the government violates your rights.
The decision will make it even more difficult for victims to hold the government accountable when their rights are violated.
The Supreme Court has a chance to fix this. The stakes are high.
Cops say they can't function without qualified immunity, while their supporters on the right say abolishing it would be a step toward defunding the police. Neither claim is true.
The victim will now have no right to argue his case before a jury in civil court.
If the officer succeeds, the victim will not be allowed to sue on those claims.
The boy was sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment.
Up for debate was whether or not it was "clearly established" that officers cannot apply injurious force to a subject who isn't resisting.
"We need a Green New Deal for Public Housing," says Rep. Jamaal Bowman. "We need a Green New Deal for Cities…and we need a Green New Deal for Public Schools."
The doctrine shields state actors from accountability.
The GOP has resisted reining in the doctrine. That might change.
Most victims of police misconduct never get to take their cases to court.
A police officer pulled the trigger. But Wright shouldn't have been pulled over in the first place.
It is the third state to rein in the legal doctrine that protects state actors from accountability for misconduct.
“An officer violates the Fourth Amendment if he shoots an unarmed, incapacitated suspect who is moving away from everyone present at the scene.”
Luther Hall was assaulted so severely he required a spinal fusion.
The officers knowingly violated the First Amendment, said the court. But that doesn't matter.
It is the first city in the U.S. to do so.
Union resistance shut down last year’s effort.
But the agreement could complicate Derek Chauvin's murder trial, and it leaves unresolved the question of whether qualified immunity would have blocked the lawsuit.
Experts disagree on whether this is likely or not. The answer remains unclear. But, either way, reform advocates should pursue both litigation and legislative reform. The two approaches are mutually reinforcing, not mutually exclusive.
The Supreme Court delivers another blow to a victim of egregious police abuse.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson denied qualified immunity to the officers involved in Patterson v. United States.
The Ending Qualified Immunity Act of 2021 would no longer let state actors violate your rights without consequence.
Angelo Quinto's family has filed a wrongful death claim.
Strategic politicking, police union influence, or both?
The justices did not address one of James King's key arguments, which the 6th Circuit will now consider.
They need not wait for the Supreme Court or Congress to restrict or abolish qualified immunity.
An encouraging sign from the Supreme Court
A bill approved by the state House would let people sue government officials for violating rights protected by the state constitution.
The appeals court concluded that the officers' use of force was reasonable in the circumstances.
The unfolding legal saga of City of Hayward v. Stoddard-Nunez
Fourth Amendment advocates prevail in Wingate v. Fulford.
The warden at the center of the case was originally given qualified immunity.
A state law eliminated qualified immunity as a defense for abusive officers.
A federal court said it did not violate her Fourth Amendment rights.
Objections to police reform are often more rooted in partisan knee-jerk reactions than in sensible policymaking.
A Connecticut law that made it easier to sue abusive cops is not expected to have a noticeable effect on municipal insurance costs.
Unfortunately, qualified immunity remains intact.
Now do qualified immunity.