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Qualified Immunity
Brandon Tatum on the Policing Crisis and What Needs to Change
Police officers are experiencing a lot of challenges in their jobs, ranging from burnout to questions over qualified immunity.
Supreme Court Won’t Hear California’s Claim of Immunity for COVID-19 Deaths at Prison
The court won’t shield corrections officials from lawsuits for the way they handled the pandemic.
Supreme Court Won’t Rehear Police Brutality Case
Justice Sonia Sotomayor warns that throwing out such cases on legal technicalities ‘produces unfair and inefficient results.’
Supreme Court to Hear Case of Former City Council Member Claiming Retaliation
The new case examines the limits of qualified immunity, a judicial doctrine that shields government officials.
