Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The movement to increase accountability for police officers who use excessive force may have seen its most significant setback yet ...

Officials allegedly retaliated against a professor who expressed politically controversial statements about the best treatments for gender dysphoria among youth. In Josephson v. Ganzel, a unanimous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo: Getty Images) “We cannot stand idly by while rogue federal agents—emboldened by the Trump White House—ravage our ...

THE ISSUE UNDER THE LEGAL MICROSCOPE, THERE’S A NEW FOCUS ON THE DOCTRINE OF QUALIFIED IMMUNITY. >> A FEDERAL JUDGE IN JACKSON RECENTLY QUESTIONED WHETHER THE PRINCIPLE IS CONSTITUTIONAL THAT HAS BEEN ...

The death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in May 2020 gave momentum to a cross-ideological effort to reform the legal defense known as "qualified immunity," which can protect cops ...

A California woman won't be allowed to sue the police officer who allegedly leaked a confidential abuse report to her violent boyfriend after the Supreme Court declined to review her case, ending her ...

In back-to-back rulings on when cops should be afforded qualified immunity, an appeals court came to radically different conclusions. I like dogs. I’m a “dog person.” I think people who don’t like ...

For more than half a century, so-called qualified immunity has shielded police officers from lawsuits. Now, Congress and some state houses are... How Reforming Qualified Immunity Could Transform ...

When people argue about police accountability, one term keeps getting mixed up on purpose: qualified immunity. We are told that if qualified immunity is limited or ended, police officers will be ...

Following the fatal ICE shootings of Renee Good, Keith Porter, and others, U.S. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley introduced a new bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would end qualified ...

“We cannot stand idly by while rogue federal agents—emboldened by the Trump White House—ravage our communities, brutalize families, and kill our neighbors on the street in cold blood,” said Pressley.