Former Rusk County deputy Shane Iverson can now be sued for the 2022 fatal shooting of Timothy Michael Randall, who was ...

A federal judge dismissed the case of a Wheatland man who sued Platte County Sheriff’s Deputies for sending him to jail ...

Randall's mother Wendy Tippitt filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Iverson violated her son's constitutional rights.

Qualified immunity must be reevaluated and abolished, whether through judicial action by the Court or legislative intervention.

The ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in a lawsuit involving a fatal on-duty shooting by a now-retired LAPD officer ...

SANTA FE — New Mexico's Supreme Court on Monday drew new boundaries for a 2021 law that allows individuals to file lawsuits in state court against government agencies for alleged civil rights ...

A Los Angeles police officer who shot and killed a blade-wielding suspect after he had collapsed on the ground isn’t entitled to qualified immunity, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The majority ...

For Karen Blum, a professor at Suffolk University Law School in Boston and a long-term critic of qualified immunity, the situation is nothing short of depressing. "After George Floyd, it was the ...

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 ...