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 ...

In the span of just a few weeks in February and March, qualified immunity made headlines in three very different ways. A civil-rights organization publicly urged New York’s governor to abolish it ...

Originating from a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court opinion regarding the termination of government employees in retaliation for speaking out about the Nixon Administration, the doctrine of qualified immunity ...

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are objecting to changing protections police currently enjoy from civil lawsuits, underscoring the challenges facing a trio of lawmakers who are furiously ...

A Jackson County detective was denied qualified immunity in a lawsuit alleging he lied in an affidavit. Qualified immunity protects government officials from liability unless their conduct violates ...