A federal appeals court ruled that a Nevada police officer who struck a suspect multiple times with a baton after a pursuit is protected from a lawsuit by qualified immunity. The 9th Circuit said the ...
Law360 (June 6, 2025, 8:28 PM EDT) -- Washington appellate judges expressed skepticism on Friday regarding an ambulance company's stance that qualified immunity shielded it from a patient estate's ...
Recently, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that tribal officials could not claim sovereign immunity or qualified immunity from potential liability for failure to remit taxes on cigarette sales ...
The ruling is the second this year that attorney Tracey Hinson has won from the Third Circuit. In January, the court ruled that a Newark police officer is not entitled to qualified immunity in a civil ...
Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. In a list of orders released on Monday morning, the Supreme Court reversed a ruling by a federal appeals court, holding that a ...
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — A judge’s recent order denying qualified immunity to two law enforcement officers in a federal wrongful death lawsuit marks an important stage in the suit, an attorney and ...
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 ...