A federal judge has denied qualified immunity to two Eugene police officers accused of using excessive force against a University of Oregon student during a 2022 encounter over an open container of ...

Qualified immunity, established by the Supreme Court in 1967, effectively protects state and local officials, including police officers, from personal liability unless they are determined to have ...

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 ...

Josh Elliott: Qualified immunity too often serves as “a shield for people to be complicit in damaging Black and Brown communities.” Credit: Zoom photos New Haven police accountability activist Kerry ...