Police reform has been at the forefront of protests the past few weeks, following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The qualified immunity doctrine is getting a lot of attention. “Qualified ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the wake of repeated police violations of individual civil rights and resulting large-scale protests in the summer of 2020, it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON – A year after the largest protests for racial justice in a generation, lawmakers in Congress are still debating police ...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has repeatedly criticized her fellow justices for creating, as she put it in a 2018 dissent, an “absolute shield” for police officers accused of excessive force.

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 ...

“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.

Discrimination settlements often task employers with implementing policy changes in addition to providing relief to the plaintiff. In Foster, the school district agreed to make several such changes in ...