Richard Hershey is asking the Supreme Court to overrule a 5th Circuit decision that blocked the lawsuit provoked by that ...

A pair of San Francisco police officers involved in the wrongful murder conviction of Joaquin Ciria, who spent 32 years in prison before being exonerated, can’t receive qualified immunity, a federal ...

NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit upheld a Texas federal court’s denial of qualified immunity to former cop Aaron Dean, who shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson in her home within seconds of encountering ...

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 ...

The Byron White U.S. Courthouse for the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals is in downtown Denver. (Amanda Pampuro/Courthouse News) DENVER (CN) — The 10th Circuit on Wednesday affirmed the denial of ...

A bill to rewrite Alabama law on civil and criminal immunity for police officers, one of the priorities for Republican legislators and Gov. Kay Ivey, passed the Alabama House of Representatives today ...