A federal judge says two Osceola County deputies do not have qualified immunity in a deadly shooting from 2022 outside a ...

Congress gave Americans the right to sue government officials for civil-rights violations in 1871. Qualified immunity was ...

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 ...

A criminal task force comprised of multiple law enforcement officers was serving a search warrant on a person suspected of distributing methamphetamine. He had spent 15 years in prison for murder and ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — After years of trying to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot, an organization that said it wants to increase accountability for government employees is eyeing the 2026 ...

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 ...