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Qualified Immunity
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Protester loses excessive force on qualified immunity grounds
By secondcircuitcivilrightsblogsecondcircuitcivilrig
You may not be aware of this, but the Supreme Court on a regular basis summarily reverses rulings from around the country holding that a jury may find that police…
Missouri Lawyers Media
Supreme Court grants qualified immunity to Vermont officer in protester force claim
The Supreme Court on Monday shielded a Vermont police officer from a legal claim that he used excessive force in 2015 on a protester during a sit-in at the state’s…
North Carolina Criminal Law
Case Summaries: Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (February 2026)
By Phil Dixon
This post summarizes published criminal law and related cases released by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals during February 2026. Cases of potential interest to state practitioners are summarized monthly.…
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False arrest case is dismissed on qualified immunity grounds
By secondcircuitcivilrightsblogsecondcircuitcivilrig
False arrest cases are often dismissed prior to trial because the police are able to prove they had probable cause to arrest the plaintiff. Even if the charges against the…
TortsProf Blog
Reinert, Schwartz & Pfander’s Study on State Qualified Immunity Reforms
Alex Reinert, Joanna Schwartz & James Pfander have posted to SSRN Watching the Sky Not Fall: A Study of State Qualified Immunity Reforms. The abstract provides: Police violence like that…
North Carolina Criminal Law
Case Summaries: Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (Jan. 2026)
By Phil Dixon
This post summarizes published criminal law and related cases released by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals during January 2026. Cases of potential interest to state practitioners are summarized monthly.…
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Excessive force verdict is gone
By secondcircuitcivilrightsblogsecondcircuitcivilrig
This qualified immunity case shows us what happens when the case is unique and the jury rules in your favor but the court determines later on that the case was…
Municipal Minute
Seventh Circuit Grants Qualified Immunity to Police Officers
In Johnson v. Edwards, an arrestee sued four police officers alleging they violated his constitutional rights after he was arrested for disorderly conduct. Johnson was arrested after he attempted to enter…
Balkinization
The Locus of the Law: Loper-Bright and Qualified Immunity
By richardprimusbalkin-blogspot-com
I find myself thinking about a potential tension between two impulses in the jurisprudence of the Roberts Court. Roughly, it's a tension between judicial behavior as law-finding and as law-making. The…
Bressler Risk Blog
DQ News — Positional Conflict v Free Speech, Client Consternation, and Qualified Immunity, Divorce Lawyer Interview-palooza Doesn’t Draw DQ
By Dan Bressler
“6th Circuit grants law firm qualified immunity in firing” — “A law firm was entitled to dismissal of an employment retaliation suit on qualified immunity grounds because no clearly established…