Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The movement to increase accountability for police officers who use excessive force may have seen its most significant setback yet ...

Officials allegedly retaliated against a professor who expressed politically controversial statements about the best treatments for gender dysphoria among youth. In Josephson v. Ganzel, a unanimous ...

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 ...

THE ISSUE UNDER THE LEGAL MICROSCOPE, THERE’S A NEW FOCUS ON THE DOCTRINE OF QUALIFIED IMMUNITY. >> A FEDERAL JUDGE IN JACKSON RECENTLY QUESTIONED WHETHER THE PRINCIPLE IS CONSTITUTIONAL THAT HAS BEEN ...

A California woman won't be allowed to sue the police officer who allegedly leaked a confidential abuse report to her violent boyfriend after the Supreme Court declined to review her case, ending her ...

In back-to-back rulings on when cops should be afforded qualified immunity, an appeals court came to radically different conclusions. I like dogs. I’m a “dog person.” I think people who don’t like ...

For more than half a century, so-called qualified immunity has shielded police officers from lawsuits. Now, Congress and some state houses are... How Reforming Qualified Immunity Could Transform ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Six days after 37-year-old Minneapolis mom and wife Renee Good’s shooting death by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, Massachusetts congressional lawmakers Sen. Ed ...