Where the district court denied a deputy’s qualified immunity motion because there were genuine issues of material fact concerning his use of force, his interlocutory appeal was dismissed. This court ...

The Denver-based federal appeals court confirmed on Wednesday that it would not treat a judge's decision to move a civil case ...

The ruling is the second this year that attorney Tracey Hinson has won from the Third Circuit. In January, the court ruled that a Newark police officer is not entitled to qualified immunity in a civil ...

Decisions well before this shooting put it beyond debate that use of deadly force in these circumstances, where the suspect ...

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 ...

The child, and her 12-year-old brother, were left under the supervision of a neighbor by the mother, who left town for six days for a foreign job interview. From McMurry v. Weaver, decided Friday by ...

A federal court in Arkansas denied summary judgment to a West Memphis police officer on his request for qualified immunity from liability for excessive force claims by a handcuffed motorist he ...

In 2008, Lee Evans was charged with the disappearance and murder of five boys in 1978 based on an allegedly coerced confession of one man. A jury acquitted Evans of all charges, and he then brought ...

Section 1983 affords a judicial remedy to individuals who suffered deprivations of federal constitutional rights by state and local officials. And yet, in case after case, §1983 plaintiffs who were ...

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

A former Huntsville police officer convicted in a deadly 2018 on-duty shooting is appealing a judge's decision denying him qualified immunity and state-agent immunity in a wrongful death lawsuit filed ...