BOSTON (WWLP) – Qualified immunity for police officers was a hot-button issue on Beacon Hill in 2020 during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, and lawmakers are debating similar policies ...

Originating from a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court opinion regarding the termination of government employees in retaliation for speaking out about the Nixon Administration, the doctrine of qualified immunity ...

Minneapolis entered January with unusually mild weather and a sense of calm, but that was shattered two days later when a ...

The ICE agent involved in the fatal shooting could try to invoke immunity under the Constitution's Supremacy Clause to try to ...

Congresswoman Pressley delivered a floor speech on the need to end qualified immunity for federal law enforcement, including immigration officers. Watch the floor speech here.

During his first bid to become Virginia attorney general, Jay Jones promoted legislative efforts to divest from the police, pull cops from schools, end qualified immunity for law enforcement, and ...

It’s been more than five years since the death of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer and more than four years since Massachusetts passed a police reform law spurred by that ...

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 ...

Florida sheriff’s deputies were conducting a training exercise in the parking lot of a Target when they became aware of a ...