Clarence Thomas Slams Qualified Immunity For College Officials In First Amendment Case

The Supreme Court’s subtle hint on police accountability

He Died After Cops Shackled Him and Held Him Facedown. A Court Said That Was Constitutional. SCOTUS Isn’t So Sure.

Supreme Court returns St. Louis excessive force case involving death in jail to lower court

How to Hold Federal Law-Enforcement Officers Accountable

Will N.J opt to limit qualified immunity for police, other public officials?

Leaked legislation shows hope for reforming qualified immunity

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In his petition for rehearing, José Oliva emphasizes that federal police should not be entitled to absolute immunity. Vietnam Vet Assaulted by Fed. Police Asks Supreme Court to Reconsider His Fourth Amendment Lawsuit

Justices Must Reject Police Shield Against Civil Rights Claims

Conservative conundrum: Are federal police above the law?

Cop Who Led Accidental No-Knock Raid Against 78-Year-Old Grandfather Can’t Be Sued, Court Rules

Supreme Court rejects veteran’s lawsuit against VA officers for assault

Federal Cops Attacked a 70-Year-Old Vietnam Veteran and Then Avoided Accountability in Court

‘The war is not over’ El Paso veteran put in chokehold at VA has lawsuit rejected by supreme court

Supreme Court dodges cases on police liability, declining to hear excessive force claims

Justices reject chokehold case brought by retired police officer

A City Got Protections From Qualified Immunity After a Cop Killed a Man. SCOTUS Won’t Hear the Case.

Justices reject case of retired cop put in police chokehold

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José Oliva Sought to Vindicate His 4th Amendment Rights He and the Institute for Justice vow to continue the fight to end absolute immunity for federal police and restore the system of constitutional accountability guaranteed by the republic’s founders. Supreme Court Rejects Veteran’s Attempt to Sue VA Hospital Police Who Assaulted Him in Unprovoked Attack

End the Court Doctrine That Enables Police Brutality

Retired officer asks Supreme Court to curb legal immunity for police

Wisconsin Judge Again Sides With Home Bakers On Sale Of Baked Goods

A Euclid Cop Killed a Man Who Had Been Sleeping in His Car. The Cop Can’t Be Sued. The City Can’t Be, Either.

Retired cop put in chokehold takes police case to high court

Does this veteran have any recourse against the federal cops who assaulted him?

California needs to end police immunity from accountability

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José Oliva Replies to Officers Who Assaulted Him But Who Now Seek to Escape Accountability, Calls on High Court to Review His Case Vietnam Vet Beaten by Police Continues Supreme Court Appeal

A fitting anniversary for the Ku Klux Klan Act

New York City Limits Qualified Immunity, Makes It Easier To Sue Cops Who Use Excessive Force

New York’s qualified immunity reforms are paying dividends

State Court Docket Watch: Hamen v. Hamlin County

States tackling ‘qualified immunity’ for police as Congress squabbles over the issue

Chauvin verdict reenergizes debate over Supreme Court’s legal deference for police

City of McKinney seeks to dismiss suit alleging SWAT team destroyed woman’s home

Blue Wall Crumbling as Second State Ends Qualified Immunity for Bad Cops

Reconsidering qualified immunity in the wake of George Floyd

New Mexico Prohibits Qualified Immunity For All Government Workers, Including Police

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New Mexico Enacts Landmark Bill Against Qualified Immunity

It’s Time to End Qualified Immunity in Wisconsin

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Castle Hills Officials Ask Appeals Court to Reinstate Immunity, Delaying Government Accountability Case Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: How Qualified Immunity Allows Government Officials to Delay Access to Justice

House bill targeting public officials’ immunity faulted by municipalities, police

States Start Tackling Police Reform Amid National Impasse

The Fight to End Qualified Immunity

Councilwoman sues officials who jailed her for petition drive

For former McKinney resident whose home was destroyed by SWAT team, lawsuit isn’t about the money

Texas’ George Floyd Act seeks to reform violent police behavior. But a sticking point centers on protecting officers from lawsuits.

Supreme Court Dips Gingerly Into Roiling Police Misconduct Waters

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Supreme Court Rules a Police Shooting Is a “Seizure” Officers Must Justify Under the Fourth Amendment

Opinion: It’s nearly impossible to hold federal officers accountable. The Supreme Court can change that.

Fifth Circuit at the Center of Controversy Over Immunity for Law Enforcement Officers

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Castle Hills, Tx. woman wins first round in a constitutional suit to vindicate political speech rights Texas Federal Judge Tosses Qualified Immunity Defense in First Amendment Retaliation Case

A Vital Protection For Constitutional Rights Is Now A ‘Relic,’ Federal Judge Warns

Lawsuit: Pasco intelligence program violated citizens’ rights

Is the Supreme Court Preparing to End Qualified Immunity?

Here’s a look at the police reform bills sweeping the New Mexico statehouse

Innocent Woman’s Texas Home Destroyed by Cops, City Refuses To Pay Damages

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Another Case Challenging Qualified Immunity for Police

Cracks in a Legal Shield for Officers’ Misconduct

A SWAT Team Destroyed This Innocent Woman’s House While Chasing a Fugitive. The City Refuses To Pay for Damages.

Vicki Baker

Former McKinney resident suing city for damages after her home was ‘destroyed’ in a SWAT raid

A SWAT Team Tore Down This Woman’s Home and Left Her With a $50,000 Bill

House Passes New Bill To Abolish Qualified Immunity For Police

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Amicus Briefs Support Veteran Beaten by Police To Get His Day Before U.S. Supreme Court

Lawsuit

Woman fights for compensation after house Destroyed by SWAT Team Texas SWAT Destruction

Police reform bills sweep the virtual statehouse, but outcome uncertain

Lower courts take notice: The Supreme Court is rethinking qualified immunity

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IJ Supports New Bill in Congress That Would End Qualified Immunity Nationwide

Financial cost of proposed New Mexico Civil Rights Act contentious

How to hold NYC cops accountable

Supreme Court Deals Loss to James King, Michigan Man Who Was Mistaken for Fugitive, Brutalized

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Student Assaulted by Law Enforcement Officers Will Have Key Part of Case Heard by Federal Appeals Court Brownback Case Is NOT Over: What Happened Yesterday in the Police Brutality Case and What Happens Next

Supreme Court Decides Brownback v. King

SCOTUS rules against GR man, case not over

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Case Appealed to U.S. Supreme Court Asks: May Federal Appeals Courts Abandon Neutrality and Create Arguments for the Government in Civil Rights Cases?

Supreme Court Refuses To Create New Legal Shield For Cops Who Almost Choked College Student To Death

‘Fight Continues’ Post-SCOTUS for Man Beaten by Officers (3)

Man beaten by police in case of mistaken identity can’t pursue lawsuit: SCOTUS

Justices deal loss to Grand Rapids man who challenged officers’ immunity

SCOTUS Rules Against an Innocent Man Who Was Choked and Beaten by Cops, but He May Still Get His Day in Court

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Supreme Court Orders Appeals Court To Take Second Look at Case of Man Assaulted by Law Enforcement Officers

Supreme Court Unanimously Rules Against Michigan Man Beaten, Hospitalized by Undercover Federal Task Force Officers

Former college student who claims he was beaten by officers loses ‘loophole’ case in Supreme Court

Supreme Court Tosses Suit Brought by Michigan Man Beaten by Police in Mistaken Identity Case

Supreme Court rules to protect federal agents in misconduct lawsuit

SCOTUS rules against GR man in excessive force suit

High Court Blocks Suit Over Mistaken-Identity Arrest

Supreme Court Unanimously Sides With FBI After Agents Beat College Student They Mistook for a Suspect

Unanimous court issues limited ruling on judgment bar in Federal Tort Claims Act

Court rules against student who sued federal officers for constitutional violations

U.S. Supreme Court rules against Grand Rapids man who claimed excessive police force, but case not over

Government workers’ immunity from suit under review

New Mexico Could Be the Third State To Authorize Lawsuits Against Abusive Cops Without Qualified Immunity

Court Grants Qualified Immunity To Cops Who Set A Man On Fire By Tasing Him

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New Mexico House Approves Major Bill Against Qualified Immunity

He told police, ‘I can’t breathe,’ 16 times before he died. Now, his family seeks justice.

Police reform advocates frustrated by bill’s defeat

Bad VA Cops are Protected. One Vietnam Vet Is Trying to Change That.

For better policing, put an end to qualified immunity in New Mexico

Veteran attacked by federal officers appeals case to the US Supreme Court: Column

A Black Mom’s Lawsuit Could Finally Topple Police Immunity

Op-Ed: Euclid Cops Killed An Unarmed Man and Courts Let Them Get Away With It. That Has To Stop

Retired Veteran Beaten By Police Urges Supreme Court To Close Loophole That Let Cops Choke Him

Lawsuit

Oliva v. Nivar

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Veteran Beaten by Police in Unprovoked Assault at VA Hospital Appeals Case to U.S. Supreme Court

José Oliva

Reps. Paul Berch and Tony Lekas: A bipartisan path to NH police reform

Qualified immunity still long way from being eliminated, West Virginia legal experts believe

New Massachusetts Law Will Decertify Rogue Cops, Revoke Their Immunity

Federal Agents Who Violate Individual Rights Can Be Sued For Damages, Supreme Court Rules

‘Defund The Police’ May Be A Unpopular Slogan, But Most Americans Want Major Policing Reforms

The Supreme Court might be finding its way to overturning ‘qualified immunity’

Colorado tries new way to punish rogue cops

SCOTUS Rules That Federal Agents Can Be Sued When They Violate Your Rights

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Opinion Closely Follows Institute for Justice Amicus Brief U.S. Supreme Court Rules Unanimously You May Sue Government Agents for Damages When They Violate Your Individual Rights

Supreme Court rules people can sue government agents for damages

Court Denies Qualified Immunity To Cops Who Beat An Innocent Man To Death

Jaicomo presents case to Supreme Court

An improbable journalist’s case could pressure the Supreme Court to rethink qualified immunity

Supreme Court hears arguments on serving notice, Federal Tort Claims Act

Argument analysis: Two paths forward in lawsuit alleging unconstitutional police violence

SCOTUS Just Heard Oral Arguments in Case About Excessive Use of Force by Police — What to Know

Justices’ comments give Grand Rapids man hope of having his day in court

Supreme Court Could Create New Government Immunity In Its Latest Police Brutality Case

SCOTUS Considers Whether James King Has Any Recourse Against the Cops Who Choked and Beat Him for No Good Reason

6 years after a man says he was beaten by undercover cops, the Supreme Court is hearing his case

SCOTUS to hear arguments in case of GR man saying he was beaten by undercover cops

Bold Justice: Court considers ACA’s individual mandate

Monday round-up

U.S. Supreme Court to hear qualified immunity arguments for Michigander beaten by police

U.S. Supreme Court hears Michigan case; Brownback v. King

Michigan man beaten by cops during arrest challenges immunity protection for police

Former Castle Hills councilwoman files lawsuit

Case preview: When does a statutory “judgment bar” prevent lawsuits against federal officers for constitutional violations?

If A Federal-State Task Force Violates Your Rights, Can Anyone Be Held Accountable?

‘Zero Accountability’ for Cops Who Choked and Beat an Innocent Man

Denying Immunity, Supreme Court Lets Man Left In Cells “Teeming With Human Waste” Sue Prison Guards

Law Enforcement Immunity Poses Problems For Cannabis Operators

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Statute designed to hold government officials accountable now being weaponized by Solicitor General to prevent victims from having their day in court Members of Congress, Scholars & Advocates Urge High Court Not to Create Loophole for Government Officials Seeking to Escape Accountability

Tyranny in Texas

Can A Woman Sue Cops Who Shot Her In The Back? Supreme Court Unsure If Fourth Amendment Even Applies

Supreme Court Could Create New Fourth Amendment Loophole For Police Shootings

Trump Administration on Wrong Side of Important Religious Freedom Case Before the Supreme Court

Is It “Appropriate” To Sue Federal Agents For Damages? Supreme Court Spars In Religious Freedom Case

FBI Asks High Court to Excuse Religious Harassment – InsideSources

Law Enforcement Accountability at Stake in Coming SCOTUS Cases

The Trump Administration’s Surprising Attack On Religious Freedom Reaches The Supreme Court

5 Supreme Court Access To Justice Cases To Watch

Federal Court: For-Profit Private Probation Can Violate Right To Due Process

Texas Councilwoman Fights Back After Her Opponents Had Her Arrested And Jailed

Former Castle Hills councilwoman charged with tampering records in 2019 sues city, mayor & police chief

Former Castle Hills councilwoman sues city, claims first amendment rights were violated

WTH is Qualified Immunity?

Lawsuit

Texas woman fights back after local officials in Castle Hills have her arrested and jailed for criticizing city government Castle Hills Retaliation

The controversy over qualified immunity

Opinion: Police need accountability after jailing citizen journalist

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Now the 5th Circuit will decide whether police officers can enforce a clearly unconstitutional law and get away with it Police Used an Unconstitutional Law to Arrest a Citizen-Journalist, and a Texas Court Let Them Off the Hook

This week on “Sunday Morning” (September 20)

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Amicus brief asks that government officials be held accountable for violating constitutional rights IJ Continues to Urge Supreme Court: Hold Government Officials Accountable for Violating Constitutional Rights

A Step Toward Accountability in Policing

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Virginia House Revives, Passes Landmark Bill Against Qualified Immunity

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Virginia House Rejects Pathfinding Bill Against Qualified Immunity

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Will U.S. Supreme Court Create Large Loophole for Officers and Officials Seeking to Escape Accountability?

End Qualified Immunity to Increase Police Accountability

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Civil Rights Groups Remind Supreme Court: Police Can Violate Constitutional Rights Even If They Don’t Kill or Disable You

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Hindsight on 2020: IJ Launches Legislative Initiative to Help Lawmakers Craft and Enact Responsive Reforms to Crises of This Year

Some States Are Pushing Laws to Restrict Police Behavior

SCOTUS takes GR case of man mistaken as fugitive, beaten by police

Politicians have supported heavily-armed law enforcement task forces, as seen in Portland, for years — with underwhelming outcomes for the vast expense

Qualified Immunity: Immune From Accountability

Connecticut Passes Law Curbing Qualified Immunity—but with Loopholes

New Connecticut Law Limits Police Immunity In Civil Rights Lawsuits, But Loopholes Remain

As More Federal Agents Enter American Cities, Local Leaders Can’t Keep Them In Line

Abolishing Qualified Immunity Could Hinder Police Officers from Doing Their Jobs: Police Groups

Law Review: Qualified Immunity — A Deconstruction of the Curious Doctrine

Don’t let Tucker Carlson scare you: reform won’t hurt good cops

A SWAT Team Blew Up This Family’s House While Chasing a Shoplifter. The Supreme Court Won’t Hear the Case.

Tucker Carlson Might Want To End Qualified Immunity If He Actually Knew What It Was

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House of Representatives Votes to End “Qualified Immunity” for Police

House Passes Policing Reform Package, Including Provision That Would End Qualified Immunity

‘They get a get-out-of-jail-free card’: How qualified immunity protects police and other government officials from civil lawsuits

Colorado passes sweeping police reform bill

Fremont native to argue to U.S. Supreme Court

JAMES: Want Law And Order? End Police Immunity

The Supreme Court quietly handed down fantastic news for violent cops

High Court Won’t Hear Law Enforcer Qualified Immunity Cases (3)

The Cops Who Sicced a Dog on a Surrendered Suspect Got Qualified Immunity. SCOTUS Won’t Hear the Case.

Supreme Court Declines to Take Up Limits of Legal Immunity for Police

Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Challenges To Qualified Immunity, Only Clarence Thomas Dissents

Supreme Court Declined 8 Cases Challenging Qualified Immunity For Police Officers

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Challenges to Legal Doctrine Shielding Police From Misconduct Lawsuits

U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear Caldwell woman’s case after SWAT team damaged her home

Supreme Court Will Not Reexamine Doctrine That Shields Police In Misconduct Suits

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Ruling Leaves in Place System that Has Allowed Rampant Violations of the Constitution Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Cases Challenging Qualified Immunity

EDITORIAL: Here are three police reforms that deserve bipartisan support

Off the Cuff: Removing shield of qualified immunity

How Not To Build a Transpartisan Coalition for Police Reform

Court Rejects Qualified Immunity For Cops Who Shot A “Motionless” Black Man 22 Times

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Institute for Justice Appeals “Takings” Case To the U.S. Supreme Court When the Government Destroys a Home, Must It Pay for the Damage Done?

Republican Tom McClintock rarely sides with liberal Democrats. Why this issue is different

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Three Specific Ways to Fix Bad Policing

What is Qualified Immunity for Police Officers? These Six Cases Are Being Discussed By the Supreme Court

Supreme Court Weighs Qualified Immunity For Police Accused Of Misconduct

3 Libertarian Tips for the #DefundPolice Movement

George Floyd’s Death Renews Calls to Revisit ‘Qualified Immunity’ for Police Misconduct

New Bill Would Abolish Qualified Immunity, Make It Easier To Sue Cops Who Violate Civil Rights

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Fabricated Doctrine of Qualified Immunity Enables Rampant Violation of Constitutional Rights And Allows Law Enforcement to Escape Accountability George Floyd and Beyond: How “Qualified Immunity” Enables Bad Policing

Why police can violate your constitutional rights and suffer no consequences in court

Opinion | The One Police Reform That Both the Left and the Right Support

Death of George Floyd brings debate on qualified immunity for police misconduct

It’s Past Time to Examine How Police Unions Protect Bad Cops

Cops Kill Because We Gave Them The Legal Framework to Do It

Police act like laws don’t apply to them because of ‘qualified immunity.’ They’re right.

Legal immunity for police misconduct, under attack from left and right, may get Supreme Court review

Afternoon Briefs: Trump order limits social media protections; Texas court curbs mail-in ballots

Short Take: Stealing From Jessop, Still Fine

High Court to decide if police can enter your home and steal from you

Legal Loophole Gives Police Immunity For Destroying Woman’s Home

SCOTUS case highlights qualified immunity questions

Supreme Court rejects Miami mom’s bid to recover cash for daughter’s ‘quince’ seized by feds

Friday round-up

Can Police Task Forces Play Jurisdiction Games To Avoid Liability for Misconduct?

Supreme Court Brief

Supreme Court Will Hear Case That Could Let Cops Dodge Police Brutality Lawsuits

Supreme Court Accepts Case on Police Immunity From Lawsuits

Tuesday round-up

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U.S. Supreme Court Will Hear Police Accountability Case

Justices grant one new petition

Excessive Force Claim From Mistaken Identity Gets SCOTUS Look (1)

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Challenge to Police Officers’ Immunity in Excessive Force Claim

High Court to hear case on police’s legal immunity involving Michigan man

Supreme Court Takes Up Suit Over Bungled Soda Stop

Supreme Court to hear case of Michigan man beaten by plainclothes police

Relist Watch: 100 years of solitude

Will cops get away with taking $225,000 in cash and coins?

Owners of home damaged in 2015 police standoff in GV appeal to U.S. Supreme Court

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Now it is up to the Supreme Court to decide if police officers can steal from citizens and get away with it Police Stole $225k in Cash and Coins, and the Courts Said “Okay”

Virginia Lawsuit Over Civil Immunity for Police

After Almost Beating Student To Death, Cops Demand Legal Immunity

I was beaten by the police for no reason. Now the Supreme Court should give me justice.

Supreme Court petitioned on police officers’ legal immunity

Trump Confuses Nation With COVID-19 Address

Greenwood Village family whose house was destroyed by police takes case to U.S. Supreme Court

City Destroys Home Without Paying: Will the Supreme Court Take the Case?

Greenwood Village homeowner appeals to Supreme Court over home destroyed during police standoff

Leo, Alfonsina and John Lech

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Lech family takes their fight for compensation to nation’s highest court after police destroyed their house in pursuit of shoplifter Homeowners Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court in House-Destruction Case

Innocent Mom Gave Permission for Cops to Search Her Home, They Destroyed It With Grenades Instead

6 years after a man says he was beaten by undercover cops, the Supreme Court could hear his case

An Innocent Man Beaten By Law Enforcement Asks The Supreme Court To Give Him His Day In Court

Seeking Accountability for Cops in Brownback v. King

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Institute for Justice Asks Supreme Court to End Shell Game Used by State/Federal Task Forces to Avoid Accountability Innocent Man Beaten Mercilessly by Police Petitions Supreme Court to Restore Constitutional Accountability

After Undercover Cops Beat Innocent College Student, He Appeals to Supreme Court

A Michigan Police Task Force Is Playing Jurisdiction Games To Avoid Compensating an Innocent Man Cops Put in the Hospital

Victim of bloody police beating fights to hold attackers accountable

Can Anyone Win a Suit Against a Federal-State Task Force?

Michigan Man Beaten and Wrongly Arrested by FBI Task Force Does Battle in Supreme Court

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IJ Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Hold State/Federal Task Forces Accountable For Constitutional Violations After Police Brutally Beat & Hospitalized James King, The Government Closed Ranks and Is Using a Legal Shell Game To Avoid Accountability

Lawsuit

Taking on The Shell Games That Allow Federal/State Task Force Members To Violate Your Rights Brownback v. King

State-federal task forces are out of control

James King

The Government Says These Men Have No Recourse Against FBI Agents Who Used the ‘No Fly’ List To Punish Them

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Amicus brief asks that government officials be held accountable for violating constitutional rights IJ to SCOTUS: If the Government Abuses Your Rights, It Has to Pay You Back

Supreme Court Asked To Tell Cops That Consenting To A Search Is Not Consenting To Having Your Home Destroyed

EDITORIAL: Come on in, officer — and wreck the place, while you’re here

A Loophole for the Lawless: “Qualified Immunity” Must Go

Friday round-up

Does Letting Police Enter Your House Give Them Permission To Wreck It?

Qualified immunity is a loophole for the lawless

Idaho woman who says police destroyed her home takes case to U.S. Supreme Court

Shaniz West

Lawsuit

Institute for Justice Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Hold Government Officials Accountable For Destroying Idaho Home with Grenades West v. Winfield

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After police had a ten-hour standoff with an empty house—eventually destroying everything inside—a court ruled there wasn’t anything they could do about it. Now the Institute for Justice is launching a new project to ask the courts to reexamine doctrines giving government officials broad immunity from accountability Institute for Justice Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Hold Government Officials Accountable For Destroying Idaho Home with Grenades

Tear-Gas Grenades and ‘Qualified Immunity’

February 2020, Volume 29, Issue 1

Institute for Justice Takes up Case where Federal Court Ruled Government Owes no Compensation to Innocent Property Owner Whose House was Destroyed By Police

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National law firm joins the Lech family’s fight for compensation after police destroy their house in pursuit of shoplifter Homeowners Seek Rehearing in House-Destruction Case

Lawsuit

Lech v. City of Greenwood Village