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

Press Release

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

Frequently Asked Questions About Ending Qualified Immunity

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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

Press Release

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

Press Release

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

Press Release

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

Press Release

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

Press Release

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