It’s a new year but little is new with qualified immunity in the Fifth Circuit. Or is it? Easha Anand of the MacArthur Justice Center joins us to discuss a recent denial of qualified immunity in a police brutality case. IJ’s Anya Bidwell joins in and reports on a couple other developments that demonstrate perhaps there’s some “split second” thinking going on among those judges.

Timpa v. Dillard

Villarreal v. City of Laredo

Harmon v. City of Arlington

IJ’s Gonzalez v. City of Castle Hills

Easha Anand, MacArthur Justice Center

Anya Bidwell

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