Supreme Court officially passes on revisiting its 50-year-old doctrine of “qualified immunity” for law enforcement officers, despite intense national outcry over police misconduct and legal protections that shield cops from liability.
for law enforcement officers, despite intense national outcry over police misconduct and legal protections that shield cops from liability.has made clear that they are not prepared to reconsider qualified immunity at this moment,” said Joanna Schwartz, an expert on the doctrine at UCLA School of Law., a 33-year-old black father, who was tased nine times by two San Antonio police officers while having an acute mental-health episode inside his parents’ home in 2015 and later died.
While the Civil Rights Act of 1871 gives Americans the unambiguous ability to sue public officials over civil rights violations, the Supreme Court subsequently limited liability to only those rights that have become"clearly established law.” Critics say the standard is near-impossible to meet. Qualified immunity has drawn scrutiny from across the political spectrum -- and the Supreme Court bench. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and“I have previously expressed my doubts about our qualified immunity jurisprudence,” Thomas wrote last week in
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