Qualified Immunity

Unshielded: How the Police Can Become Touchable

• Brandon Hasbrouck

T.O. v. Fort Bend Independent School District

Fifth Circuit Declines to Extend Fourth Amendment to Bar Corporal Punishment in Public Schools

Taylor v. Riojas

Liberian Community Ass’n of Connecticut v. Lamont

Second Circuit Declines to Delineate Constitutional Boundaries of Acceptable Official Conduct in Quarantine.

Kelsay v. Ernst

Eighth Circuit Grants Qualified Immunity to Officer Who Performed Takedown Maneuver on Nonviolent, Nonthreatening, Nonfleeing Misdemeanant.

Bryan v. United States

Third Circuit Holds Law Is Not Clearly Established One or Two Days After a Decision.

Zadeh v. Robinson

Fifth Circuit Holds Medical Board Investigators Are Protected by Qualified Immunity in Warrantless Search of Records.

Fields v. City of Philadelphia

Third Circuit Holds Bystanders Have First Amendment Right to Record Police but Grants Qualified Immunity to Officers Involved.

Milan v. Bolin

Seventh Circuit Rules SWAT Raid Based on "Perfunctory" Investigation Unreasonable.

Kelly v. Borough of Carlisle

Third Circuit Holds that Police Officer's Good Faith Reliance on Legal Advice Creates a Presumption of Reasonableness.