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Woodland Police Denied Qualified Immunity in Michael Barrera Wrongful Death Lawsuit

Posted by Robert JHansen
|Date: February 22, 2023
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Woodland Police Denied Qualified Immunity in Michael Barrera Wrongful Death Lawsuit

By Robert J Hansen Woodland, CA - The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that the Woodland Po ...

By Robert J Hansen Woodland, CA - The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that the Woodland Police Department and five officers who killed Micheal Barrera in 2017 were properly denied quali ...

February 22, 2023
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Supreme Court Makes Qualified Immunity a Big Winner This Term

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 06, 2022
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Supreme Court Makes Qualified Immunity a Big Winner This Term

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Washington, DC – While cases involving abortion, conceal-carry and ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Washington, DC – While cases involving abortion, conceal-carry and prayer at football games drew the headlines, the Supreme Court drew far deeper than that. In 2 ...

July 06, 2022
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Five Years Later, Barrera Case Set to Go to Trial as Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss

Posted by Robert JHansen
|Date: April 03, 2022
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Five Years Later, Barrera Case Set to Go to Trial as Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss

By Robert J. Hansen Trial is set for the civil lawsuit against the Woodland Police Department and five po ...

By Robert J. Hansen Trial is set for the civil lawsuit against the Woodland Police Department and five police officers for the wrongful death of Michael Barrera in 2017 after a judge denied the defens ...

April 03, 2022
| by Robert JHansen

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Qualified Immunity for Police Who Arrested Activists for Anti-Police Chalking Overruled by U.S. Court of Appeals

Posted by Stacie Guevara
|Date: March 12, 2022
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Qualified Immunity for Police Who Arrested Activists for Anti-Police Chalking Overruled by U.S. Court of Appeals

By Stacie Guevara LAS VEGAS, NV – The U.S. Court of Appeals in the Ninth Circuit this week reversed a low ...

By Stacie Guevara LAS VEGAS, NV – The U.S. Court of Appeals in the Ninth Circuit this week reversed a lower court decision an officer was protected by qualified immunity when he arrested activists cha ...

March 12, 2022
| by Stacie Guevara

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Professors Note U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Curb Police Immunity

Posted by Clarissa Rios
|Date: October 30, 2021
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Professors Note U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Curb Police Immunity

By Wendy Moya and Clarissa Rios WASHINGTON DC – The U.S. Supreme Court recently quietly shut down a coupl ...

By Wendy Moya and Clarissa Rios WASHINGTON DC – The U.S. Supreme Court recently quietly shut down a couple of cases which would have prompted the regulation of police behavior, according to Barry Frie ...

October 30, 2021
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Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor Dissents in SCOTUS Decision to Not Hear Qualified Immunity Case

Posted by Lorelei Olivas
|Date: October 06, 2021
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Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor Dissents in SCOTUS Decision to Not Hear Qualified Immunity Case

By John W. Hamm & Lorelei Olivas WASHINGTON D.C. – Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a ...

By John W. Hamm & Lorelei Olivas WASHINGTON D.C. – Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a dozen or more qualified immunity cases, including one involving New Jersey Police Officer Noah ...

October 06, 2021
| by Lorelei Olivas

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My View: A Lot of Finger Pointing By Leaders Not Getting Police Reform Done

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 25, 2021
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My View: A Lot of Finger Pointing By Leaders Not Getting Police Reform Done

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Washington, DC – One of the big sticking points for comprehensive ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Washington, DC – One of the big sticking points for comprehensive police reform at the national level was changes to qualified immunity. It’s a mess. You have S ...

September 25, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Civil Rights Organizations Concerned about Police Accountability and Senate Legislation

Posted by elizabethgarabedian
|Date: July 13, 2021
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Civil Rights Organizations Concerned about Police Accountability and Senate Legislation

By Elizabeth Garabedian WASHINGTON- A number of prominent civil rights organizations have sent a letter t ...

By Elizabeth Garabedian WASHINGTON- A number of prominent civil rights organizations have sent a letter to Senate negotiators concerning police officer qualified immunity. They fear current Senate leg ...

July 13, 2021
| by elizabethgarabedian

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Commentary: We Talk about Qualified Immunity, How about Police Accountability for False Confessions and False Testimony?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 02, 2021
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Commentary: We Talk about Qualified Immunity, How about Police Accountability for False Confessions and False Testimony?

By David M. Greenwald A recent focus in police reform has zeroed in on qualified immunity. This is an im ...

By David M. Greenwald A recent focus in police reform has zeroed in on qualified immunity. This is an important focus because qualified immunity helps to protect not only law enforcement officers, bu ...

June 02, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Letter: 54 Law Enforcement Professionals Sign Letter Urging Congress to End Qualified Immunity

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 01, 2021
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Letter: 54 Law Enforcement Professionals Sign Letter Urging Congress to End Qualified Immunity

This week, the Law Enforcement Action Partnership released a letter addressed to Congress calling for an ...

This week, the Law Enforcement Action Partnership released a letter addressed to Congress calling for an end to qualified immunity, a legal doctrine which says that police cannot be tried for even bla ...

April 01, 2021
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Guest Commentary: We Must Abolish Qualified Immunity to Prevent Further Police Harm — Especially for People in Mental Health Crises

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 22, 2021
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Guest Commentary: We Must Abolish Qualified Immunity to Prevent Further Police Harm — Especially for People in Mental Health Crises

When courts are forgiving police for tasing people who are covered in gasoline, things have gone very wro ...

When courts are forgiving police for tasing people who are covered in gasoline, things have gone very wrong. By West Resendes and Somil Trivedi On July 10, 2017, Gabriel Eduardo Olivas was having a me ...

March 22, 2021
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NAACP Petition to Supreme Court Revives Debate Over Use of Qualified Immunity for Police

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: December 27, 2020
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NAACP Petition to Supreme Court Revives Debate Over Use of Qualified Immunity for Police

By Julian Verdon CLEVELAND - The NAACP and civil rights attorney James Hardiman filed a petition to the U ...

By Julian Verdon CLEVELAND - The NAACP and civil rights attorney James Hardiman filed a petition to the United States Supreme Court this last week, claiming that the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals dec ...

December 27, 2020
| by Vanguard Court Watch Interns

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District Court Judge Calls on Supreme Court to Eliminate Qualified Immunity

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: August 11, 2020
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District Court Judge Calls on Supreme Court to Eliminate Qualified Immunity

By Jaden Jarmel-Schneider MISSISSIPPI – District Court Judge Carlton W. Reeves of the Southern District o ...

By Jaden Jarmel-Schneider MISSISSIPPI – District Court Judge Carlton W. Reeves of the Southern District of Mississippi delivered a powerful message condemning the United States’ “qualified immunity” d ...

August 11, 2020
| by Vanguard Court Watch Interns

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DA Boudin and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley Discuss Police Reforms and Explain Defunding Police

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 24, 2020
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DA Boudin and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley Discuss Police Reforms and Explain Defunding Police

The issue of defunding the police has drawn a lot of attention but also a lot of confusion. At the Commo ...

The issue of defunding the police has drawn a lot of attention but also a lot of confusion. At the Commonwealth Club on Thursday evening, San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin and Boston area representative ...

July 24, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Why Prosecutors Keep Letting Police Get Away with Murder

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 28, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Why Prosecutors Keep Letting Police Get Away with Murder

Real justice and safety for Black communities will require a complete overhaul of the prosecutor-police r ...

Real justice and safety for Black communities will require a complete overhaul of the prosecutor-police relationship. By Somil Trivedi Just one month ago, the world saw a video of Minneapolis officer ...

June 28, 2020
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Supreme Court Denies ACLU Petition to Reconsider Qualified Immunity

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: June 16, 2020
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Supreme Court Denies ACLU Petition to Reconsider Qualified Immunity

By Linh Nguyen WASHINGTON D.C. – The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday to not wade into the sticky subjec ...

By Linh Nguyen WASHINGTON D.C. – The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday to not wade into the sticky subject of “qualified immunity,” the legal doctrine that immunizes law enforcement and public officia ...

June 16, 2020
| by Vanguard Court Watch Interns

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