Civil Rights,
Constitutional Law,
Government,
U.S. Supreme Court
Apr. 11, 2018
Qualified immunity has gone too far
A recent ruling is only the latest accretion in the U.S. Supreme Court’s application of legal doctrine entirely unhinged from constitutional and statutory moorings.
Robert L. Bastian Jr.
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The U.S. Supreme Court's recent per curiam opinion in Kisela v. Hughes, 138 S. Ct. 1148 (2018), is only the latest accretion in the court's application of legal doctrine entirely unhinged from constitutional and statutory moorings. The ruling excused four bullets a University of Arizona police corporal pumped into a mentally ill woman from behind a fence less than one minute after arriving on the s...
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