9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,
Civil Rights,
U.S. Supreme Court
Sep. 21, 2018
Unlikely bedfellows in the fight against qualified immunity
Qualified immunity, for decades the bane of civil rights lawyers associated with liberal causes, is facing a new enemy: the legal right.
Justice Sonya Sotomayor
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Qualified immunity, for decades the bane of civil rights lawyers associated with liberal causes, is facing a new enemy: the legal right.
Last month, Judge Don R. Willett -- a conservative jurist who sits on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals -- wrote a concurrence blasting the doctrine for gutting the ability of litigants to seek damages for constitutional violations.
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