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In 1994, the Presidio Army Base in San Francisco, California, was the site of an event to celebrate the conversion of the base to a national park.Elliot Katz, the president of a group called In Defense of Animals, brought a cloth banner, approximately 4 by 3 feet, that read "Please Keep Animal Torture Out of Our National Parks," to voice opposition to the possibility that the Letterman Army ...
After Dorsey's family sued, a lower court agreed with the family that qualified immunity did not protect Agdeppa from personal liability in the matter. That decision was appealed to the 9th Circuit.
California state attorneys urged the Supreme Court to review and reverse the 9th Circuit decisions that rejected a qualified immunity defense for the prison officials. "The facts of these cases ...
A federal appeals court ruled that 'qualified immunity' should not prevent a lawsuit over a fatal LAPD shooting at a 24 Hour Fitness gym from going to a jury.
Pages in category "United States qualified immunity case law" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
In the United States, qualified immunity is a legal principle of federal constitutional law that grants government officials performing discretionary (optional) functions immunity from lawsuits for damages unless the plaintiff shows that the official violated "clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known". [1]
In a 3-0 ruling, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied a Riverside County Sheriff's sergeant's claim to use qualified immunity to dismiss a lawsuit.
Hope v. Pelzer, 536 U.S. 730 (2002), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the defense of qualified immunity, under which government actors may not be sued for actions they take in connection with their offices, did not apply to a lawsuit challenging the Alabama Department of Corrections's use of the "hitching post", a punishment whereby inmates were immobilized ...