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Taylor v. Riojas, 592 U.S. ___ (2020), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with qualified immunity.It was the first case in which the Supreme Court relied on the obviousness of a constitutional violation to overturn a lower court's decision to grant qualified immunity.
Qualified immunity. 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 ...
A sitting president of the United States has both civil and criminal immunity for their official acts. [ a ] Neither civil nor criminal immunity is explicitly granted in the Constitution or any federal statute. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The Supreme Court of the United States found in Nixon v. Fitzgerald (1982) that the president has absolute immunity from ...
Pierson v. Ray, 386 U.S. 547 (1967), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court first introduced the justification for qualified immunity for police officers from being sued for civil rights violations under Section 1983, by arguing that "[a] policeman's lot is not so unhappy that he must choose between being charged with dereliction of duty if he does not arrest when he had ...
More from Freep Opinion: Why are Michigan's Black leaders backing longshot Senate candidate? A second objection to the rule-of-law mantra — in my view, at least — is that it signals a so ...
Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), was a landmark case of the Supreme Court of the United States concerning affirmative action in student admissions.The Court held that a student admissions process that favors "underrepresented minority groups" did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause so long as it took into account other factors evaluated on an individual ...
McConnell v. FEC (2003) (in part) Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding campaign finance laws and free speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The court held 5–4 that the freedom of speech clause of the First Amendment ...
A financial audit is conducted to provide an opinion whether " financial statements " (the information is verified to the extent of reasonable assurance granted) are stated in accordance with specified criteria. Normally, the criteria are international accounting standards, although auditors may conduct audits of financial statements prepared ...