A Jackson County detective was denied qualified immunity in a lawsuit alleging he lied in an affidavit. Qualified immunity protects government officials from liability unless their conduct violates ...

A federal appeals court has rejected qualified immunity protections for a Jackson police detective in a wrongful arrest lawsuit.Desmond Green was arrested for homicide in 2020 after a suspect in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. K-9 Zepp is retiring at the age of 9. (Pierce County Sheriff's Department/Courtesy) A Pierce County Sheriff’s deputy who allegedly ...

Noting that a San Diego police officer and a Homeland Security agent were off-duty when they got into a physical altercation at a Costco parking lot, a judge said the police officer wasn't performing ...

OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — A federal judge says two Osceola County deputies do not have qualified immunity in a deadly shooting from 2022 outside a Target store. Judge Gregory Presnell explained in ...

FORECAST. THANK YOU ANNE. NEW AT SIX A FEDERAL JUDGE HAS DENIED AN IOWA MAN’S APPEAL PREVENTING HIM FROM SUING INVESTIGATORS WHO ARRESTED HIM FOR HIS MOTHER’S MURDER IN 2015, JASON CARTER WAS FOUND ...

A criminal task force comprised of multiple law enforcement officers was serving a search warrant on a person suspected of distributing methamphetamine. He had spent 15 years in prison for murder and ...

UP AT FIVE AND SIX. STACEY. AMANDA. THANK YOU. TWO DES MOINES OFFICERS ACCUSED OF WRONGLY ARRESTING A MAN AT A TRAFFIC STOP IN 2018 DO NOT HAVE IMMUNITY. THAT RULING JUST CAME DOWN FROM A FEDERAL ...

A federal appeals court has denied the claim of immunity for two Des Moines officers accused of wrongly stopping and arresting a man in 2018. Domeco Fugenschuh sued officers Ryan Steinkamp and Brian ...

The death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in May 2020 gave momentum to a cross-ideological effort to reform the legal defense known as "qualified immunity," which can protect cops ...