It is challenging to predict how Judge Brown Jackson might rule on issues of importance to states and local governments as a Supreme Court Justice.
Continue readingSupreme Court Grants Police Officers Qualified Immunity in Two Cases
In two unauthored opinions, decided without oral argument the Supreme Court granted police officers qualified immunity
Continue readingSCOTUS Reverse Excessive Force Case Officers Won before Lower Court
In a per curiam (unauthored) opinion in Lombardo v. City of St. Louis, Missouri the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Eighth Circuit to decide again whether police officers used excessive force when restraining Nicholas Gilbert on his stomach for 15-minutes and/or should receive qualified immunity.
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