BREAKING: Merry Christmas to Disabled Prisoners!
No immunity for prison officials who beat a disabled prisoner up when he asked for a wheelchair van
We Won: Justice for Black Community Leader
No qualified immunity for officer who rammed Black community leader.
BREAKING: Public Accountability Wins Deadly Force Case
No qualified immunity for officers who killed 20-year-old.
Clearly Established #22
April 9, 2024—Presidential immunity, solitary confinement, and shenanigans out of the Fifth & Ninth Circuits
Our most critical case yet.
A police officer shot our client in the eye. A jury said she was owed a million dollars. And then the judge took it away.
Clearly Established #21
March 24, 2023—Bivens, Feres, RFRA, and, of course, qualified immunity.
This Thanksgiving, We’re Grateful for Your Support
Here’s what we’ve been doing with your help.
Clearly Established #20
Week of September 16, 2022—Two merits briefs, plus our usual roundup of accountability decisions.
Clearly Established #19
Week of August 5, 2022—Qualified immunity, standing, mootness, Bivens, and the Heck bar.
Clearly Established #18
Week of July 8, 2022—Bivens, free exercise, takings, “good faith” immunity, and a SWATting.
Clearly Established #17
Week of May 26, 2022—Bivens, qualified immunity, and several interesting concurrences and dissents.
Clearly Established #16
Week of April 8, 2022—qualified immunity, two kinds of absolute immunity, the Heck bar, and more.
We just won our first appeal.
No qualified immunity for a cop who gratuitously pepper-sprayed a protester.
Clearly Established #15
Week of March 11, 2022—four different types of immunities, the PLRA, Bivens, and more. Plus: Our first oral argument!
Clearly Established #14
Week of February 18, 2022—Search warrants, flow charts, and a jailhouse suicide.
Clearly Established #12
Week of February 4, 2022—Jurisdictional issues, the Heck bar, sovereign immunity, and more in this bumper issue.