U.S. Supreme Court
Mar. 17, 2017
Qualified immunity and Neil Gorsuch
An opinion which raises concern among those weighing President Donald J. Trump's first U.S. Supreme Court nomination is one unpublished decision upholds a police officer's qualified immunity from civil lawsuit.
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An opinion which raises concern particularly among liberals weighing President Donald J. Trump's first U.S. Supreme Court nomination is Wilson v. City of Lafayette, 510 Fed.Appx. 775 (10th Cir. 2013). The unpublished decision upholds a police officer's qualified immunity from civil lawsuit. Judge and now nominee Neil Gorsuch, in ruling against the survivors of a person police tasered and killed, came down on the wrong side.
The problem in Wilson, though, is more wit...
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