Imagine you're a sheriff's deputy and a detainee arrives, unresponsive and moving slowly after ingesting a large quantity of unknown pills. After a doctor clears him for jail, with a warning that any ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Monday, without explanation, the Supreme Court tossed out a decision that would have provided some measure of justice to the ...

NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit upheld a Texas federal court’s denial of qualified immunity to former cop Aaron Dean, who shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson in her home within seconds of encountering ...

DECATUR, Ala. (WAFF) - The immunity hearing for former Decatur Police officer Mac Marquette went into a second day on Wednesday as the judge heard from more witnesses. Marquette is set to go on trial ...

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 ...

A federal judge dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit against an Alabama city and three of its former police officers, but preserved claims against one cop and denied his bid for qualified immunity in a ...

A bill to rewrite Alabama law on civil and criminal immunity for police officers, one of the priorities for Republican legislators and Gov. Kay Ivey, passed the Alabama House of Representatives today ...