Qualified Immunity

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Making Wilkie Worse: Qualified-Immunity Appeals and the Bivens Question after Ziglar and Hernandez
Bryan Lammon
Bryan Lammon is a professor at the University of Toledo College of Law.

He thanks participants in a breakout session at the Fourth Annual Civil Procedure Workshop. And special thanks, as always, to Nicole Porter.

Qualified immunity is awful. It inhibits government accountability and precludes recovery for victims of government misconduct. But it’s not just the substantive defense that’s a problem.

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Making Mistakes about the Law: Police Mistakes of Law between Qualified Immunity and Lenity
Lael Weinberger
BA 2009, Thomas Edison State University; MA 2013, Northern Illinois University; JD Candidate 2018, The University of Chicago Law School; PhD Candidate, Department of History, The University of Chicago

While patrolling one night in 2014, police officer Jeff Packard noticed a car with a hole in one of its red taillights.