Qualified-Immunity Appeals

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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.