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24 Apr 2021, 4:35 am by SHG
Schwartz, a professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles and an expert in qualified immunity. [read post]
18 Mar 2021, 7:46 am by Alexander A. Reinert
It should come as no surprise, then, that the Supreme Court’s treatment of qualified immunity has had an overriding impact on perceptions of the importance of the defense, both among academics and practitioners (in other work, Joanna Schwartz and I have separately presented data confirming this perception and its role in how attorneys select cases). [read post]
5 Mar 2021, 12:49 pm by NCC Staff
The Supreme Court Is Giving Lower Courts a Subtle Hint to Rein in Police Misconduct By Joanna Schwartz, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law Joanna Schwartz argues that two of the Supreme Court’s recent decisions about qualified immunity—the doctrine that shields police misconduct from lawsuits if an extremely similar situation has not previously been ruled illegal—suggest that the Court may subtly be shifting its jurisprudence so egregious… [read post]
4 Mar 2021, 4:06 pm by Howard Bashman
“The Supreme Court Is Giving Lower Courts a Subtle Hint to Rein In Police Misconduct; And those paying attention haven’t missed it”: Law professor Joanna Schwartz has this essay online at The Atlantic. [read post]
22 Jul 2020, 7:38 am by Phil Dixon
., Joanna Schwartz, The Case Against Qualified Immunity, 93 Notre Dame L. [read post]
6 Jun 2020, 9:16 am by Nathaniel Sobel
The protests ignited by the killing of George Floyd have put a spotlight on the legal doctrine of qualified immunity. [read post]
20 Sep 2019, 5:04 am by Joanna Schwartz
[Absent qualified immunity, government indemnification and budgeting would continue to dampen the effect of lawsuits on government decisionmaking—but eliminating the defense could exert other pressures on government to improve.] [read post]
19 Sep 2019, 5:02 am by Joanna Schwartz
[Were qualified immunity eliminated, the total number of civil rights cases would likely increase, but attorneys would continue to have strong incentives not to file insubstantial cases.] [read post]
18 Sep 2019, 5:11 am by Joanna Schwartz
[Eliminating qualified immunity would decrease the average cost, complexity, and time spent adjudicating civil rights cases.] [read post]
17 Sep 2019, 5:05 am by Joanna Schwartz
[Absent qualified immunity, the rate at which plaintiffs win would remain about the same. ] This week, in excerpts from a forthcoming article, I am offering several predictions about a post-qualified immunity world. [read post]
16 Sep 2019, 5:03 am by Joanna Schwartz
[What impact would abolishing qualified immunity have on civil rights litigation, police misconduct, and government accountability?] [read post]
13 Sep 2019, 10:03 am by Eugene Volokh
I'm delighted to report that my colleague Joanna Schwartz, who has written extensively on policing and on litigation against the police, will be guest-blogging this coming week about her forthcoming Columbia Law Review article, After Qualified Immunity. [read post]
27 Mar 2019, 1:00 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
Science, Scholarship, and Policymaking Scott Burris, Temple University, Science, Interdisciplinarity, and Health Law Scholarship Kevin Outterson, Boston University, Bad Science Leads to Bad Legal Scholarship Joanna Sax, California Western School of Law, Consumer Perceptions of Risk in Various Areas of Biotechnology C. [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 5:53 am by Howard Bashman
“After Qualified Immunity”: Law professor Joanna C. [read post]
4 Sep 2018, 3:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Joanna Schwartz: How Qualified Immunity FailsJohn Jeffries Jr.: What's Wrong With Qualified Immunity? [read post]