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... ... @@ -1,0 +1,62 @@ 1 +====Status quo qualified immunity defense can only be defeated by a clearly established constitutional rights violation. This prioritizes law enforcement officials.==== 2 +Hassel: 3 +Diana Hassel Winter 1999 Living a Lie: The Cost of Qualified Immunity Missouri Law Review http://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3402andcontext=mlr 4 +The threshold step in applying the qualified immunity defense is determining whether the facts the 5 +AND 6 +a way that decreases the amount of cases in which immunity is applicable. 7 + 8 +====My advocacy is that the United States ought to limit the scope of applicability for qualified immunity by removing the requirement of clear establishment for a constitutional violation.==== 9 +Wright: 10 +Sam Wright (public interest lawyer) Nov. 3, 2015, "Want to Fight Police Misconduct? Reform Qualified Immunity." Above the Law http://abovethelaw.com/2015/11/want-to-fight-police-misconduct-reform-qualified-immunity/ 11 +Instead, police officers have recourse to the broad protections of the judicially established doctrine 12 +AND 13 +to guaranteed civil and social rights. 14 +Prefer this for 2 additional reasons: 15 +====1. Procedural protections are necessary to promote rights. Even if we reform an imperfect system of procedural safeguards, we should change what we can to improve state accountability. ==== 16 +Delgado explains: 17 +Richard, self-appointed Minority scholar, Chair of Law at the University of Alabama Law School, J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Professor Delgado's teaching and writing focus on race, the legal profession, and social change, 2009, "Does Critical Legal Studies Have What Minorities Want, Arguing about Law", p. 588-590 18 + 19 +The CLS critique 20 +AND 21 +what we want. 22 + 23 +====First, The clearly established requirement effectively denies individuals access to certain constitutional protections.==== 24 +Hassel 2 25 +Diana Hassel Winter 1999 Living a Lie: The Cost of Qualified Immunity Missouri Law Review http://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3402andcontext=mlr (Balancing test is used in cases addressing due process of law) 26 +In some areas 27 +AND 28 + qualified immunity defense. 29 +====Reasonableness of inquiry questions stem from the clearly established requirement and give leeway to courts in siding with law enforcement. ==== 30 +Hassel 3: 31 +Diana Hassel Winter 1999 Living a Lie: The Cost of Qualified Immunity Missouri Law Review http://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3402andcontext=mlr 32 +Finally, if the 33 +AND 34 +constitutional violation occurs. 35 + 36 +====Second, Qualified immunity allows for police officers to escape accountability for use of excessive force. ==== 37 +Sheng writes: (Philip. Professor at BYU. An "Objectively Reasonable" Criticism of the Doctrine of Qualified Immunity in Excessive Force Cases Brought Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 26 BYU J. Pub. L. 99 Available at: http://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/jpl/vol26/iss1/5) 38 +In Graham v. Connor 39 +AND 40 + force cases altogether. 41 + 42 +====Ambiguous use of the clearly established requirement allows police officers to use excessive force with little deterrence or recourse. Qualified Immunity allows for the justification of violence. Both municipalities and individual police officers are unlikely to be found liable under current law. ==== 43 +Senkel writes: 44 +1999 ( Tara. Attorney in New York. Civilians Often Need Protection From the Police: Let's Handcuff Police Brutality 15 N.Y.L. Sch. J. Hum. Rts. 385 (1998-1999). http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?public=falseandhandle=hein.journals/nylshr15andpage=385andcollection=journals~~#) 45 +While victims of 46 +AND 47 +are exigent circumstances.237 48 + 49 +====Third, The clearly established requirement stands in the way of developing and protecting procedural rights. ==== 50 +Attorneys only take on qualified immunity cases when there is little risk of losing the clearly established standard. Precedent can't evolve in the status quo because of selection bias. 51 +Reinert: 52 +Reinert, Alexander Does Qualified Immunity Matter? University of St. Thomas Law Journal. Volume 8 Spring 2011 (Interviews with 133 attorneys in qualified immunity cases) 53 +Nearly every respondent 54 +AND 55 + their organization's mission. 56 + 57 + 58 +====Thus, procedural protections cannot meaningfully exist in a world where plaintiffs must prove a clearly established violation. Only through removing the requirement can courts develop protections for individuals. Consideration of civil rights stagnates in a world where attorneys have disincentives to take the most controversial cases. ==== 59 +Reinert 2: 60 +The data are 61 +AND 62 +qualified immunity defense. - EntryDate
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... ... @@ -1,0 +1,38 @@ 1 +Hassel 2 2 +Diana Hassel Winter 1999 Living a Lie: The Cost of Qualified Immunity Missouri Law Review http://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3402andcontext=mlr (Balancing test is used in cases addressing due process of law) 3 +In some areas 4 +AND 5 + qualified immunity defense. 6 +====Reasonableness of inquiry questions stem from the clearly established requirement and give leeway to courts in siding with law enforcement. ==== 7 +Hassel 3: 8 +Diana Hassel Winter 1999 Living a Lie: The Cost of Qualified Immunity Missouri Law Review http://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3402andcontext=mlr 9 +Finally, if the 10 +AND 11 +constitutional violation occurs. 12 + 13 +====Second, Qualified immunity allows for police officers to escape accountability for use of excessive force. ==== 14 +Sheng writes: (Philip. Professor at BYU. An "Objectively Reasonable" Criticism of the Doctrine of Qualified Immunity in Excessive Force Cases Brought Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 26 BYU J. Pub. L. 99 Available at: http://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/jpl/vol26/iss1/5) 15 +In Graham v. Connor 16 +AND 17 + force cases altogether. 18 + 19 +====Ambiguous use of the clearly established requirement allows police officers to use excessive force with little deterrence or recourse. Qualified Immunity allows for the justification of violence. Both municipalities and individual police officers are unlikely to be found liable under current law. ==== 20 +Senkel writes: 21 +1999 ( Tara. Attorney in New York. Civilians Often Need Protection From the Police: Let's Handcuff Police Brutality 15 N.Y.L. Sch. J. Hum. Rts. 385 (1998-1999). http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?public=falseandhandle=hein.journals/nylshr15andpage=385andcollection=journals~~#) 22 +While victims of 23 +AND 24 +are exigent circumstances.237 25 + 26 +====Third, The clearly established requirement stands in the way of developing and protecting procedural rights. ==== 27 +Attorneys only take on qualified immunity cases when there is little risk of losing the clearly established standard. Precedent can't evolve in the status quo because of selection bias. 28 +Reinert: 29 +Reinert, Alexander Does Qualified Immunity Matter? University of St. Thomas Law Journal. Volume 8 Spring 2011 (Interviews with 133 attorneys in qualified immunity cases) 30 +Nearly every respondent 31 +AND 32 + their organization's mission. 33 + 34 +====Thus, procedural protections cannot meaningfully exist in a world where plaintiffs must prove a clearly established violation. Only through removing the requirement can courts develop protections for individuals. Consideration of civil rights stagnates in a world where attorneys have disincentives to take the most controversial cases. ==== 35 +Reinert 2: 36 +The data are 37 +AND 38 +qualified immunity defense. - EntryDate
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... ... @@ -1,0 +1,1 @@ 1 +My name is Patrick Tolan. Contact me Patrick@tolan3.com for cites or what have you. If you need to find me at a tournament talk to anyone from New Trier (debaters, coaches, or that guy with the backwards baseball hat) and you should be able to find me. - EntryDate
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