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"Our victory in Fagon preserves an important boundary: Interlocutory appeals of qualified-immunity denials must be limited to purely legal arguments—or risk being dismissed outright."

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The Supreme Court routinely sumrevs *denials* of qualified immunity, but almost never reverses grants. Lower courts got the message: Always grant QI. Reversing a *grant* of QI—and summarily, at that—is a huge course correction.

Holy shit, the Supreme Court just summarily reversed the Fifth Circuit for *granting* qualified immunity. This is a huge deal.

Some coverage of our win yesterday.

NEW: We just won a case against a cop who shot a student protester in the eye. He lost at trial but the court set the verdict aside and gave him qualified immunity. This morning, the Ninth Circuit reversed. It said the district court should not have “nullified the jury’s verdict in this case.”

Oh hey, that's our cue. Check out our recent work!

New issue of Clearly Established is out! It's been a while [read: over a year] since our last issue, so the crop of cases this time is extra spicy. Read all about how our federal courts have been shielding the police and other agents of the state from accountability—

A cop shot Elea in the eye with a rubber bullet. He damaged her vision forever & ended her athletic career. A jury awarded her $1m in damages. And then a judge gave him qualified immunity. This week, we filed our opening brief on appeal. More on that & other recent work in our latest newsletter.

Extremely troubling new Bivens case from the Ninth Circuit. Bivens claims are nearly always "dead on arrival." (As you can see, our ED is taking it in stride.) https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2023/08/15/20-55004.pdf

We notched a big win for free speech in Newberg, OR. Far-right extremists took over the school board, banned BLM and Pride, and sued constituents who organized against them. Turns out: It's not reasonable for public officials to feel harassed when subjected to public scrutiny. Anti-SLAPPed!

We're on Bluesky! Follow us for updates on our cases, where we hold agents of the state accountable for misconduct. We also put out a pretty funny, if somewhat sporadic, newsletter with updates on qualified immunity, Bivens, and other accountability doctrines.