Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Taste of Qualified Immunity

From the Fifth Circuit, affirming denial of QI in a suit against a detective to created the false evidence that produced a wrongful conviction. The opinion author, Judge Don Willett, is a Trump appointee and one of the leading lower-court critics of qualified immunity. Some of that leaks into this opinion, where he offers the position of "this is all wrong, but we can't change it, only SCOTUS can."