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Demonstrators protest against police brutality on June 11, 2020 in New Haven, Connecticut. Protesters hold signs reading, "Stop Killing Us," and "La policia no me cuida."

The Supreme Court’s Insidious Development of Qualified Immunity

The American policing and criminal justice system is a complex machine, soldered together from a variety of tools and tactics of oppression. By purpose, design, and effect, the…
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Second Circuit Denies Rehearing En Banc in Turkmen; Is Supreme Court Next?

I’ve written before both here and at MSNBC about the Second Circuit’s immensely significant June 17 decision in Turkmen v. Hasty, which recognized a cause of action…
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Are Cross-Border Shootings Heading to the Supreme Court?

Two weeks ago, I wrote about an important new decision by the US District Court for the District of Arizona, holding that the Fourth Amendment does apply to the cross-border shooting…
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Cross-Border Shootings as a Test Case for the Extraterritorial Fourth Amendment

Ever since the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in Boumediene v. Bush, courts and commentators alike have wondered about the relationship between the functional approach…
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Fifth Circuit on Extraterritorial Application of Fourth and Fifth Amendments

On the heels of this morning’s Fourth Circuit decision in the Abu Ghraib case comes another significant circuit-level decision–this one from the Fifth Circuit. The…
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