Category: Civil Rights

A denial of qualified immunity is immediately appealable under the collateral order doctrine, but only to the extent it turns on a question of law, not on which facts a jury could find.

A qualified immunity denial is not an ordinary pretrial setback. Because qualified...

A typical Federal Civil Rights Appeal generally takes between 12 and 24 months from the initial filing of the Notice of Appeal to the issuance of the court’s final written decision. This timeline is divided into three phases:

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