Law Practice,
Judges and Judiciary
Apr. 3, 2008
Individuals, Not Government, Deserve Legal Protections
Although no statute exists to support qualified immunity, conservative judges routinely rule as if it is a robust and broadly applicable doctrine.
Robert L. Bastian Jr.
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Whittier Law School
The Supreme Court is not supposed to make up law, right? When interpreting a statute, the court looks first to the plain language, correct? Justices do not superimpose their own values onto law by rewriting statutes, nor is anything as bad to a conservative as an activist judge, true?
With these preliminaries out of the way, take note that another qualified immunity case is set for hearing before the court: Pearson v. Callahan, 07-751. The cour...
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