Civil Litigation
Aug. 11, 2017
Appellate court reverses itself: State immune from hate crime suit by former prisoner
After first ruling California’s hate crime law allowed a suit by a former prison inmate to circumvent qualified immunity, a state appellate court has affirmed a judge’s subsequent ruling that the state is immune under a different code for prisoners.
After first ruling California’s hate crime law allowed a suit by a former prison inmate to circumvent qualified immunity, an appellate panel Thursday affirmed a lower court’s subsequent ruling that the state is immune under a different code covering prisoners.
The Bane Act, California’s hate crime law, allowed the African-American plaintiff to bypass the state’s initial defense of qualified immunity under Government Code 815. Los An...
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