Definitions for qualified immunity
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1. Qualified immunity

   In the United States, qualified immunity is a legal principle that grants government officials performing discretionary functions immunity from civil suits unless the plaintiff shows that the official violated "clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known". It is a form of sovereign immunity less strict than absolute immunity that is intended to protect officials who "make reasonable but mistaken judgments about open legal questions", extending to "all [officials] but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law". Qualified immunity applies only to government officials in civil litigation, and does not protect the government itself from suits arising from officials' actions.The U.S. Supreme Court first introduced the qualified immunity doctrine in Pierson v. Ray (1967), enacted during the height of the civil rights movement, it is stated to have been originally enacted with the rationale of protecting law enforcement officials from frivolous lawsuits and financial liability in cases where they acted in good faith in unclear legal situations. Starting around 2005, courts increasingly applied the doctrine to cases involving the use of excessive or deadly force by police, leading to widespread criticism that it, as summarized in a 2020 Reuters report, "has become a nearly failsafe tool to let police brutality go unpunished and deny victims their constitutional rights".

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of qualified immunity in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of qualified immunity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of qualified immunity in a Sentence

1. Tim Kaine:

   We definitely need reforms in the space of qualified immunity, but I, I am not in the camp that says, you know, we should disrespect police, we should reform police where police are necessary.

2. Alexander Reinert:

   That opens the floodgates to the kinds of force that officers could use while being protected by qualified immunity.

3. Jim Banks:

   Democrat leaders have a choice. Either craft a bipartisan bill by leaving qualified immunity intact or appease the radical left wing of their caucus who want to abolish the police!

4. Alexander Reinert:

   This case is an example of just how stringent the' clearly established law' standard in the qualified immunity defense can be.

5. Barnette Jr.:

   I think Terry McAuliffe knows that qualified immunity, really is hampering transparency in Historically Black and brown communities, it doesn't matter who's governor, we're going to still ask the governor to ask the attorney general to investigate law-enforcement involved shootings.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_Immunity