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Next up, the Supreme Court will NOT reconsider a 9th Circuit decision denying qualified immunity to a police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man. Alito, joined by Thomas, dissents.

A small but real win in the fight against police brutality. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
JUSTICE ALITO, with whom JUSTICE THOMAS joins, dissenting from the denial of certiorari. To overcome qualified immunity, a party must show that an official violated a federal right that “was ‘clearly established’ at the time of [the] alleged misconduct.” Pearson v. Callahan, 555 U. S. 223, 232 (2009). This requirement ensures that officials are not subject to the burdens of litigation or held liable for conduct without notice that such conduct is unlawful. See Kisela v. Hughes, 584 U. S. 100, 104 (2018) (per curiam); Hope v. Pelzer, 536 U. S. 730, 739 (2002). Needless to say, a judicial decision postdating an official’s alleged misconduct is of no use in determining what was “clearly established” at the time. The courts below badly fumbled this basic tenet of our qualifiedimmunity doctrine by treating a later-in-time Circuit precedent as a basis for the existence of “clearly established law.” I would grant the petitioner’s request for summary reversal to correct this flagrant error
February 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM