Discover the meaning and types of legal immunity, including witness, sovereign, and diplomatic immunity, and learn about ...

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The Fifth Circuit ruled that the TVPA does not waive foreign official immunity for a former Nigerian governor accused of ordering killings, affirming immunity under common law. On May 29, 2025, in ...

Anti-police activists and the press tend to reveal their ignorance whenever they discuss qualified immunity. Attempts to strip America’s law enforcement officers of qualified immunity are dangerous ...

“There’s a recognition by a lot of legislators that sovereign immunity as a concept is a fundamentally un-American idea," said Todd Michaels, a partner at the Haggard Law Firm. "It flies in the face ...

The State Department may have offered some form of legal immunity to Blackwater contractors targeted in an investigation into the Sept. 16 shootings that killed 17 Iraqis in Baghdad. The discovery ...

The Supreme Court passed a sweeping but vague ruling last week that gave broad legal immunity to U.S. Presidents for the actions they take while in office. Critics claim that the ruling (which relates ...

On Sunday, January 5, president-elect Donald J. Trump filed an appeal seeking to stay criminal proceedings against him based on claims of presidential immunity. This legal maneuver, just weeks before ...