
Episode 176: The Supreme Court’s Qualified Mishap
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The Importance of Qualified Immunity
"We don't actually have a legal duty to protect you. We can just do it if we feel like it," he says. "It may be our job to protect people, but it's not our legal duty," the police officer adds. The case is called Castle Rock and involves a woman who had a restraining order against her violent ex-husband. He took his children from her home in violation of the court order; they died as a result.
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