High Court Dumps “Provocation” Theory, Narrowing Police Liability

The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously rejected a “provocation” rule used by the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit that gave victims of excessive use of police force a way to overcome officials’ claims of immunity to lawsuits. In its May 30 decision in Los Angeles County v. Mendez, the high court voted 8-0 to overturn Ninth […]