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A nonprofit civil-rights law firm. We work nationwide to hold police and other agents of the state accountable. https://pubaccountability.org/
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At @pubaccountability.org we are always accepting donations and ALWAYS fighting against law enforcement’s abuses of our rights!!! pubaccountability.org/donate

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

NEW from @pubaccountability.org: The federal govt is trying to sneak qualified immunity into the FTCA. We teamed up with @aclu.org and @cato.org to tell the Supreme Court: Hell no, the federal government can’t have qualified immunity. Read our amicus brief here: pubaccountability.org/s/2025031413...

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

"Our victory in Fagon preserves an important boundary: Interlocutory appeals of qualified-immunity denials must be limited to purely legal arguments—or risk being dismissed outright."

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

At @pubaccountability.org we do really great work that I frankly can’t believe I get paid to do—please help keep us paid!!! Your dollar counts double today!!!!!

submitted 138 days ago • 0 comments

Hi folks—this is a personal appeal to consider donating to @pubaccountability.org before the end of year. We’re about $2,500 towards our $10,000 end-of-year matching goal. Holding government to account is going to be so important with the new administration. Please consider investing in our work.

submitted 138 days ago • 1 comment

This Giving Tuesday, help us hold the government to account. We're fighting hard against qualified immunity. We're opening up new practice areas and expanding our staff. We're winning. And we can't do any of it without your help. So if you can, consider investing in our work today.

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

This Giving Tuesday, give the gift of accountability. (We’re still workshopping the email.) pubaccountability.org/donate

submitted 172 days ago • 0 comments

This year, for my birthday, I gave myself (drumroll, please) my first SCOTUS brief! On behalf of @pubaccountability.org & Cato Institute. The Fifth Circuit asserted jurisdiction over a routine discovery order because ~qualified immunity~. We argued that's bananas—& also that QI should be overruled.

submitted 200 days ago • 4 comments

Holy shit, the Supreme Court just summarily reversed the Fifth Circuit for *granting* qualified immunity. This is a huge deal.

submitted 215 days ago • 15 comments

Some coverage of our win yesterday.

submitted 243 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: We just won a case against a cop who shot a student protester in the eye. He lost at trial but the court set the verdict aside and gave him qualified immunity. This morning, the Ninth Circuit reversed. It said the district court should not have “nullified the jury’s verdict in this case.”

submitted 244 days ago • 2 comments

I'll be presenting oral argument tomorrow in the Oregon Supreme Court on whether indigent defendants who have been denied a public defender can ask the courts for a remedy. It'll be at 1:30 p.m. PT. There should be a livestream here: www.courts.oregon.gov/courts/appel... Read more on our case page:

submitted 249 days ago • 4 comments

Oh hey, that's our cue. Check out our recent work!

submitted 266 days ago • 1 comment

Latest issue of our newsletter is out! Check it out and read more about our recent Bivens victory (you read that right) and also the other cases we've been working on lately.

submitted 268 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Public Accountability just won a Bivens case in the Ninth Circuit. The Court held that federal prisoners can still sue for inadequate medical treatment. This is a pretty big deal—courts around the country have been rejecting Bivens claims. This is one of the few decisions going the other way.

submitted 275 days ago • 4 comments

New issue of Clearly Established is out! It's been a while [read: over a year] since our last issue, so the crop of cases this time is extra spicy. Read all about how our federal courts have been shielding the police and other agents of the state from accountability—

submitted 404 days ago • 0 comments

It's been a busy year here at Public Accountability. In the last 12 months we've served more clients, won more cases, and advanced the cause of public accountability more than ever before. Read all about it in the latest issue of our newsletter—

submitted 521 days ago • 0 comments

You thought qualified immunity was bad? Meet its bigger, badder cousin: Absolute immunity for federal agents. Great reporting from @lawrencehurley.bsky.social

submitted 548 days ago • 2 comments

A cop shot Elea in the eye with a rubber bullet. He damaged her vision forever & ended her athletic career. A jury awarded her $1m in damages. And then a judge gave him qualified immunity. This week, we filed our opening brief on appeal. More on that & other recent work in our latest newsletter.

submitted 583 days ago • 0 comments

Extremely troubling new Bivens case from the Ninth Circuit. Bivens claims are nearly always "dead on arrival." (As you can see, our ED is taking it in stride.) https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2023/08/15/20-55004.pdf

submitted 641 days ago • 0 comments

We notched a big win for free speech in Newberg, OR. Far-right extremists took over the school board, banned BLM and Pride, and sued constituents who organized against them. Turns out: It's not reasonable for public officials to feel harassed when subjected to public scrutiny. Anti-SLAPPed!

submitted 681 days ago • 3 comments

We're on Bluesky! Follow us for updates on our cases, where we hold agents of the state accountable for misconduct. We also put out a pretty funny, if somewhat sporadic, newsletter with updates on qualified immunity, Bivens, and other accountability doctrines.

submitted 696 days ago • 0 comments