Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard fears a wave of civil lawsuits if qualified immunity was taken away.Credit Steve Carmody / Michigan RadioEdit | Remove
A group of top law enforcement officials in Southeast Michigan are coming out against a push in Congress to do away with “qualified immunity.”
“Qualified immunity” is a legal doctrine that shields government officials from being held personally liable for damages so long as the officials did not violate clearly established law.
The prospect of changes to the law is raising concerns among law enforcement officials, who fear a wave of civil lawsuits if “qualified immunity” protections are stripped away. They predict the litigation could bankrupt local governments.
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The massive coronavirus vaccination effort to immunize Michigan s roughly 600,000 health care workers and eventually the entire population is in high gear as Pfizer s vaccine candidate undergoes a federal hearing Thursday to review whether it can be safely injected into the arms of millions of Americans.
In the scramble to stop a pandemic that s killed 288,000 people in the U.S. and 10,138 in Michigan, some metro Detroit hospital systems told the Free Press this week that they re mobilizing the biggest vaccination effort in U.S. history with so many unknowns that, in some ways, it s like they re flying in the dark.