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  • SCOTUS sides with officer over protester in qualified immunity case, reversing lower-court opinion

    03/24/2026 7:37:48 AM PDT · by Twotone · 18 replies
    The Blaze ^ | March 23, 2026 | Cooper Williamson
    In a case stemming from a protest over a decade ago, the Supreme Court delivered a decision this week about qualified immunity. The Supreme Court on Monday ruled in Zorn v. Linton that a Vermont state police sergeant is entitled to qualified immunity in a case brought by a protester following a dispute at the Vermont Capitol in 2015. In an unsigned per curiam opinion, the majority reversed the decision of a lower court, which had sided against the police officer's use of force in the case: "The Second Circuit held that Zorn was not entitled to qualified immunity. "We...