It's a new year but little is new with qualified immunity in the Fifth Circuit. Or is it? Easha Anand of the MacArthur Justice Center joins us to discuss a recent denial of qualified immunity in a police brutality case. IJ's Anya Bidwell joins in and reports on a couple other developments that demonstrate perhaps there's some "split second" thinking going on among those judges.

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Timpa v. Dillard, https://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/ca5/20-10876/20-10876-2021-12-15.pdf?ts=1639614617

Villarreal v. City of Laredo, https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/20/20-40359-CV0.pdf

Harmon v. City of Arlington, http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/20/20-10830-CV0.pdf

IJ's Gonzalez v. City of Castle Hills, https://new.ij.org/case/castle-hills-retaliation/

Easha Anand, https://www.macarthurjustice.org/team_member/easha-anand/

Anya Bidwell, https://ij.org/staff/anya-bidwell/

Anthony Sanders, https://ij.org/staff/asanders/