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Amir H. Ali

Amir H. Ali serves as Supreme Court and appellate counsel at the MacArthur Justice Center and directs the criminal justice appellate clinic at Harvard Law School. Follow him on Twitter @theamirali

Qualified Immunity: Explained

On the morning of Nov. 23, 2004, Malaika Brooks was driving her 11-year-old son to school when Seattle police pulled her over for speeding. When the officers gave her a ticket and asked her to sign it, Brooks refused, believing that she had been wrongly pulled over and thinking, mistakenly, that her signature would be […]

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Qualified Immunity: Explained

On the morning of Nov. 23, 2004, Malaika Brooks was driving her 11-year-old son to school when Seattle police pulled her over for speeding. When the officers gave her a ticket and asked her to sign it, Brooks refused, believing that she had been wrongly pulled over and thinking, mistakenly, that her signature would be an admission […]

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