Judges Clash Over Hot Pursuit Doctrine in Domestic Violence Case

Eight Republican-appointed judges in the Ninth Circuit criticized a decision not to revisit a ruling which removed the grant of qualified immunity for police officers based on the “hot pursuit” exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement.

“For the foregoing reasons, the panel’s decision is flatly contrary to controlling Supreme Court authority, and we should have reheard this case en banc,” Judge Daniel P. Collins said in a dissenting opinion. Collins is a Trump appointee. “I respectfully dissent from our denial of rehearing en banc.”

Judges Consuelo M. Callahan, an appointee of President George W. Bush, and fellow ...