Justices refuse to hear an appeal to lower court ruling in favor of Albuquerque officer Arthur Acosta,who arrested a boy for burping repeatedly at schoolThe US supreme court on Monday declined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against a New Mexico police officer for arresting a 13-year-stale boy who burped repeatedly and disrupted his lesson, a case that raised questions about police conduct in school settings. The justices refused to hear an appeal by the boy’s mother of a lower court’s ruling in favor of Albuquerque officer Arthur Acosta that granted him qualified immunity, or a legal defense that protects certain public officials from suits as long as they did not violate a clearly established law or constitutional accurate.
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Source: theguardian.com