Legal immunity, or immunity from prosecution, is a legal status wherein an individual or entity cannot be held liable for a violation of the law, in order...

immunity is a legal principle of federal constitutional law that grants government officials performing discretionary (optional) functions immunity from...

United States has both civil and criminal immunity for their official acts. Neither civil nor criminal immunity is explicitly granted in the Constitution...

Sovereign immunity, or crown immunity, is a legal doctrine whereby a sovereign or state cannot commit a legal wrong and is immune from civil suit or criminal...

Diplomatic immunity is a principle of international law by which certain foreign government officials are recognized as having legal immunity from the jurisdiction...

being immune from legal liability due to a special status Absolute immunity, a type of immunity for government officials that confers total immunity when...

Parliamentary immunity, also known as legislative immunity, is a system in which political leadership position holders such as president, vice president...

Witness immunity from prosecution occurs when a prosecutor grants immunity to a witness in exchange for testimony or production of other evidence. In the...

United States law, absolute immunity is a type of sovereign immunity for government officials that confers complete immunity from criminal prosecution and...

Appeal overturned the High Court's dismissal of Juffali's immunity, but ruled that his immunity was not relevant to the divorce claim, which it allowed...

rules of state immunity concern the protection which a state is given from being sued in the courts of other states. The rules relate to legal proceedings...

presidential immunity from criminal prosecution presumptively extends to all of a president's "official acts" – with absolute immunity for official acts...

Judicial immunity is a form of sovereign immunity, which protects judges and others employed by the judiciary from liability resulting from their judicial...

Total immunity is a form of legal immunity that is all encompassing and may refer to: Absolute immunity, immunity for government officials that confers...

the legality and legitimacy of amnesties in accordance with the multiple legal obligations faced by states undergoing conflict or political transition...

immunity, or immunity ratione materiae. This is an immunity granted to people who perform certain functions of state. The second is personal immunity...

Public-interest immunity (PII), previously known as Crown privilege, is a principle of English common law under which the English courts can grant a court...

first two years of his administration, Zelenskyy oversaw the lifting of legal immunity for members of parliament (the Verkhovna Rada), the country's response...

Parliamentary privilege is a legal immunity enjoyed by members of certain legislatures, in which legislators are granted protection against civil or criminal...

CBI probe by rejecting CBI's request to examine them claiming they had 'immunity'. UPA was defeated in the 2014 general election and with the incoming NDA...

bankruptcy judge in the case from granting members of the Sackler family legal immunity during the bankruptcy proceedings. The House Judicial Committee referred...

prime minister on ministerial appointments. It curtailed any president's immunity by making them liable to fundamental rights litigation on any official...

killed with most of his family on 15 August 1975. Immunity meant the assassins were immune from any legal action. The surviving family members of Sheikh...

Malaysia were passed by the Malaysian parliament with the aim of removing legal immunity of the royalty. The changes, which saw the amendments of Articles 32...

up in dismissals based on legal immunity. Paul Diamond, a district judge in Philadelphia, ruled that the company was immune from a lawsuit under the Communications...

enjoy sovereign immunity, also known as governmental immunity, from lawsuits. Local governments in most jurisdictions enjoy immunity from some forms of...

Diplomatic immunity is a form of legal immunity for diplomats working outside their home countries. Diplomatic immunity or Diplomatic Immunity may also...

the United States Communications Decency Act provides legal immunity to the operators against legal threats related to anything uploaded to the site. "White"...

been the U.S. officer who convinced General Douglas MacArthur to grant legal immunity to members of the infamous Japanese Unit 731 chemical warfare research...

the removal of López Obrador's state immunity from prosecution, in his role as Mayor of Mexico City. The legal and political process took place during...