Topic: courts recognize the affirmative defense of qualified immun… · Go Syfert
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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 13 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Gross v. Pirtle.

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1 Gross v. Pirtle Anchor
ca10 · 2001
green “courts recognize the affirmative defense of qualified immunity, which protects 'all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law.” 5
2 Trotter v. The Regents Of The University Of New Mexico
ca10 · 2000
green “must demonstrate a substantial correspondence between the conduct in question and prior law allegedly establishing that the defendant's actions were clearly prohibited.” 4
3 Roska v. Peterson
ca10 · 2003
green “in considering the 'objective legal reasonableness' of the state officer's actions, one relevant factor is whether the defendant relied on a state statute, regulation, or official policy that explicitly sanctioned the conduct in question.” 4

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