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- Title
QUALIFIED IMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTS: NOT MUCH HOPE LEFT FOR PLAINTIFFS.
- Authors
Blum, Karen; Chemerinsky, Erwin; Schwartz, Martin A.
- Abstract
The article offers information on the history, developments and significance of the application of the qualified immunity defense in U.S. Supreme Court decisions under the Section 1983 of the Title 42 of the U.S. Code. It informs that U.S. Supreme Court clarified the line of distinction between absolute immunity and qualified immunity in its opinion in the Rehberg v. Paulk case. It discusses the rulings in qualified immunity cases Richardson v. McKnight, Wyatt v. Cole, and Filarsky v. Delia.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PRIVILEGES &; immunities (Law); QUALIFIED immunity of public officers; ABSOLUTE immunity (Law); UNITED States Code; UNITED States. Supreme Court; RICHARDSON v. McKnight (Supreme Court case); WYATT v. Cole (Supreme Court case); REHBERG v. Paulk (Supreme Court case)
- Publication
Touro Law Review, 2013, Vol 29, Issue 3, p633
- ISSN
8756-7326
- Publication type
Article