recognizing that the United States Supreme Court adopted this more flexible approach in Pearson v. Callahan, 555 U.S. 223, 242 (2009)
How later courts described this case
- recognizing that the United States Supreme Court adopted this more flexible approach in Pearson v. Callahan, 555 U.S. 223, 242 (2009)
- discussing “whether under preexisting law a reasonable defendant official would have understood that his or her acts were unlawful.”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
JANICE M. HOLDER, J.,
concurring.
I concur in Parts I, II, III, V, VI, and VII of the majority opinion. I do not concur in Part IV of the opinion addressing whether federal or state procedural rules should apply to a qualified immunity defense because the issue of whether federal or state procedural law applies is not properly before this Court. See Fayne v. Vincent, 301 S.W.3d 162, 171 (Tenn.2009).