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District Court, E.D. California · Jul 6, 2026
immunity. … ’ circumstances would not have known his 24 conduct violated a clearly established right. 25 “The doctrine of qualified immunity protects government officials ‘from liability for civil 26
Cited 0 timesUnknownDistrict Court, E.D. California · Mar 10, 2022
Wright, 430 U.S. 651, 672-73 (1977). 5 “The doctrine of qualified immunity protects government officials ‘from liability for 6 civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established … qualified immunity.
Cited 0 timesUnknownDistrict Court, E.D. California · Aug 17, 2020
Ct. 500, 503 (2019) (per curium) 13 | (assuming without deciding that a court of appeals decision may constitute clearly established law 14 | for purposes of qualified immunity) (citing Sheehan, 135 S. … Holloway, 510 U.S. 510, 514–16 (1994) (holding appellate court must review qualified 14 immunity judgment de novo and resolve whether federal right was clearly established in light of 15 its “full knowledge of its own
Cited 0 timesUnknownDistrict Court, E.D. California · Apr 22, 2020
More specifically, defendant argues that he is 6 entitled to qualified immunity. Id. at 5. … violated a clearly established right. 26 Anderson v.
Cited 0 timesUnknownBuckhalter v. City of Vacaville
District Court, E.D. California · Aug 7, 2019
the right was ‘clearly established’ at the time of the 13 challenged conduct.” … Clearly Established Law 11 Turning to the second prong of the qualified immunity analysis, the court notes 12 that clearly established law must be defined with a “high ‘degree of specificity
Cited 0 timesUnknownDistrict Court, E.D. California · Dec 16, 2019
immunity. … can determine, based 8 on the complaint itself, that qualified immunity applies.”
Cited 0 timesUnknownDistrict Court, E.D. California · Sep 30, 2024
Third Claim (Qualified Immunity) 15 Defendants argue that Sokoloff is entitled to qualified immunity on Plaintiff’s third claim 16 for relief alleging violation of her right to intimate association … .3 (Doc. 20 at 18-19.) 17 “Government officials enjoy qualified immunity from civil damages unless their conduct 18 violates ‘clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person
Cited 0 timesUnknownIslands, Inc. v. United States Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior
64 F. Supp. 2d 966 · District Court, E.D. California · Mar 11, 1999
The CVPIA established the Central Valley Project Restoration Fund (“Fund”) “to provide funding from project beneficiaries for habitat restoration, improvement and acquisition, and other fish and wildlife restoration activities … 59 F.3d 1128 , 1130 (11 Cir.1995): [E]ven assuming the water was released “solely for” or “only for” irrigation and other purposes, it was water contained within a multi-purpose federal flood control project, and James clearly
Cited 4 timesPublishedDistrict Court, E.D. California · Aug 16, 2024
light of the legal rules that were ‘clearly established’ at the time it 8 was taken.” … immunity for some other reason, such as because the law Defendant Phelan allegedly violated was not “clearly established.”
Cited 0 timesUnknown235 F. Supp. 2d 1085 · District Court, E.D. California · Mar 29, 2001
Crabtree, supra, 100 F.3d at 665 (“[t]he Bureau’s endowment of broad discretion does not immunize its decisions from judicial review.... ”). … To this end, the BOP adopted Program Statement 5330.10 which states that to qualify for the RDAP an inmate must be diagnosed according to the DSM-IV.
Cited 5 timesPublishedDistrict Court, E.D. California · Jul 14, 2021
immunity on summary judgment, focusing on the second step of the qualified immunity 16 analysis, namely, whether it was “clearly established” at the time of the conduct that defendant’s 17 actions violated plaintiff’ … However, even in the context of qualified immunity, the court must always 2 view the disputed evidence in the light most favorable to the non-moving party. Tolan v.
Cited 0 timesUnknownDistrict Court, E.D. California · Dec 13, 2024
to Plaintiff’s safety needs and that he is entitled to qualified immunity. … Qualified immunity 3 Fagundes also argues that he is entitled to qualified immunity because Plaintiff has 4 failed “to point to case law showing that the right was clearly defined
Cited 0 timesUnknownDistrict Court, E.D. California · Jun 27, 2022
Granting summary judgment on 18 the ground of qualified immunity is “improper if, under the plaintiff's version of the facts, and in 19 light of the clearly established law, a reasonable officer could not have believed … qualified immunity.
Cited 0 timesUnknownDistrict Court, E.D. California · Mar 11, 2024
See Demers v. 17 Austin, 746 F.3d 402, 417 (9th Cir. 2014) (“Qualified immunity of course does not preclude 18 injunctive relief.”). … clearly established law.”
Cited 0 timesUnknownDistrict Court, E.D. California · Jun 27, 2024
The doctrine of qualified immunity “protects government officials from ‘liability for 7 civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or 8 constitutional rights of which a reasonable … The qualified immunity 10 analysis involves two parts, determining whether (1) the facts that a plaintiff has alleged or shown 11 make out a violation of a constitutional right; and (2) the right at issue was clearly
Cited 0 timesUnknownDistrict Court, E.D. California · Sep 17, 2025
Qualified immunity protects government officials from civil liability where “their conduct 5 does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person 6 would have known.” … A 7 defendant is entitled to qualified immunity “unless a plaintiff pleads facts showing (1) that the 8 official violated a statutory or constitutional right, and (2) that the right was “clearly established” 9 at the
Cited 0 timesUnknownDistrict Court, E.D. California · Mar 18, 2025
Defendants Are Entitled to Qualified Immunity 25 Lastly, Defendants contend they are entitled to qualified immunity. … Even if the plaintiff has alleged a 15 violation of a clearly established right, the official is protected by qualified immunity if he 16 “reasonably but mistakenly believed that his . . . conduct did not violate that
Cited 0 timesUnknownDistrict Court, E.D. California · Aug 30, 2019
right, but that right was not 11 clearly established by law. … or defendants violated his Eighth Amendment rights. 19 That determination would both establish that a defendant is entitled to qualified immunity and 20 further establish that plaintiff has failed to state a claim for
Cited 0 timesUnknownDistrict Court, E.D. California · Sep 15, 2023
Qualified Immunity 17 Defendant contends he is entitled to qualified immunity against Plaintiff’s claims. (ECF 18 No. 38-1 at 10.) … established at the time of the violation. 8 Accordingly, Defendant is not entitled to qualified immunity at this stage of proceedings. 9 IV.
Cited 0 timesUnknownDistrict Court, E.D. California · Sep 29, 2021
Qualified Immunity 26 A defendant is entitled to “qualified immunity if one of two conditions are met. … First, 27 immunity will be applied if the plaintiff has not ‘alleged’ . . . facts that would make out a 1 is entitled to qualified immunity if the constitutional right allegedly violated was not ‘“clearly 2 established
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