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District Court, W.D. Washington · Jan 27, 2026
Love’s state law negligence claim under “RCW 11.110.050” does not establish federal 10 question jurisdiction. … Any amended complaint must clearly set 11 forth the “who, what, where, when, and why” necessary for the Court and defendant(s) to 12 understand what Ms. Love is alleging. See Fed. R. Civ.
Cited 0 timesUnknownLough v. Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
District Court, W.D. Washington · Jun 10, 2021
Motion to Stay (Dkt. 40) 12 In their Response to the Motion to Compel, Defendants move to stay discovery until the 13 issue of qualified immunity is decided. Dkt. 40. … Defendants raised qualified immunity in their 14 Answer and state that they are currently drafting a 12(c) motion that will address the issue of 15 qualified immunity.
Cited 0 timesUnknown46 F. Supp. 296 · District Court, W.D. Washington · Aug 14, 1942
By the constitution a government is ordained and established ‘for the United States of America/ and not for countries outside of their limits. … The Act of Congress establishing such United States Court for China, 22 U.S.C.A. § 191 , provides: “A court is hereby established, to be called the United States Court for China, which shall have exclusive jurisdiction in
Cited 2 timesPublishedLangworthy v. Clallam County Sheriff
District Court, W.D. Washington · Jul 23, 2024
Courts in the Ninth Circuit may screen an IFP 18 complaint before determining whether the plaintiff qualifies financially for IFP status, and a 19 determination that a complaint is subject to dismissal under the statute … (“[A] conspiracy between judge and prosecutor to predetermine the outcome 7 of a judicial proceeding, while clearly improper, nevertheless does not pierce the immunity 8 extended to judges and prosecutors.
Cited 0 timesUnknownDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · Sep 17, 2024
Qualified Immunity 15 Qualified immunity protects government officials from civil liability under § 1983 so 16 long as their conduct does not violate clearly established … right; and (2) 1 whether that right was clearly established at the time of the incident.”
Cited 0 timesUnknownNeal v. City of Bainbridge Island
District Court, W.D. Washington · Apr 19, 2023
other discretionary decisions, the City’s conduct meets the four-part test set forth in Evangelical 17 to qualify for discretionary immunity. … That motion is noted for April 21, 2023. 24 1 When determining whether a government act qualifies for discretionary immunity under 2
Cited 0 timesUnknownChristie v. State of Washington Department of Corrections
District Court, W.D. Washington · Aug 26, 2024
The Court considered their tenth affirmative defense of qualified immunity in its 2 order on Defendants’ motion for summary judgment. … In Plaintiffs’ reply, they clarify that they are not pursuing new 13 theories, but rather arguing that CCO Miller’s failure to convey information about Anthony’s 14 heightened risk of suicide breached DOC’s established
Cited 0 timesUnknownDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · Feb 9, 2024
App. 1, 4, 997 P.2d 932 (2000) (“It is well established that 9 a prosecutor who acts within the scope of his or her duties in initiating and pursuing a criminal 10 prosecution is absolutely immune from liability.” … Indeed, Plaintiff makes no allegations whatsoever regarding the initiation of his 23 prosecution, and he does not clearly identify and describe the different proceedings that appear to 24 have occurred.
Cited 0 timesUnknownDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · Aug 23, 2019
Younger, 769 F.2d 1350, 1354 15 || (9th Cir. 1985). 16 Unless plaintiff makes a two-part showing, qualified immunity shields government 17 || officials from liability. … The plaintiff must show both: the official(s) violated a federal statutory or 18 || constitutional right, and—at the time of the alleged act or failure to act there was clearly 19 || established law that defined the contours
Cited 0 timesUnknownDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · May 11, 2021
On February 23, 2019, this Court issued 12 a Report and Recommendation (R&R) recommending denial of defendants’ motion on 13 the ground of qualified immunity, and the deferral of defendants’ arguments on the 14 merits … immunity.
Cited 0 timesUnknown6 F.2d 237 · District Court, W.D. Washington · Jun 13, 1925
individual having any property rights to be affected, it necessarily results that the Legislature, as the representative of the people of the state, may withhold or grant to individuals the right to hunt and kill game, or qualify … It is, in fact, a property right, and not a mere privilege or immunity of citizenship.”
Cited 9 timesPublishedWhite v. King County Sheriff's Office
District Court, W.D. Washington · May 31, 2024
Because there is a factual and legal dispute about whether qualified immunity 4 renders Defendants immune from suit, and this has been adequately stated in short plain terms in 5 Defendants’ amended answer, see Dkt … to qualified immunity.”
Cited 0 timesUnknown18 F. Supp. 3d 1123 · District Court, W.D. Washington · Dec 31, 1990
United States’ Sovereign Immunity. … It is most clearly illustrated on Exh. L-25. 9.
Cited 6 timesPublishedDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · Jun 1, 2026
Plaintiffs now assert that because they are also 2 seeking reinstatement as injunctive relief, qualified immunity does not apply. … Plaintiffs have not 1 provided plausible allegations that Defendant Long violated their procedural due process rights, 2 let alone that those rights were clearly established.
Cited 0 timesUnknown539 F. Supp. 2d 1316 · District Court, W.D. Washington · Feb 11, 2008
Employers are free to hire qualified candidates, and the decision to hire a qualified candidate who happens to be younger does not necessarily evidence discrimination. Kuyper, 79 Wash.App. at 738 , 904 P.2d 793 . … Robinson would proffer that a clearly age-discriminate policy, implemented through a pretextual biased skills matrix, is extreme.”).
Cited 12 timesPublishedDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · Mar 10, 2020
entitles the officers to immunity. … It appears that the two additional defenses are merely state statutes that reiterate the 20]| federal qualified immunity defenses, and therefore would rely on the same proof already gathered 21|| during discovery. 22
Cited 0 timesUnknownMedicraft v. State of Washington
District Court, W.D. Washington · Oct 5, 2022
prosecutors 16 under certain circumstances or, in the alternative, to qualified immunity from Plaintiffs’ claims. 17 Plaintiffs opposed the motion. … a 10 declaration—when the same statements, had they been contained within the motion itself, would 11 clearly enjoy absolute immunity—would be elevating form over substance.
Cited 0 timesUnknown20 F.2d 247 · District Court, W.D. Washington · May 17, 1927
The plaintiff, as a general taxpayer and a holder of bonds issued against the light fund and the water fund, is qualified to challenge this right. … Clearly the question was moot. In California v. San Pablo & T. R. R. Co., 149 U. S. 308 , 13 S. Ct. 876 , 37 L.
Cited 2 timesPublishedDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · Sep 6, 2019
The plaintiff bears the burden of proving that the right was clearly 9 established. See Davis v. … Accordingly, all Defendants sued in their individual 3 capacity are entitled to qualified immunity as a matter of law.
Cited 0 timesUnknown698 F. Supp. 1523 · District Court, W.D. Washington · Sep 12, 1988
Congress sought inter alia to subsidize low-income families in the rental of existing housing under the Certificate Program, established in 1974, and the Voucher Program, established in 1983. … Clearly, Congress expected PHAs to retain responsibility over which applicant to select as tenants.
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