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DC Circuit Creates New Immunity Rule: Supreme Court Grants Review

The court of appeals for the DC circuit, on rehearing en banc, overruled prior circuit precedent by holding that a civil rights plaintiff is no longer required to plead a government official's unconstitutional intent with specific discernible facts or offers of proof that constitute direct, as opposed to merely circumstantial ...

 

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