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Ninth Circuit Reexamines Standards for Qualified Immunity at Summary Judgment Stage in California Shooting Case

by John E. Dannenberg


Amending its earlier decision at 240 F.3d 845 [PLN, June `01], the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit clarified the evaluation of qualified immunity claims by prison officials at the summary judgment state of a prisoner's Eighth Amendment excessive force civil rights complaint.


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