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Fourth Circuit Demands Particularized Right Under Qualified Immunity

In qualified immunity analysis, "[a] preliminary task is to define the
constitutional right at issue 'at a high level of particularity.'" (279,
citation omitted) The court cites one of its 1999 cases for this point and
does not discuss whether this idea survives Hope v. Pelzer; in fact, it
doesn't ...

 

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