Andrew Youngblood v. the State of Texas

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• recognizing that “a district court cannot avoid ruling on the merits of a qualified immunity defense when it can resolve the purely legal question of whether a defendant’s conduct, as alleged by plaintiff, violates clearly established law”
• the qualified immunity analysis “can only proceed after the court determines that a defendant is entitled to assert qualified immunity in the first instance”

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