Bean v. Reilly

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “an official-capacity claim is in substance a claim against the municipality”
• stating an officer’s determination is objectively reasonable if “officers of reasonable competence could disagree on whether the probable cause test was met”
• state legislative immunity protects a legislator’s conversations with “executive officers, partisans, political interest groups, or constituents. . .to discuss issues that bear on potential legislation”
• immunity, whether absolute or qualified, is a personal defense that is available only when officials are sued in their individual capacities

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).