Board of Regents of State v. Snyder

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a defendant claiming qualified or sovereign immunity would suffer material harm, irreparable on appeal after judgment, if the defendant were required to go to trial because the defendant could not later be reimmunized from suit
• recognizing that a defendant claiming qualified or sovereign immunity would suffer material harm, irreparable on appeal after judgment, if the defendant were required to go to trial because the defendant could not later be re-immunized from suit
• applying Pickering v. Bd. of Educ., 391 U.S. 563, 88 S.Ct. 1731, 20 L.Ed.2d 811 (1968)
• “[Wjhen the record conclusively demonstrates entitlement to immunity, it is a departure from the essential requirements of law for a trial court to deny a motion for summary judgment on that basis.”
• “[T]o obtain a writ of certiorari, there must exist ‘(1) a departure from the essential requirements of the law, (2) resulting in material injury for the remainder of the case (3) that cannot be corrected on postjudgment appeal’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).