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· 11/16/2015

Callahan v. Unified Govt of Wyandotte

Citations

  • 806 F.3d 1022
  • 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 19872
  • 2015 WL 7172922

How courts have described this case

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

  • “The law is also clearly established if the conduct is so obviously improper that any reasonable officer would know it was illegal.”
  • “When a defendant raises the defense of qualified immunity, the plaintiff bears the burden to demonstrate that the defendant violated his constitutional rights and that the right was clearly established.”
  • to prove a clearly established right, “the plaintiff must point to a Supreme Court or Tenth Circuit decision on point or to the clearly established weight of authority from other courts that have found the law to be as the plaintiff maintains.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Kelly, Hartz, Gorsuch

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