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Fifth Circuit· 2/28/1996

Cantu v. Rocha

Citations

  • 77 F.3d 795
  • 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 3225
  • 1996 WL 84638

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that the denial of state-law immunity is immediately appealable if the doctrine “provides a true immunity from suit and not a simple defense to liability” (quotation marks omitted)
  • noting that unlike the federal law on qualified immunity, Texas does not concern itself with whether a plaintiff alleged a clearly established constitutional right
  • discussing doctrine articulated in Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp. , 337 U.S. 541 , 546-47, 69 S.Ct. 1221 , 93 L.Ed. 1528 (1949)
  • discussing doctrine articulated in Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541, 546–47 (1949)
  • allowing an interlocutory appeal from an order denying Texas qualified immunity
  • awarding immunity and finding that Johnson allows immedi- ate review when the appeal concerns only \whether an official's con- duct was objectively reasonable in light of clearly established law\ in light of \a given . . . set of facts\

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Judges: Jolly, Smith, Demoss

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