Clampet v. Koppelman

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the disbelief in a non-moving party’s ability to succeed on the merits is insufficient to grant summary judgment
• noting that the disbelief in a non-moving party’s ability to succeed on the merits is insufficient to grant summary judgment
• noting that in this Circuit, a defendant-officer bears the burden to prove that a right was not clearly established
• explaining that at summary judgment, a court “cannot simply accept the trooper’s statements as true given potentially contradictory physical evidence”
• explaining that plaintiffs are not required to “put a claim under a special heading, quote the statute, or use magic words to make out a claim”
• explaining that qualified immunity applies when either (1) a plaintiff fails to state a violation of a federal right or (2) a defendant shows the right was not clearly established

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).