Confederacion De Asociaciones v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that federal due process does not guarantee prison inmates the right to “unfettered visitation, let alone contact visitation,” citing Kentucky Dept. of Correction v. 490 U.S. 454, 460 (1989)
• right to immunity from suit “would be ‘lost forever’ if an order denying it were not appealable until the close of litigation”
• right to immunity from suit “would be ‘lost forever’ if an order denying it were not appealable until the close of litigation”
• appeal taken from denial of “motion for qualified immunity” filed in civil rights case after discovery
• “Where public officials are performing a discretionary function, they may be shielded from civil liability in a §1983 action by the doctrine of qualified immunity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).