Donato Dalrymple v. Janet Reno

How courts have described this case

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

• “Because we find no constitutional violation ..., we need not address whether the constitutional rights at issue were clearly established”
• “Once the government official has established that she was acting within her discretionary authority, the burden shifts to the plaintiffs to show that qualified immunity is not appropriate”
• “Qualified immunity protects government officials performing discretionary functions from suits in their individual capacities unless their conduct violates ‘clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.’”
• qualified immunity protects officials “in their individual capacities”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).