Ed Knox, an Individual v. Southwest Airlines, a Texas Corporation, and David Swafford Robert Hopper City of Phoenix, a Municipality

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• exercising jurisdiction to determine “whether a reasonable officer would know that his or her alleged conduct violated clearly established law”
• Explaining that the 23 strength of the appeal does not affect appellate jurisdiction and district courts may “prevent 24 potential abuse from defendant officials by establishing summary procedures to weed out 25 frivolous or simply repetitive motions.”
• “If a plaintiff fails to allege a violation of clearly established law, the court need not even reach the other issues presented regarding qualified immunity.”
• “[W]e do not have jurisdiction over an interlocutory appeal that focuses on whether there is a genuine dispute about the underlying facts.”
• “[W]e do not have jurisdiction over an interlocutory appeal that focuses on whether there is a genuine dispute about the underlying facts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).